You, who are without mercy, now plead for it?

I find my love of Transformers growing lately. Not in anticipation of the upcoming film or the new Transformers Prime show. All of these modern renditions over complicate the simplistic awesome that is Transformers. Let me spell it out: Giant Robots Fighting! That's it! That's all a good Transformer show/ movie needs. Well, that and they need to look a little less like large piles of walking scrap. The plot is always the same. Optimus and the Autobots must stop Megatron from succeeding in whatever ridiculous scheme he's concocted. The more absurd the better. No Allspark, Trans Metal, Mini Cons, Beast Wars or Magnus Prime! Giant Robots Fighting at all times!

Anyway, enough of my nostalgiaistic rant. I'm just psyched that the toy line is finally revisting some classic characters in the Generations line.

 Just finished this pic a while ago. Think it'll probably go up in my son's room when I have it printed. He's a G1 nut! Which is perfect because so is his old man.

Hot Rod is no where to be seen in this rendition. Prime caps Megatron leads the Autobots to a victorious battle where they obliterate the Decpticons stop Unicron and reclaim Cybertron. In this version my inner child doesn't have to weep and sob constantly at the death of one of the greatest toys EVER! Christ! I'm six years away from forty and that shit still hurts! Damn your black hearts Hasbro!

The Redux

This is a old Link pick I did some touch ups on. Kinda creepy. Thought I'd throw it up here. I've been revisiting a lot of old pics lately to see if I can make them more interesting. I'll post some more when I get them finished.

Return of the Fanmen

So I started talking to a friend of mine about an old comic strip we did a few years back. It was gonna be Clerks in a Comic Shop. I sputtered out pretty quick in trying to stay interested. Honestly, the idea of comic strips, while I enjoy reading them, doesn't sit well with me in terms of trying to create one. It's too hard! It takes a far more keen individual to develop and make that shit than me.

Anyway, we got to talking and he expressed how he hated to see it die and wanted to find a way to make it go forward. So I went back and looked it over. There were some good ideas but it needed a better angle than just another comic strip. Besides I'd made the choice not to try and draw that way ever again.

What came out of all this was a rebirth of sorts in the ole' creativity department. I found once I stripped away the whole comic strip (pun intended) angle and looked at it more of as a comic I could actually draw the damn thing.

Long story short: We're develop a relaunch of sorts to an old idea known as the Fanmen. This time however it's a much more expanded take designed around a more traditional comic book storytelling style. Should be fun! Here's a peek!

Card Art

Been a crazy ass week! A lot of stuff going on personally. Still had a chance to do some drawing this week though. Not just the standard Monster Zero work but stuff for fun rather than commitment. Always cooler when you're not pressured.

These are all the size of baseball cards. Strathmore makes these I think. They're called art cards. They make some for painting as well. I picked up a bunch cause "you never know".

Apple Bitten!

I'm all the time seeing people talkin' smack about apple and their products in the comment sections around the web. Nearly every time it's critically negative in some way. I wonder if these people even use apple products. I have two ipods, one imac and an ipad and I've never been disappointed on any level with any of them. I own 2 PC's as well so I'm not even trying to be exclusive. I think people just hate the hype. They have this mindset that if it's the popular choice or different then people are just being sheep if they actually like it. The iPhone and iPad are prime example of this.

Well, haters will be haters I guess. It's sad though cause I've become completely attached to my iPad. I think a lot a people would if they actually had one to mess with. It has got to be the most badass device ever created. You can preach to me the greatness that is Android until you're blue in the face and I'll never bat an eye. Call me a sheep but this thing is freakin' awesome. I listen to my playlist while I sit and sketch and paint with my stylus. When I'm done with that I can play a game, watch Netflix, surf the web, check my email and write this motherfuckin' blog!

BAAAAAAAAA!

Can't get enough!

Here's a bit of art from my iPad sketch gallery!

Late Night Spider Fight!

Stayed up way too late tonight working on this. Kinda think it looks cool but what the hell do I know. It's 4:00 in the goddamn morning and I can barely type this.