Lazarus Has Risen...

Y'know, I think Lararus was in on it with Jesus.  And it was all  probably some sort of a routine they took on the road.  I mean, if Jesus was a flim-flam it would explain a hell of a lot!  The entourage, the whole water-to wine-thing...  Wait. Why am I here again? Oh. That's right. It's time for yet another installment of my art prattle. Let's get straight into it, before I go off topic again. (That's the last time I open with an obscure biblical reference... So difficult to segue into art from that!)

Starting with:

I did a bunch of these after I got tired of drawing all those people.  I'd almost forgotten about my penchant for little monster-thingies.  Sometimes you gotta slow down on some of the more "serious stuff" (I put that between quotation marks because strictly speaking, none of it is really serious, but y'know...) and do a lil' doodling.  Besides: monsters are huge and integral element of the FuZioN Universe.  It's a fairly good time to get back in the swing of designing dem' critters...

Speaking of FuZioN...

"Yeah! It's ya Boi!" (What did we say bout those Jigga quotes!?)  This came about when I realised that I hadn't really done the "new TJ" in profile.  So, after a coupla drafts, this is the result.  Additionally, I should mention that I adjusted his colour palette a bit.  His skin colour was slightly off (Too much caramel, not enough coffee) and, since there are other non-white characters with different ethnicities to TJ, I had to diminish the confusion of identifying who was what a bit more than I had before (not that that sort of thing matters, but if it's part of the character's identity, then the diversity has to be apparent.  I mean, ideally I'd draw an all-beige cast to try and keep racial profiling to a minimum... not that all audiences are racist, but we're all prone to our own prejudices and... Oh my god, this hole just keeps getting deeper!). 

As you may have noticed, I switched it up a bit with the backgrounds on that last image. I got bored with my usual layout and thought it was time for a little more experimentation.  Which resulted in the image above and...

Super Fighting Robot Guy!  That may or may not be his actual name, but it's all that came to me at the time.  As I have said before, I absolutely detest design, but I have a lot of respect for those who practise the art (do you "practise" design?  Not sure. Sounds appropriate...).  Bringing order and efficiency to chaos... In a visually pleasing manner... Not an easy thing to do.  However, I can't ignore the fact that I spent the better part of THREE YEARS learning the principles (I didn't get that far though, due to my extreme hatred for it) and so I took a crack at integrating it a little into some of my art (it would also be a good exercise in improving my Photoshop skills).  Hopefully, I haven't spat in the face of all muh designer pals with this little travesty I cooked up.

To my surprise, I enjoyed this a little bit more than I expected. So much so, in fact, that I did it again.

I almost didn't colour this image as I noticed that I made quite a few rookie mistakes when pencilling this- mainly in terms of anatomical correctness and cloth physics- but there was just something about that pose! That arrogance; that swagger (the actual definition of the word)! So dynamic! And the colours were so clear in my head. It had to be done. Also, I don't know don't know why, but this character reminds me so much of Captain Marvel (the DC/ Shazam one, not the bullsh*t  Captain Mar-Vell from Marvel that no one's ever heard of and who's name Marvel won't f#king give up, preventing us from ever seeing Captain Marvel in his own self-titled series or a Captain Marvel movie!), even though the costume or the colours don't even closely resemble those of Earth's Mightiest Mortal. Must be some subliminal thing...

And that's it for now.  I'll be back real soon with more madness.  QUEUE THE CREDITS! (I've really got to come up with a more organic way of concluding these posts!)