Sketches and Pictures: December 2003 Archives

So there's this thing going around. Celshaded portraits. Matt and I collaborated on one of me, and it actually came out pretty damn good for a first attempt. I look just about ready to get cast in Waking Life, and spew a load of overhyped, mastubatory, pseudo-philosophical bullshit for two hours and waste everybody's goddamn time to the point where even self-immolating on a streetcorner Thich Quang Duc style isn't enough of a payoff. Not by far.

Yeah.

Anyway, zoom.

Check me out. All Mona Lisa and whatnot. If I'da known this was gonna turn out half decent, I woulda pulled my hair back for the reference photo.

Sorry about the hair, by the way. But celshading the dreads individually probably would've taken a week.

Lovely coloring job, as always, by Matt. Not exactly Christmassy colors, but I'll bet you're sick of red and green by now. So everybody wins.

And since there was a little confusion in my inbox, previously: These cards are FREE. You ask for one, you get one. Simple as that.

I'll see what I can do about gettin' 'em printed up this weekend.

Finished the inks to this a couple nights ago. It's now in the hands of Matt, my eminently capable colorist. Yeah, I'm behind schedule, but that's nuthin' new.

For everybody late to the party, this here's Krampus. He's Austrian, and he pops up every year around the 24th of December or so to ravish the ladies and beat the crap out of the kids. And no, I didn't make him up just so I'd have an excuse to put a demon on my holiday cards. (Although really, I was already looking for a justification when I found out about him. Neat how that works, huh?) The Rotten Library's got more to say about him here.

If you want a card when all's said and done, write me and let me know. I'm passin' these things out like candy, and the more, the better.