Chris P.

First two pages of a short story I have coming out this Wednesday, March 27th, part of a book called Time Warp (from Vertigo).
Story by Gail Simone, art by me and colors by Jordie Bellaire.

Here's another concept for my world building/game project Robot Quest!

jetgreguar:

neilcicierega:

Anyone remember this book series?

christ

Deckard from Bee and Puppycat.  brush pen, photoshop.

Oh man, I am so so so into Natasha’s Bee and Puppycat.  And, until anyone tells me otherwise, I will forever assume Deckard was designed just for me because he is my brand of kawaii anime boi. (see also.)

I’m right in the middle of a move and ALSO haven’t been making anything that I can really share on the internet!  Sorry I’ve been quiet lately!!

workin’ on some film stuff

maikeplenzke:

This was a picture I started before I got a job and then forgot about it.

I found it on monday and decided to finish it. Three things that I find hard to draw are in it: bicycles, kisses and houses. Okay the house doesn’t count, that was easy as it’s basically just the door.

Btw the city I live in now has beautiful houses with really amazing old doors. The door on the illo is one of the simpler ones, most of them are really detailed with faces, figures and plants.

Prints are available here.

I’m in the mood for BEAUTIFUL PICTURES 

haha yes!  This is perfect.  Old-timey fear mongering images about voting and biking and anything else a woman might do makes old timey women look like my dream best friends.  

Via

Learned a new trick on Sketch up to make organic shapes and followed my nose again to this conclusion. It maybe works for a PG animated space opera epic ( or non epic) type of movie with friendly aliens???? MANDREWS OUT

Answering this and a question about, “how come you don’t draw that many nsfw pictures?” at the same time:

I prefer to take on pieces that I can post publicly, and works that I’m also interested in, but I’m pretty open about content and subject matter, especially since there’s a lot under the ‘adult’ banner that’s fun to draw. It’s something to discuss, because there’s quite a range of what’s considered adult and NSFW, and the range of what myself and others are comfortable with varies tremendously.

I tend not to do too many NSFW pieces for fun because the more borderline type of works that toe the line are usually more interesting to me. I do like pushing things and going to extremes ofttimes, but usually that’s reserved for ideas that benefit from it.

i.e., let a black man pursue and gun down an unarmed white teenager because he “felt threatened,” get acquitted by a primarily black jury, then have the media tell white people to just get over it while ginning up bullshit justification for the kid’s death while howling over a white president expressing empathy and see how they like them fuckin’ shoes. A good cartoon.

irenydrawsdeadpeople:

mako with mako in the mako on a mako

It may be 2013, but we’re apparently still discussing if sagging is responsible for problems in the black community and if black people get to say the n-word why can’t whites. Two items of interest. James David Dickson of The Detroit News:

Look at pictures of leaders from the Civil Rights Movement. Crispy suits, tight hairlines, not a pants-sagger among them. And how were they treated? They were sprayed with firehoses, attacked by dogs and jailed for the mere sin of asking that the words of the Constitution apply to black people as well.

Second, read Cord Jefferson’s parody of all the racial hand-wringing, where a video of violent rioting by white surfer dudes shows the white culture of lawlessness.

More important than white politicians are the white parents. I’d like to ask the caregivers of the children in these videos what they’ve been doing. When did so many white parents fall asleep at the wheel? You can complain about poor schools all you’d like, but the fact of the matter is that it’s the parents of these children who are letting them leave the house looking like slobs in their baggy board shorts and Hollister t-shirts.

This comic is the result of a few items swirling in the news lately. We’re talking about profiling black men in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting and apparently how that’s okay. Check out this Pat Oliphant cartoon that I’m sure he would say isn’t about race–just people who look dangerous. CNN anchor Don Lemon called out black males last week for sagging their pants and littering too much. He said they need to get their act together if want people to stop treating them like thugs. Well, Trayvon Martin wasn’t sagging the night he was shot, nor had he littered, but who knows where he would have thrown that Skittles wrapper had he been allowed to finish eating them.

