I think I forgot to update this website in some time. I was a bit carried away with redesigning and reworking this ‘game’ of sorts, studying the River City Ransom sprite sheets. Added some CRT shader, a simple quest, double jump, better UI, and a bunch of other stuff. Wrote up some kinda manifesto for it, now I just gotta learn more programming and program it on up, no prob. Look up Heartbeast on Youtube if you wanna get into it, he has a sale on his course, which I am currently engrossed in doing: www.heartgamedev.com
Broudy’s interior, wip.
Rats for your liquor store
River City Reference
Best pixels yet
Old design had just too many pixels for me to animate, maybe in the sequel a fat headed baby design can be put to use by me. Or as a boss.
also, drawings and such
fuck up, get cut
This pic, was going nowhere slow. Now it can do so in pieces, cause… composition needed a severe shock, won’t fix anatomy tho.
Scanned in some for today too:
Honest labor at an honest wage
Skullhead again
Some more shading
Not much new here, but have you seen the news?
And a few more miscellaneous bits from the studio since I am here and not neck deep in “game development”.
I had hoped to draw more, but instead was consumed with scribbling down ideas for some manner of beat em up meets RPG meets platformer, ‘Super Double Zelda Dragon Ransom Bros. 2’ = BARF_CITY, and I cannot code for shit, but I hope some ‘charm’ will arise from this, can code be like ‘outsider art’, Henry Darger, but a game, that honestly would be a better game, just take his whole “The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion“, it’s all in the title, player characters, enemies, NPCs, settings, shit, I should have started with this.
$Timer.cooldown or was it $Timer.stunned.
All that said, this week I did manage a bit more hunching over paper and less hunching over keyboard, and hopefully some new balance shall occur, cause I think I get it now that this will not be done anytime soon, some dream of a balanced enemy vs player schematic can be found then built upon is probably nonsense.
Analogue Balancing Act
Still not done…
Barf City on the brain
If I had more time, sleep, hands
Nothing new to see
Proportions or lens angle?
Scanner glitch
Managed to make it in
Brush pen is super pen
Still. Something something, craft, analogue, traditional, plying ones trade, keeping the root system healthy.
Seen some real art
Big Poppa Cranach
Do excuse the angle on it, there was a severe glare, but I think you can still just soak this majesty on up.
“Work in Progress 2020” continues progress after its month or so break. Minor details, but figure it’s worth a scanning.
Go go scanner powers.
Looks better in a screenshot some days.
Three Amigos.
This hand is coming along well enough.
Bread, or potatoe?
Details….
This dude has been annoying the hell outta me
But he’s looking better now.
Archways getting tightened up. Also I got a brown pen.
Small Work in Progress, progresses as well. (All hail the myth of progress.) Some kinda crap on the scanner, think its some eraser dirt, but this work is not worth a another scan this week.
Pencil on some A2 paper
Pencil on some A2 paper
Pencil on some A2 paper
Miscellany stretches beyond progress.
Random photo found.
Never forget the basics.
Spent like 200 EUR at the damn art store for this?!
Working 9.6 hours a week is about as good as it gets. Remainder of hours spent awake are divided randomly across a few things worthy of exposing to the internet.
1. Spend much too much time learning to make a pixel platformer which now morphs into an actionRPG (it is the next tutorial in the list) and then hopefully if I can manage it, one day… a RiverCityRansom-esque brawler, in a 90’s TacoBell.
minuscule steps, much cuter than last week
He can walk and duck and jump and I can do so with my knockoff Xbox controller, all this on Debian (stable no less) Linux is quite something. “moonpiewhatatimetobealive.jpg”
I also made the little beer can, or what aims to be a beer can, its a tribute to “Natty Lite”, as this game will be set in a vague and very humid memory of Florida, and so, yes Natty it is. That said, I have not made it to the part where you can interact with any object, so its just stuck there for now…
Doing this by copying along to HeartBeast’s tutorials, very easy to follow along with if you have any inclination toward making something with Godot.
