This painting I did from a reference photo of Rory at SiglerFest 2011 (that’s a little Krakens Tee he is wearing), he is sitting on a chair so you can’t see his magnificent tail.
I like how this came out. It was a lot of fun painting it.
Most of my readers will be familiar with the Geek & Sundry youtube channel, if you’ve not watched shows on it you’ve had your friends break out a new game they heard about on tabletop or your mother asked you about that steampunk thing you like that Felicia Day vloged about on the FLOG (because of course your mother is just that cool).
When Tabz told me to check out Written by a Kid though, I had my doubts. I don’t have kids, and while I like kids books and am a bit of a kid myself, I’m often less than impressed by projects focused around ‘They say the darndest things.’ This is anything but that. They interview a kit, the kid tells them the idea for a story and as the viewer hears about the story we see a visual representation of this story. Whether it be animation, live action, a mix of both, or played by Joss Whedon and Dave Foley, it’s always fun to see.
You could watch this with your child, or just on your own and get a lot out of it. Evil robot families, goth babies, a S.Q.U.A.T. team, half vampires taking out pirate witches, what’s not to love? In addition to the main movies/stories the behind the scenes videos are really interesting. Normally, I skip behind the scenes videos on youtube, it’s a lot more extra than content, but on this channel they talk about things that are interesting to me, animation, how they got Joss Whedon to perform, painted clothing (I really want to make some and wear it for real), different video effects and a Buffy Mustache.
Enough of me blabbing, go, watch the videos. Oh and it’s work safe, kid safe and everything safe :)
PS: thanks Tabz for being right again about something I thought sounded like it wasn’t my cup of tea but in the end was right up my alley.
Click to see the full painting, full nude.
I painted this painting last night, based on an image I found on tumblr. Yet now when it comes time to post online I find myself hesitating. Not because I would classify the painting as R or even PG-13, but because other people might. The internet can be touchy and since I have tried to keep my presence at a PG rating I wonder. So if you’d like to see the full panting, either click the thumbnail, or look below the cut.
I like to paint my figures with non representational colors, it lets me accentuate curves, shadow and highlight better. I chose this figure because of the smile mostly, which is interesting because painting an open mouth often looks odd to me. The original figure is dressed (and wow does she every look awesome/hot/amazing/sexy/happy/wonderful/beautiful/lively/heathy/fantastic) but I just loved her form and as I painted her I didn’t paint clothes. I miss painting from a live model, but thankfully the internet gives me many photo models.
Hey look at this nifty new cover art look, blame @encaf1 of www.theweirdshow.com
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A few days ago on twitter (where do you get news?) Some people within the design crew of Borderlands 2 were calling their easier difficulty mode, “Girlfriend Mode.” Since then there has been a lot of articles claiming people are over reacting, backpedaling and clarifications by CEOs. You can find the original article here on Eurogamer, with some updates.
I first noticed the story when @SunriseRobin (Author of Zeus, Inc. and founder/blogger of www.fangirlconfessions.com) was tweeting about it. Now i know many women who are great at video games, and many who suck. We all have our own preferences, just like I know many men who are good and many men who suck. It’s not a gender thing, but for some reason there is a big group of people, or perhaps a loud group of people who seem to want to put down women who game. Not only that, they want to keep women from gaming. (and there is also a backlash where women now are being expected to prove that they are action gamers and not just posers /sigh)
My reaction to this “Girlfriend Mode” was not to flame tweet, was not to call for a boycott of Borderlands 2 (Borderlands the original game is very good and I can’t see one designer being stupid as cause for a boycott) but this image came into my head. I was swamped with work so I asked Robin to remind me to draw it later.
I hope you all enjoy it for the fun it is meant to be.