Hugging Dudes

I drew this years ago. I coloured it last year. I wanted to share it but wanted to do it at a good time. This month, my country legalised same-sex marriage. So now seems like a good time.

Zelda Collab: Water Tektite

This is a Water Tektite! My second entry to Dan Jones' Zelda collaboration, multiple artists drawing every monster in the Zleda games. I wasn't planning on doing two, but there are 270 monsters on his list so he had some spare. "No one wants this little guy..." he tweeted, so I nobly stepped in. I nobly stepped in to draw something I knew he would retweet to his 1000+ followers, getting me some free publicity. 'cos I'm noble.

There really wasn't much to draw. I Googled 'water Tektite' and all the pictures were of of vicious looking one-eyed bug monsters. They all looked cool, but which one was the one I was meant to draw? 'cos apparently these were just normal Tektites, someone else was drawing that. Mine was specifically water.

Eventually, on a Zelda website, I found some images. Tiny, pixelated images. I couldn't figure them out, so I was starting to worry. I was collaborating with hundreds of other artists here, so I wanted to do a good job. Thankfully, the internet is full of nerds. So I was able to find a video on YouTube of someone playing the newer Zelda game 'Link Between Worlds' where the website said some water Tektites show up, and there they were. Cute, colourful little bugs! Not quite the bug monsters I found earlier. These ones didn't even have ONE eye.

Seeing as there weren't much to the design I decided to give the critter as much energy as I could, have him really lean in to his attack and throwing up water. Then I made the colours as bright as I could without burning my eyes. Maybe that's what happened to theirs.

Zelda Collab: Desbreko

This is Desbreko! My entry for the Zelda collab! Which is a collaboration put together by Dan Jones, to have every single enemy from The Legend of Zelda drawn by a different artist. I looked at the list of enemies that hadn't been drawn yet, Googled their names, and picked the coolest one. It was either this toothy skeleton fish or 'Dexivine', which is basically just a vine...

Pencil Drawing

To Russia With Love

I was originally going to draw Vladimir Putin getting bummed.

With the Russian president creating laws against homosexuals, the first temptation is obviously to draw sodomy with his face on it. But I hate his face. And sodomy is great. The other thing is, it felt provocative. You see, in my country same-sex marriage has been legalised. In Russia, homosexuals are beaten on the street. I'm safe from that violence in my country, so provoking facists with an illustrative 'fuck you', quite literally, seemed... well I thought I could do better.

So instead I decide to draw something patriotic. Something loving. 'cos that's really the point.

Infamous Comic #39

Here's the latest installment of my webcomic The Infamous Five! The group finally find out why Ant is so insistent on them having a gang name, and what it means for them. Click here to read!

Mario Bothers 6

I thought I had drawn all the bad guys from the first Mario game. I relaxed, felt safe in victory, I grew plump and complacent. But I had missed one. The realisation struck  me like a hammer. I mean, it didn't really. I just needed a verbal link to the image.

I can't decide which of the bad guys in Mario made me more fearful as kid. Lakitu or the Hammer Bros. Lakitu rained enemies on the player but you could at least flee through the level. Hammer Bros would block your path. You had to wait for an opening in their attack or defeat them, which wasn't easy as their movements didn't seem to have a pattern. There were usually two of them, jumping between a pair of platforms, whilst throwing an erratic barrage of hammers, waiting for you to come forward.

And there was one moment I had forgotten. Or perhaps blocked from memory. If you hung around too long, waiting for the right moment to avoid or kill... they'd start moving towards you. I can't remember who was playing at the time when this first happened to me. A friend, a family member or myself. I just remember the screaming.

Fuck Google Plus

Rencently the images I've uploaded to Blogger (which is the platform I use for my websites, one of which you are looking at now) have had their colours automatically changed, ruining the quality. At first I thought it was a glitch that would eventually resolve itself, but it kept happening. So I searched online to see if anyone else has this problem and it turns out, lots of people. It's due to an ‘auto-enhance’ feature Google added that can only be turned off if you join Google+.

Google. Fucking Plus.

I’m so angry. Google have thrown all these inconveniences at their users to force them into joining their piece of shit social network. We all noticed it on YouTube when comments and the like/dislike button was suddenly denied to anyone who only had a mere Google account. And now it’s my website. Which admittedly fewer people have noticed… but for fuck sake, this is my work! This is my God damn life I’m trying to build from the bottom up! Everything depends on the artwork looking good, it's what I slave over. I refuse to believe that a company as successful as Google has hired programmers dumb enough to think their auto-enhance feature actually enhances anything.

So I’m gonna be moving my websites to another platform as soon as I can, which either means enlisting the help of a friend to move everything as it is or building something entirely new. Obviously I’ll let you know what's happening. Until then, things carry on as normal.

You know, I’d probably have joined Google+ eventually just out of damn curiosity. But I utterly refuse to succumb to this fucking blackmail.