Dart

I did this drawing soley to write a review for a budding little comic called franken fran. The picture here was drawn as is, and I made plenty of sloppy mistakes aligning the face and such at that angle, but it added to the sort of flavor the comic has so I left it that way.

Oh, but I was going to talk about dart:

I'll be bringing Dart back into the comic Wednesday (correction: friday) and obviously the guy who was made up of two squares and four sticks needed a big revamp. Now that above picture is terrible, and I won't be using anything below the neck there he shouldn't even have a sword, what the hell did I draw that for?

I like the hair though.

Alice 6 Months Later

So Here a look at how Alice has changed over the past 6 months since she was introduced into Magic 8 Ball Girl. I gave her a big remodeling this week since she's providing some important recaps for this story.






Book 2



The Hair and bangs have been changed for Book 2. She now resembles a middleset Brian Green

The actual idea though is to make her hair resemble Tiny Fortune teller's hood.

Crazy Stuff last week.

So first up, here a info on what's going on behind the scenes of Magic 8 Ball Girl:
Some art for the Pending new website:



These will of course be buttons to other parts of the site. Ralk.net is my sisters Website, so she's helping me get my start. check it out.
I'm also going to get a guide set up for new readers. Good places to start reading, Explanations about the characters, excuses for why the art sucks :).
I was going to have things like this on the blogger site for M8BG, but I could never work it into the templates.


I also finally updated the Banner I made back in 2006. It is nice to see my roster of Original Characters growing... I really need to do more with Space Boy someday.

Now for some info on the comic itself.
A new Character was introduced to Magic 8 Ball Girl's story Yesterday. I wanted to make sure she left an impression, so I gave her an entrance so dynamic it took me all afternoon and it still wasn't quite what I wanted, but...


Of course one of the main reasons this took so long, was the redesigning

Yes, it's the girl I created way back in February. I'm actually committing to what I said back in february about making her the main antagonist of this next plot. Funny thing is, her character's going to be a lot rounder than Ada this story... Round as in her character growth over the story.

Stoof!

This was a fun thing to draw. It's magic 8 ball girl in a statue of David Pose that I sketched during my art history class.


Here's the framework I used for it. I usually have trouble with the spine curves when I try framing the the more active poses. So I consider this one a victory.

because the statue I based this one was a masculine one, it also gave me a more acute idea of the physical differences.

Guess what technique I just learned!

I'm taking an art history class on Renaissance to Present day and I learned about a drawing technique developed early on in that era.
Can You guess which one it is?








Well as you can see I've been using Mantegna foreshortening, which is another word for (as the teacher put it) pretending your audience is full of morons (emphasis on pretending). You over exagerate the contour lines between a persons skin to force the reader to see the depth of their limbs or body. and like that mentally challenged guy from flowers for Algernon, I'm using it at every opportunity no matter how inappropriate.

But, just look at the hands! I think this is the first time I've improved on my hand work since... years before I even started this blog. I mean look at this. Hell, the main reason I kept Magic 8 Ball Girl a Stick figure for so long was because of the hand issue.

So Yeah, Good learning experience had by all.

Severe Updates to M8BG

A new Website is under constuction to be the new home of Magic 8 Ball Girl. With more elbo room, a fully functioning archive system and a shiny new banner.

notice something about Magic 8 Ball Girl



Stick limbs are a thing of the past now. I am confident enough now to draw Magic 8 Ball Girl and all her friends with slightly greater anatomical correctness.

Not bad for a guy who learned to draw from a kanji book.

Creepy sketches

This weeks Sketches may be a bit offputting.

Sasuke and Itachi reenact the infamous scene from South Park's "Scott Tenorman Must Die"


A scrapped comic involving a catholic priest and a high school teacher. You can guess why I didn't finish it.

"Kill him"
With these words the boy's life changed. No longer was he his mother's son, he was the product of his father's thievery and betrayal, and as such his mother would make him become his father's end.
With that accomplished she faded, passing down no compassion, no love, no comfort to her son; only that one burden.