MrHoatzin

Only rich people should be able to buy drugs.

I made a proper art. Donated for an art auction to benefit the nonprofit Sala Diaz gallery in San Antonio. All of the participating artists were tasked with making something with a bicycle helmet. Great Fucking Investment Opportunity Arguably NSFW or the prudish.

Ahahaha, fuck America.

Fellas, I think we're being libeled here by a tourist.

Hey children, do you know what time it is? It's politics & funny vid chaser time! This is what we in the history-remembering business call blatant class warfare: Via. Some good ole christian charity at play, there. eiOH6EcvW0c Dance, America! Dance!

Herzog was inked and the pencils erased before it was scanned. I just clicked through Herzog to see if there is anything that was done with pencil, and I am pleasantly surprised that it is not as bad as I remember it being. I tried Hobo Lobo with Wacom alone at first. It turned out I could get more interesting looking things faster with pencil. All the smudging and erasing and different graphite sticks with different graphite loads and erasers that do interesting things—working with happy little accidents—it's so much more intuitive by hand than in Photoshop, even after years of using Pshop for hours every day. I do some cleanup with the Wacom after the fact, very little, tho. And all of the lighter areas are painted in behind the line work with a tablet. All of the painting in Herzog was done with a mouse. I know, it's really great! I must confess, it is so much more relaxing to draw this than Herzog. Stacking things in three dimensions with no borders somehow ends up being less onerous and more gleeful-looking than trying to fit a whole little action arc into a dozen random-sized panels on a page. The monochromatic+ method I stole wholesale from the covers of Mourning Star. If drawing in pencil weren't so much easier than photoshopping images, I would be plopping more found images into the composition. A lot of the decisions about the look and feel of Hobo Lobo have been made with raw, unadulterated laziness in mind. And it is totally gratifying. Doing things that you enjoy doing (crazy javascript, drawing, limited color) really trumps self-defeatingly ambitious, unsustainable things.

When we update the forum software we should enter the land of UTF-8, the whole ISO-8859-1 thing is getting old.

Dreams end at dumbest times. I blame Scheherazade.

PREY 2: Butt "Would hit it." —IGN.com

Well, I can pretend! :tmeh:

He does lose his torso in the trailer, tho! :tup:

Thanks! Glad to hear it is enjoyed. As far as visual lushness, Herzog was fairly difficult. I still think we failed all the way through—with occasional success. We actually went back and redrew/repainted a bunch of the bad pages, but then never uploaded them. Plus they didn't really fit since somewhere near where we stopped, I had started using those micron pens with brush-shaped nibs which looked a lot better than the regular microns, but somewhat different than the surrounding drawings. We would spend all of every weekend working on it, long into the night. I always wanted it to be looser, more Dave McKeanish, collagey and Daniel wanted it more illustrative and uniform. Plus if I drew stuff with pencil instead of micron, the shading would get in the way of the painting, and I was trying not to muddy up the stage... but the pencils nearly always looked better than the finished microned linework. The bottom line on Herzog's level of refinement: too much work, impossible to keep up for the whole epic story we had prepared. Everything was moving too slow and the workload was not getting lighter. We actually just wanted to take a week off when we stopped, but then the week turned into FOUR AND A HALF YEARS (and counting)... So working on Hobo Lobo, I wanted it mostly monochromatic so that I wouldn't spend all night painting and I wanted to leave it in pencil because it looks better and we're in the future now and we don't have to accommodate ancient printing techniques that demanded sharp linework. I threw out the notion of working for print right off the bat (Herzog was painted in pretty high res and down-sampled for web, the format was that of a standard print comic), though I am entertaining a Lobo pop-up book (like the card I sent to Toblix) or a series of framed pieces where I would photocopy the drawings onto transparencies, paint in the lighter opaque areas and make little light boxes. Either way, why bother with physical media? Nice though it may be, web is where everything is, why not use it for all it's got? Pull the text out, have it be searchable, easily translatable and dynamic. That way you don't have to fight to fit it in bubbles that take up composition space. You can do crazy things with javascript because the medium allows it, mix it up with animation when needed, etc. You can always think about print later, if you have to. It is the MS Paint Adventures school of web comics. It is the most exciting thing in comics today as far as I am concerned. Another thing that pencil does is allow me to fudge everything. Sometimes I don't feel like drawing a good hand, so I just scribble a a bit of noise or a gesture that fits the scene, without having to model it too much. It also hides the limitations of perspective and composition imposed by the parallax. I can't really show the floor and make it look good, so everything is flat and walls are perfectly vertical and facing the reader, and characters end up walking on the bottom margin of the screen. Lush surface texture makes it less boring-looking. And doing it with pencil as opposed to, say, in Photoshop, is a time-saving technique. Another thing we did with Herzog was promote it crassly and whoreishly, so when it died, we abandoned a good 10k regular visitors. I am letting this one spread more naturally, word of mouth through people I know and people they know. So far I've only had about 10 unique visitors a day. Could be better, but I'm gonna let it unfold organically. So show it to your friends, if you feel it's ready for a wider audience.