The more realistic threat to every day people is from the big five banks, who have illegally thrown so many people out of their homes they had to work out a $25 billion settlement with the federal government. Would you be surprised if I told you most of that money has yet to find its way into the hands of the victims?

A woman in Ohio recently had her house broken into by a bank and all her possessions destroyed. It wasn’t even her bank–they were repossessing a house across the street and got mixed up. She’s asking for a mere $18,000 from the bank. They are demanding receipts for every item she wants compensation for. If you see any of these people coming for your house, make sure to Stand Your Ground.

Much like "states rights," “welfare," “voter fraud" and other dogwhistles, many conservative arguments are just a polite-sounding smokescreen obscuring a core of racism and stupidity. A good cartoon.

playsuits:

djkid:

kyuubeymon:

I know Senator Davis is cool and her endeavor deserves attention, but guys today SCOTUS just overturned a law that stopped states from discriminating against the poor and people of color when it comes to voting; there needs to be more outrage and attention to this too come on guys.

Yes this happened too and it is a bunch of bullshit.
Links aren’t working right since I’m on my phone, but it’s not hard to find on Google.

and what do you know, minority voters are already getting fucked over in… texas:

Just two hours after the Supreme Court reasoned that discrimination is not rampant enough in Southern states to warrant restrictions under the Voting Rights Act, Texas is already advancing a voter ID law and a redistricting map blocked last year for discriminating against black and Latino residents. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued a statement declaring that both measures may go into effect immediately, now that there is no law stopping them from discriminating against minorities.

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damnrightheisenblog:

ashleymater:

Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degré, daughter of French wildlife photographers Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert, was born in Namibia. During her childhood she befriended many wild animals, including a 28-year old elephant called Abu and a leopard nicknamed J&B. She was embraced by the Bushmen and the Himba tribespeople of the Kalahari, who taught her how to survive on roots and berries, as well as how to speak their language.

Learn more

 How awesome is this kid!

i am a golem made entirely of cat hair

“‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley — A Dribble of Ink:

I often tell people that I’m the biggest self-aware misogynist I know.

I was writing a scene last night between a woman general and the man she helped put on the throne. I started writing in some romantic tension, and realized how lazy that was. There are other kinds of tension.

I made a passing reference to sexual slavery, which I had to cut.  I nearly had him use a gendered slur against her. I growled at the screen. He wanted to help save her child… no. Her brother? Ok.  She was going to betray him. OK. He had some wives who died… ug. No. Close advisors? Friends? Maybe somebody  just… left him?

Even writing about societies where there is very little sexual violence, or no sexual violence against women, I find myself writing in the same tired tropes and motivations. “Well, this is a bad guy, and I need something traumatic to happen to this heroine, so I’ll have him rape her.” That was an actual thing I did in the first draft of my first book, which features a violent society where women outnumber men 25-1.  Because, of course, it’s What You Do.

I actually watched a TV show recently that was supposedly about this traumatic experience a young girl went through, but was, in fact, simply tossed in so that the two male characters in the show could fight over it, and argue about which of them was at fault because of what happened to her. It was the most flagrant erasure of a female character and her experiences that I’d seen in some time. She’s literally in the room with them while they fight about it, revealing all these character things about them while she sort of fades into the background.

We forget what the story’s about. We erase women in our stories who, in our own lives, are powerful, forthright, intelligent, terrifying people. Women stab and maim and kill and lead and manage and own and run. We know that. We experience it every day. We see it.

But this is our narrative: two men fighting loudly in a room, and a woman snuffling in a corner.

This is a really interesting article about the way media, fiction and narratives repeated in society shape the way we see and assume reality to be, specifically (in this case) about how narratives about women being victims, or supporting men, but not being fighters or soldiers create the idea that women never did that, and it’s only a modern new thing that we think they could, when in fact that’s not true at all.