2. Return of the Glitching Wreckage.
i used to know what all this meant
I made this “glitch bot”, I wanna say… last year-ish probably, and it was good-ish for about an hour, than it got real stale like. I didn’t know how to really pull in some randomness. I think I could do a better job now, and that thinking is half the effort, it will require a day or so of work, but it could be something interesting and an excuse to sharpen skills which really aren’t even worthy of the knife metaphor in use there, more like continue effort to have knife like skills, right now butter is safe against these programming efforts.
random is just better
ziploc gimmie some money
no clue
fashion
Again it will improve, and bits of it will make it out to Twitter @defty_k
3. Are you still drawing thosepictures?
– Yes. Yes, I am afraid I still am drawing “those pictures”.
Ah yes, the finest waste of time imaginable, if you think your identity is a bit lame now, and could use that air of prepackaged creative free spirit, grab your watercolors, pens and assorted mediums and become an ARTIST.
How lame? This lame.
Trying to get back to this big one, the original “WIP_2020” I was so definitely going to make this year and have done on time and really for real just make a yearly pattern out of making such a piece.
Still think he is working out ok.
This mess still be grinded away at daily.
Eh…
Still, ok.
This hand was the crowning achievement of the weel.
Just fill it up with hatching.
UPID too.
GOFISH
And the new pencil work is progressing, not enough to be re-scanned, but enough for a solid lazy photo from my phone.
Sketching is better than reading the news in the morning.
Draw from life, its rough.
You cannot identify anyone I draw.
I could never be a cop sketch artist, cause fuck them snitches.
Ok now for the rest.
Scroll no longer.
No progress.
But post anyways.
Neglect visualized.
Mess, but one day progress.
I forget what was up here.
Same here, like whaaaa.
Again, hell if I know.
I can’t paint for shit.
And this mess behind the studio building ain’t helping. So much noise.
I can’t say I did much this week, I am not sure where it went or when weeks begin and end, the axis is skewed as of late, mostly weighted in a direction that favors me, yet it seems to slide into places unplanned.
I’ll just post a couple bits therefore.
some sketching was done today, but honestly, why?
get the stupid out
more to come this week on this i do believe
learnin to paint
sun fried eyes
As well I guess most effort went back into what once held the glorious title of “Untitled 2020”. Which once again is another piece which starts up with my usual ‘Man walks into a bar’ setup and I hope to wind up at a new punchline, the man in question is emaciated and has a deal about civilization and plans for wheat, and probably books on the best use and case situations for cages. “Great Man of History” or something to that effect.
More evidence that scanners are magical.
get some civility
this dude was surgically re-worked with my meat hands
*(Reading the above now, and the whole time I am hearing this type of insanely confident Dutch male accent, Dutch dudes are beyond cocky, hanging out by the Herengracht sipping beer and collars popped. )
Past week has been pretty much just one drawing, some bits of changes on other works but mostly i just did this:
The longer you look, the dumber it gets.
I used to draw just in pencil, I’m sure that’s kinda the norm, HB lead pencil in a classroom = drawing to escape boredom. But then I got into ink and it became a kinda default of work, a stupid expectation that everything will wind up dominated by this medium and balanced against it. But just working in pencil is so easy, I forget what a pain in the ass pen and ink is cause I have internalized its terrible pace.
Deets
when it was a work in progress
scan away scan away scan away
the transfer from the physical to the digital plane still blows my idiot mind
that smile…
Besides this, not much.
nah dunna think so
Supposedly I am taking part in an open studio day, but really? I don’t foresee letting people come in to my tiny drawing box and breathe their covidian breathings all down on the place. Usually someone comes in and just asks if it’s George Washington, snickers and that wraps up the human interaction portion of the day in which I play my role as subject in a human zoo.
All else fails, yellow works. A replacement midtone, semi opaque. Covers up the mistakes (kinda), people like color, and actually gives a nice Simpsons-esque quality to the drawing with a slight bit of the jaundice.
Maybe finished works arrive here?
