Supplementary Spy Packet

To the cadence of a children's song:

Here are some more of my favorite things...

Favorite things...favorite things...

Lalalalalala...lah

One of the ONLY pictures I've had in my databanks FOREVER because I love it so much. So simple, so complex, so self-contradicting. Actually, this is Greg Tocchini's piece and I love every moment of it. Tocchini's problem is that he's better when he draws, inks, and colors his own comics, but he takes forever to do it all by his lonesome, so he rushes, and fucks up. My only dream is to draw something as badass as this picture.

One of my favorite moments of the game: The Sending. I wish Square Enix wouldn't have tried to appeal to the horny male audience with X-2. She may've been hot in those spank shorts, but classic Yuna can fuck X-2 Yuna up with just a glance. Though Rikku does look better in sluttier skimpier clothes...but that's Rikku. Yuna is classy. Rikku is cute and risque. Don't even get me started on Lulu and Paine. I mean, if X-2 were realistic, Lulu would've bitched out and shunned Yuna and Rikku for hanging out with this OBVIOUS Lulu knockoff. Fuck that. Pregnant Lulu could still beat ass better than emo-cut-myself-for-pleasure girl, Paine. Lulu for life, dude.

Also, did NOT know Jo Chen was a girl. Doesn't really matter, but to find one of my favorite cover artists to be a chick is kinda weird, like when you find out that person your friend has been dating with the ambiguous name is actually of the same gender as your friend and you had no idea he/she was into that sort of thing

Hiro Mashima turned up the heat with this page, panel 8-- the one where Lucy is moving forward on the cart. That one panel is the BEST panel I've EVER seen in his manga and he's had a lot of awe-inspiring panels over the years. With so much energy and tone in one panel, it's hard not to fall in love.

Side note: if you're not reading Fairy Tail, do so immediately. Then read Rave Master. No scratch that. Read Rave Master first, then Fairy Tail, immediately. If you see this and don't read either Mashima books, then shame on you for living without reading Japanamanga at its awesomest. If you've been reading Fairy Tail AND Rave Master, then congrats you're now an SSS rank spy [All three S's stand for sexy].

Bill Otomo. I wish I could go back to that lovable blaxploitation era and be black and beat ass and call everyone my brother and smack around drug dealers and use the forbidden word, "jiveturkey," and swoon women for being so many and blaxploited. Actually, I do interchange the word, dude, for the word, cat every now and then

Corey Lewis needs to animate some Morrison-era Batman and Robin so I can watch Jerkman dog some fools with his grappling hook of ass whoopery and wee Damian go ape-shit on villains for calling him wee like he was Edward Elric-- hahaha, that shrimpy midget alchemist is lucky he's fictional. He'd be soooo pissed if he went online and found this smack talk.

What's that noise? Did someone just clap their hands? Seriously. What the fuck was that sound? OH SHIT, IT'S THE FULLMETAL ALCHE----------

This is Edward Elric here. Anyone else want to call me a pint of tiny in short supply because of shorter demand? Then, get ready to receive a pike through your chest, assholes. E. E. OUT.

I need an Assassin to assassinate an asinine Art Tool

So.

There's this thing that's been bugging me. It's called a bamboo tablet and I have one. Silly thing is I have less control over the medium on the tablet than I do on good ol' paper and I gotta say, the old ink and paper method, the Joe Kubert tried and true style, is where I'm best at-- I'm just old school like that. That being said, I do want to give tablets another try when I can muster enough chump change to purchase a Cintiq, which in my opinion, is as close to digital ink and paper as you can get. I think I'll still ink my pages by hand, but maybe I'll try to sketch out the roughs on a Cintiq before then print to proceed.

Now then.

Shown here are some of my recent/unpublished tablet craptasterpieces I had laying around with a full reasoning of why and how. I'll start posting my old sketchy favorites that no one but I have seen after this.

This is a character I've had since forever. She's a work of art, but this is not. NEVER try to do a spontaneous 1am tablet poster when you haven't drawn the character in months. I actually FORGOT she had an eyepatch and fingerless gloves when I did this. Then I added the eyepatch. Not the gloves though. This is a realistic version of why I hate that damn tablet. The tablet itself is just a black board that you draw on, but when you use it you have to get accustomed to drawing not where you're looking. Thankfully, when I get that Cintiq, it has a screen that you actually draw ON, much unlike this bamboo shit

I wanted to draw something random as hell with just an eraser and a base color. No idea why I drew a gator who turned into a samurai. Maybe it was the cereal I was eating at the time or maybe it was an amalgamation of dream-like warriors I had forgotten and ended up creating. Hmmm...actually I may've just stumbled upon a great story: Gator Samurai, Savior of the Swamp. Hahaha

After reading a whole bunch of noir tales, working on my graphic novella, and spending oodles of time with my girlfriend, I decided to draw one of my favorite creations, Fantine, in a particularly shadowy setting. I was fucked around with the dodge tool on this and screwed up her hair. She'd beat me if she was real. The only thing I really like about this picture is that name plate I drew at the top. Been reading too much Brandon Graham shit

So this is a super-late night attempt at a comic on the tablet with no idea where the story was going and no idea what I was drawing other than drawing what I wanted to. It was supposed to be part one of a Valentine's day gift comic, hence all the love and heart themes, but my loved one came over too quickly and I had no time to finish it. This one's for you, pie of cute

Drawn for my facebook during a particularly Pokemon week for me. I was experimenting with layers, little to no solid black lines, and cool, manga effects-- came off rather how I hoped it would with a few exceptions. The pokeball turned into an evergrowing disaster the more I worked on it. My throw hand looks like crap. For a cheshire ghost, Gengar sure is stiff. Also, I wanted to give Gengar a nickname but didn't think anyone would get his name out of context. My Gengar's name is Gengarvitis-- could never spell that shit in the game because it was one letter too long