Also, specifically relevant to this blog are the parts about how that affects us when we create stories ourselves, and can end up adding to this narrative consciously and subconsciously.  It’s the same with how women are depicted in illustrated fiction.  I honestly don’t think a lot of the boobs and butt poses, or women in bikini armor, are drawn by people consciously thinking sexist thoughts, I think they’re just doing What You Do.  This is a female character, this is just the pose we’re used to seeing women in.  We don’t think twice about drawing her like that, because it’s just how we’ve become conditioned to seeing women pose in the medium.  Same with stuff like this.  It’s how we’re used to seeing female armor, and when we think “female warrior”, our imagination just instinctively runs in the direction of what we’re used to seeing.  It’s just What You Do with female armor, and female characters, and female poses.

Since starting Escher Girls, I’ve gotten quite a lot of mail from people telling me that they never realized just how often they put their female characters in boobs and butt poses, or gave them bikini armor, just because that’s how they saw women drawn in video games and comics and never thought twice about it.  It’s just what seemed “right” to them, and that they’re now a lot more conscious of it and try to have more variety in the way they depict women, and often in ways that make more sense to the story. :)

I think it’s just important to catch ourselves sometimes and think are we creating something because this fits what we’re doing, and this makes sense, or are we just doing What You Do?  (This applies to all sorts of tropes and stereotypes too.)

juniysa:

Hey new followers!

In addition to writing, I also reblog art and great writing/drawing tips. 

This tutorial is incredible if  you are a character designer looking to diversify your  female characters. Adding weight to a character is not as simple as drawing a simple body and curving the lines; you have to know the body structure to get it right.

A helpful guide for comic artists, character designers, and cosplayers alike. 

Tutorial - Curves on Girls by *Ai-Bee

Edit: This is not the end-all, be-all tutorial guide to drawing larger people. This style is more cartoon than realistic. Photo references (of professional and amateur models in the #fatspo #bbw tags) are helpful as well. 

Because people often request more links to tutorials and specifically ones about drawing different body types than are usually taught in tutorials.

Via Flickr:
I just put in my deposit for MOCCAfest in NY so I'm really trying to have a new Slurricane out for then (early april). this drawing may be in it.

This is more of a homage than an actual joke dedicated to one of my new favorites from Gen V, and the fact that it can learn Fly is a rather common fact now. With its sturdy physique, unique typing and surprisingly aerodynamic body, Golurk is now my main choice of sky transportation. Booyah.

Edit: Oh, and (along with other deviants I'm sure) beat me to the relevation in visual form, but I like this idea and Golurk way too much so I followed through anyway.

Edit2: Seems like beat me to the punch, two months earlier. Huh. That's awkward. CURSES. Whelp, nothing to do about it, but be sure to have a look on her strip as well!

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this is your brain *an egg* this is your brain on drugs *egg in frying pan* this is your brain skateboarding *egg on a skateboard* haha nice

— the dog pissperer (@bro_no_way)

November 12, 2012

Hey! I did a guest comic for Mike Rosenthal’s great Twitter the Comic. This is it, right here! Tweet by @bro_no_way.

We cannot pass reasonable gun laws in this country, such as background checks, because “criminals won’t submit to them,” according to opponents of this entirely sane proposal. Opponents who, by the way, comprise about ten percent of the population, but much much more of Congress. If taken seriously, their argument against passing any laws that criminals would unspool centuries o laws that have shaped our society.

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ca-tsuka:

“Kairos” animated trailer by La Cachette studio (for the promotion of Ulysse Malassagne’s comic book)

 My mind was quite blown by this.

Mine too!

characterdesign101:

megasonger:

lexxerduglas:

bluandorange:

animationtidbits:

DOTA 2 - Character Art Guide

Full PDF HERE.

holy FUCK

Man, this is exactly the kind of stuff I’m talking about when I mention value range! The Witch Doctor before and after page is a really good example of the importance of starting with a dark value and working up. The “before” is a pretty common result of working light to dark, or starting with a value that is too close to the middle of the value range. Everything looks kind of washed out, even when working with saturated colors, and lacks volume.

This is an amazing reference overall, gonna pour over the full PDF when I have a minute.

oooh this is really helpful!! i think i’ll make some minor coloring changes according to this, i think it’ll help a lot

This is a great resource; we took a long hard look at this before we developed our 3D art style at work. Very smart, very well laid out. A really crucial resource to anyone who needs to worry about readability at a distance.