Fun_Calt.Oldster

I want to do alters but I don't know how to go about painting, so I started tearing up cards to draw right on them.

This was the first experiment in this technique after I found myself tearing up a card randomly and seeing a face in the negative space.

Do you know the card?

2/23/16

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Fun_Elspeye

One giant leap for baby steps.

2/22/16

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Fun_Idearz

I don't remember exactly why I did this, but it remains pretty stupid.

Pretty sure I wanted to try Cube Watermelon's style and had some piece of cardboard laying around that I wanted to draw on.

Subtly venting, too. So, fun, fun idiocy all around, really.

2/22/16

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Hare_Tee.DieOnDeck

A rejected concept based on forgetting your pact after taking pains to remember not to forget your pact.

2/22/16

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Fun_NHPD3030

I drew a sort of sci-fi future-ish cop after listening to a lot of computers and its source, but also Del and quietly wanting to revisit an old idea.

My concept was a New Haven cop in the future, with an emphasis on the uniform, particularly the hologram-based utility belt.

Turned out exceedingly mediocre.

2/22/16

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Fun_NHPD3030_I

Inks for our future cop.

2/22/16

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Fun_NHPD3030_P

Wanted to draw another Sci-Fi type piece for Inktober 15, themed after future cops.

2/22/16

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Fun_SaitokyoMTG

This was my most recent piece made specifically for Tsuitta---.

After fellow Magic shop and location-game-acronym TokyoMTG announced their new line of sweaters, he mused online about wanting a sweater of his very own from TokyoMTG--TokyoMTG being an MTG shop located somewhere in Japan, but not sure where. Maybe TokyoMTG is in Miyazaki, somewhere? Osaka? TokyoMTG should be more specific.

Anyway, using some GP coverage photo, which is © Wizards of the Coast LLC xkcd abcfamily, I whipped this up for the occasion. I was tickled to find some people in the US react to it as if it were real!

In any case, it's funny cuz despite wearing TokyoMTG's gear, he famously runs a famous JP shop with another famous name. His name. Nobody ever realizes Hareruya's named after himself, not just sunny skies.

Note this image is satire. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hareruya Inc., TokyoMTG MegaCorp., Wizards LLC, Centaurs ESRB, Lucasfilm LTD, Ask Jeeves, or yo mama dot Obama dot comma.

Wake up, sheeple.

2/18/16

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Fun_OwenIsAwrong

This is a Twitter mock-up I do recall more about. Owen T said something about this card resembling a certain celebrity and he was wrong, so I made this to demonstrate who it really looks like.

Now everyone knows what you are--which is to say, © Wizards of the Coast LLC html afk.

2/18/16

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Fun_Hungeringalingadingding

I don't remember exactly why I made this, but do recall it was specifically for Twitter.

Pretty sure it was in response to something LSV said during a draft during Betrayers of Tarkir.

2/18/16

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Fun_Dokokoko

どこどこどこどこどこどこ？？？

2/17/16

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Fun_Dokokoko_P

Just wanted to draw something wacky. Can't win 'em all.

Was unsure if I wanted to ink it.

2/17/16

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Hare_Tee.OuttaSait

A failed project design. Look on the bright side and stare into the sun. But don't blink.

Never blink.

...

Yeah, Jamie Hewlett for days.

Another design I liked here.

2/17/16

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Fun_ShoulderznStripez_P

And here are the pencils after the inks and final. So much lost from the pencils.

Always.

2/16/16

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Fun_ShoulderznStripez_I

Curveball, discovered the inks to an old Inktober piece.

2/16/16

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Fun_Nerda

lert.

2/16/16

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Fun_Porch

And this is the chance I never got,

To make a move,

But we just talk about,

The people we've met in the last five years,

And will we remember them in ten more?

2/15/16

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Fun_POWaSungal

Inking this take on Sungal, one of my first G-Pen efforts.

2/15/16

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Fun_POWaSungal_L

Trying to figure out what a tribal Sungal might look like.

2/15/16

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Fun_SpottyDotty

So after the Copic exploded and the inks freaked out, we ended with this.

Added some colored pencil and white-out and called it a wrap.

So that's how that shakes out.

It's not all sunshine.

2/15/16

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Fun_SpottyDotty_More

So I could have given up after the Copic exploded, but figured it'd be fun to see if I could rescue the piece.

But then when inking (decided to use inks after pencils for this one), the G-Pen randomly flung ink everywhere.

Excellent.

2/15/16

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Fun_SpottyDotty_Blast

Ok, ok, funny story with this one.

I was studying a magazine, went to color the eyelashes, and my Copic just poops a fat inkblob everywhere cuz of course it does.

Hilarious.

2/15/16

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Fun_GhosterCrew

And here's the result of our first experiment tearing a Magic card face off and going to town with inks, Copics, and white-out.

The white-out gets really tangled up in the blue material a little too easily, so it's not quite reliable enough for a real piece--it tends to either blob up or scraggle out with too limited smooth runs.

Been looking for some Jim Lee level white-out...two dud brands so far, next is a bottle of White Deleter.

2/14/16

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Fun_GhosterCrew_Base

More Magic experimenting. Seeing how Copics interact with cards' blue layer.

2/14/16

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Fun_GhosterCrew_L

Trying out something new--ripping the front off of Magic cards, and drawing my own stuff on top.

Yes.

The trick is that the air in my room is too cold, so it's hard to tear off the face only as far as the white layer, the white layer clings to the face layer, so it goes straight to the blue core layer.

2/14/16

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Fun_DidiColorz

I had an old package of Pocky laying around and wanted to spruce it up.

At the same time, I scored some sweet, obscure Copics I have been craving to test out.

I also needed to figure out Didi's color scheme.

The complication is in the skin.

I sort of envision her as sorta Japanese since that's all I have for reference around here.

I don't really think in terms of color, but I do know I have the inherent "white" complexion drilled into my imagination.

I grew up in the US. I have to force myself to think in terms of darker skin tones. There was a Boondocks comic about this.

It's a bummer. I find it hard to believe you can exist today and not feel the pressure of that default light-skin imagination.

There was a study about this. What race is a stick figure?

Anyway, she lives in Japan, she's Japanese-ish.

2/13/16

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Fun_DidiColorz_Ropa

Pretty sure I want Didi to have a military type jacket.

And the Dimir shirt has to be purpley, which makes her hair and eyes kind of sink into that.

But I always get tripped up on skin...

2/13/16

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Fun_DidiColorz_L

Bought a new pen I bought at 7-11.

Not braggin'.

2/13/16

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Fun_Foo

Certain songs just punch all those emotional buttons, don't they.

Imagine having that kind of power. Her kind of power.

2/13/16

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Fun_Foo_Base

La la la la la la.

Lalalalala.

2/13/16

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