Friend of Friend

Al right.  So I won't even bother with any introductions.  As far as introductions go, I would say may skills range from competent to tragic, which largely means they never really dazzle (And honestly, they only ever  meander around the vicinities of apologetic and self-indulgent).  As such, the prudent thing would be to skip them, I think.  I have some time.  I have some art to show.  Let's do it(D'oh! How was that for an introduction?).

One of the curses of being an artist (or an aspiring artist, rather) is that you are inevitably asked by friends and relatives to draw things for them.  And while it never occurs to them that drawing is as much work as balancing a ledger is, you're always obliged to do it.  Sometimes begrudgingly, but you do it.  In this particular instance, I was relentlessly hounded by one of my good friends for well over a year. And after much dragging and procrastination, I eventually got around to it, using it as an opportunity to try and emulate something I'd seen on Rad Sechrist's Blog.  I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed myself.  So much so, in fact, that I soon followed with this:

Not only was I glad to do these, but I was glad that they were glad when they saw them.

Sometimes though, you're friends' creations inspire you to draw something for them.This character is the protagonist of an upcoming comic book series known as Soul Heir which will be, if I'm not mistaken, written and illustrated by THIS GUY. I honestly don't know that much about plot details and such (post apocalyptic type setting with an "Assassin's Creed meets Jak 3" type feel from what I can tell) but Haki over here looks pretty badass and I couldn't help doing some fan art. I took a few liberties with the costume but I tried to stay as true to the spirit of the character as I could.  Look out for Soul Heir this December.

Some fans need to calm down...

And every so often, I dabble in social commentary.  I drew this a while ago when I'd first heard about the DC Reboot and the protests that were going around. For the record, I'm not happy about the reboot either, but I just thought the reaction and some of the things that were being said at the time were a bit over the top, and it resulted in this little satirical (and hopefully humerous) piece. Weird how my mind works sometimes. I would do a lot more of these but, sadly, I'm not that funny (that I had to explain this a number of times to a number of people should be proof enough).

I should stop there.  While I'm still not posting as frequently as I'd like, I think it's somewhat commendable that I managed to beat the very neat five-month gap that separated the last two entries.  Catch you on the flippidy-flip.