Soon to be a syndicated show on Fox
Ideas? Yellow.
That Halloween special when Ned was the devil
Then I done blew his face off.
Check the forehead…
– Yep…
Gutsy captions unavailable.
New big “Scroll” work continues its march towards victory over old and boring works I have little hope of ever finishing
kinda the scene i am working with
guts…. n yella
yep, no need for another human form. ever
temptations of a buzz cut
Need to order fixativ or this whole thing will get fucked
getting lively
right on the margin,
Enough of that, it doesn’t look so great online, I think I just like blank paper. So, other stuff.
Small detail… best part of whole damn drawing
As for the rest of this post, let’s go with the sketches and some studio shots, all handled loosely as looser hands is the aim as of late, to try and wrest back some pre ink based hatching tendons, I once upon a time could shade with a pencil in that way that is like soft and not by scratching lines into paper. “Naturalistic”, like quasars n’ shit.
Life drawing, lord am I rusty
Just scribble, loosen thy hand
I will learn some
WIGZ
UH
UHHH
Just swim in the ruins
Maybe finished works arrive here?
One day vengeance on all the lame drawings
Also, comic page, about waking up in “spaghettie”, in Seattle I think… I never worked in a real 7-11, just “Lil’ Champ”, Amoco, Shell?, and some other lame pretenders to the throne.
Is this even worth posting?
And finally, I hope, let me wrap this up with what the Twitter bot coughed up from the depths, it has the word virus in it, so it seems relevant now:
Oldie – sometime in 2009 – part of ‘Unabomber’ series
There have been some delays… (distractions as well if I am being honest here.)
The whole thing, which is currently in a deep state of srugical repair. Just rip this shit up.
Primary patient, I mean if this bit is fucked then what the hell else can even work.
Where to start with how shitty these turned out…
Again same, but also dude on far right sucks, just like the right in reality, woop.
This bit holds up still, BUT this photo does not, there is scans elsewhere here and its not like anyones looking that closely besides me right?
A bit of “dear lord what the fuck am I doing with my time on this here earth” has been slowing this drawing down, and that is only fair since this drawing induced the sensation (give and you shall receive). This current WIP is merely off to a lame ‘start’ (several months in) lets say, the anatomy, the composition, I mean I am a fan of repetition but I have to say this needs a spark, and I have been here before, usually there is two options draw a hole into it or give it some room to breathe. So onto the back burner with it for the foreseeable future, no need for another wasted period of stressed efforts, I can wait… (so patient… fucking peice of shit, stupid drawing)
For now, studies and let some other drawings get moving. The one below is one I started when my eyes were littered with the noise of cataracts and I couldn’t tell if the paper was yellow or why anything was so blurry. So, now with some time distanced I can use it as a testing pad, perhaps I can make it work.
Back at this one…
Done during cataract days, if I can fix this fucker I can fix anything.
How it was last week vs. now. Next week, probably just a hole in the paper.
Nothing beats listening to Behind the Bastards talking on about people drinking bleach / prescribing bleach as a cure all for fucking idiots, whilst sketching out some anatomy and other nonsensical shit.
sketch apr may 2020 ish
you got the FLU
sketch apr may 2020 ish
sketch apr may 2020 ish
always more anatomy plz
cant draw ears
ribs….
And some more photos of alterations underway in the studio…
miscellaney underway
small work, mehhh
got something here, not sure what
notes on plans to make notes
its gone to hell
And seeing as one giant drawing is never enough, I ‘modified’ my desk in order to turn it into something akin to a giant calculator, or scroll, so I can roll a huge piece of paper out indefinitely and just cut it every couple of meters and say, ‘look, a drawing has been finished’.
So much ink on the floor
Spaghetti? Comics again… underway… hopefully.
Wake up in spaghetti
If ‘Fallout 76’ and ‘Slay the Spire’ are held at bay, I should manage to continue the regular updates, if anyone reads this no matter, sense of direction (the micro accomplishment machine) is worth it alone.