Man, looking at all those beefy dudes duking it out, it makes me wonder about Gotham's drinking water quality. Runoff from all that steroid consumption has to end up somewhere; all the men, women, children, pigeons, rats, fish, amphibians and assorted woodland creatures in the 20-mile radius must be super ripped, have anger issues.

Hey, thanks! I threw up another panel this morning. Like so: I've never read Dresden Codak's stuff, but I gotta say it is pretty gorgeous! I've been told by people I trust who actually follow a lot of web comics (Mrs. Kingzjester, she's a paragon of cruel objectivity that one) that the dude has some issues admitting to doing fan service cheesecake shots of his own characters. That low cut blouse is for utility alone! This gorgeous-looking character that has the same exact body type as that other gorgeous-looking character is actually supposed to look kindof plain and awkward! Here, lemme talk about how important anatomy is, and in doing so, draw the protagonists nude with carefully coiffured lady bits and articulated nipples. That moon shaped cut out of her panties (butt lovingly modeled in the foreground) is actually a handle, of course, for stone cold utility alone! That sort of thing.

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I think it may be a glitch... It may decide that it wants to kill you when you start mining around. EXPERIMENT!

I am looking forward to long waiting times when entering buildings and walking around. The snow is gonna be so worth it.

Please be more wary of drawing obscene blanket conclusions about the character of whole ethnic groups based on hearsay and anecdotal evidence.

Even though it is probably true and easier to justify than the art hoopla. Art is a waste of time after all. Breathing is a waste of time for some (most?) people.

It has something to do with tasty *****. I don't really remember it. IT IS TRADITION, what more do you need to know? EDIT: OMG, ***** is still censored too!

Ok, so, humans are petty little animals.

There is something surreal about that last Portuguese vid, listing affected principalities and stuff. It is like a local-interest news story, as if they're listing school districts closed today due to snow. It makes me feel the same kind of awe in the face of globalization that the existence of Al Jazeera in English makes me feel... I listened to BBC World News on the radio yesterday and there was a clip of a press conference in Wellington where they announced that New Zealand has sent earthquake rescue personnel to Japan, presumably together with the Japanese search and rescue teams which were still hanging around Christchurch. It was a clip presented without that particular comment, or any comment from the journalist, in a collection of relatively disconnected stories about earthquake that blended with stories about Gaddaffi and the Wisconsin protests. I am impressed that the number of dead is not higher in Japan. It is a bittersweet triumph of modern engineering. Ditto that the whole world can at a drop of a hat send aid in whatever form. We live in a weird time. So strange that we cannot live more harmoniously considering how much we rely on one another.

I wasn't planning on doing it until maybe later in the weekend. Is git really necessary tho? Seems like overkill.

I have a psd somewhere, I can make it fit the new design. Will do that when I get a sec. Any objections to me editing the site files? Like, they won't be overwritten by your sync process or anything?

Hey, I really dug that graphic I made for the old idlemc, why did we knock it down?