God I took my sweet time finishing this.

Upon request, I changed the legs, but I really liked the original so I just inked ‘em both and worked some Photoshop on ‘em to make the two seperate versions.

I’m kinda partial to both versions, and may color them. But first, dinner ain’t gonna eat itself. Also, I have two hours to get the next HoD done. Drat.

Click for a slightly larger version wherein you can read my sloppy handwriting! Uncover the shocking truth behind my use of Photoshop lettering!

Hey, look at that, I can access my site again! Seems whichever machine handles my PHP was having some trouble… handling my PHP. Yay for the sloppy and decrepit way in which TENACITY was written, showing me that the problem lay with PHP and not MySQL (for once). Problem with shared hosting is that this happens more often than I’d like. The upshot to shared hosting is that when this happens, it is sooo not my problem. ^_^

Anyhow, colors and such: These are pretty much the final colors for this character, though her hair will be black. That purple was supposed to be used for highlights only, but I didn’t feel like fixing it last night, and I don’t have time to do so now. Maybe after work.

I also don’t forsee myself actually using the skully boots (with apologies to Aaron A.) as they’re a pain to get right and they would be, as seen in my scribblings above, “FER FANCY!” Normally she’d wear black leather combat boots, described above as “SHIN-AY!” Yeah, I was on a weird tack yesterday.

Anyhow, enjoy my oversight with the hair because it’ll only last for about nine hours. Ten million TIOLI points to whoever figures out what name I deleted from the image before posting it. Five million if you guess where it was. Forty million to whoever calls TIOLI on Friday and asks why I’m giving away TIOLI points. (It’s because the TIOLI guys cannot be trusted with responsibility of any kind.)

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This is the first character design for TNP. I’ll color it and post that later. Probably.

God damn I fucking hate Mustek. I’m looking for a new power brick, as I’m worried that the power brick is going to burn my apartment down or something, and they’re charging $26 for a replacement. Plus $15 for shipping, minimum. So I’m looking at $41, or to continue using the brick that sounds like a high-voltage power line when it’s plugged in and arcs when I plug it into my surge protector. Thanks, Mustek, you’re truly proving to be the king of the lowest-bidder hardware. God I wish there was any other company on this earth that makes an 11×17″ scanner for less than a thousand dollars.

Merry Christmas!

Color’d. You can tell that I got sloppier and sloppier with the shading on each successive layer. So very tiiired………

Full title: Tophat Jelly and Spearworm in: “Gone Courtin’”

That’s the last of my Christmas stuff, now I can see about getting that last one colored before I crash. I kinda want to watch more of Horatio Hornblower, but NHB Radio is rerunning the old “Fuck You It’s Christmas” specials, and I don’t want to tune out. So I may as well hit Photoshop until I pass out. Fun. Helps that I’ve got enough energy drink in me to power a fucking city. (Incidentally, this year’s Fuck You It’s Christmas special should be rerun sometime between now and tomorrow, and it wasn’t too bad, even though they didn’t play my NHB Idle submission. Turns out I should’ve sent it off more than a half hour before the show aired.)

Ah, there’s the sleep-deprived inability to shut the fuck up that I missed so. Hooray!

Updated some stuff, tweaked the CSS a bit, and finished the Photoshop tutorial. Also added in the Links section that’s been empty since the site launched. The gallery was also updated yesterday, and the site is just generally up to date now. Check it out.

This one goes to my parents. My back, fingers and wrists are killing me, but I’m extremely pleased with the way this turned out. Artists, take note: References Work. Though I’m generally opposed to copying reference material verbatim, the picture in question was really damn good. Been done half to death, but I still like it. Anyhow, since I freehanded the photo almost in its entirety, credit where credit is due. Pretty damn good photographer, as well.

The art is dated 12-21 as I hadn’t noticed that I worked past midnight, which is equivalent to working until six in the morning these days, as I get up for work at six in the morning now. If you read Brimzero right after I restarted it you might recall that I drank too much Monster trying to get a page up, passed out in the fetal position, and had the page finished up right around sunrise. This time I didn’t end up on the floor in pain, I think that’s a good thing. But I sleep now.