Some of my favorite art I made this year

Sneak peak

I love it when an artist blorbofies a character so much it's practically separated from the source material, and then they decide to take the next step and file off the serial numbers and make it their own weird thing. And I hope you do too because... well you'll see.

This weekend's movie was The Vourdalak, which was both extremely good AND appeals to my love of fucked up puppets.

Shin Godzilla was nothing but two hours of logistics porn and I loved every second of it.

Placing Frankenstein (2025) next to Interstellar on my "Movies I absolutely love but really needed some script fixes" shelf

Page 12 complete! Quite a pickle!

Thinking about that "career path lore" thing. Mine was that I was good at math and art, but art careers rarely give you health insurance, while math-based careers do. And this was all pre-ACA so it wasn't a hard choice.

Playing around with a leaky ballpoint pen. Have some ideas for a new project.

I got up at 5am this morning and defeated Savage Omega Planetes in MH:Wilds for the first time, then I found out that Cheney died and the day just got better from then on. Beautiful.

We did it for you Dick Cheney

It has been 20 years since any Pennsylvania judge has lost a retention election. But the GOP is campaigning for voters to remove three Democratic justices from the state supreme court in Tuesday.

Tetsuo: the Iron Man did in fact live up to the hype. Incredible. Much funnier than I expected. Glad I finally listened to everyone that told me to watch it.

I think a sword is too cliche for Lioness, but since her whole halo thing is basically a giant subwoofer for spacetime, it would be cool if she controlled it with something like an electric violin.

Brian's no good very bad day.

A logo to place in the background of Aphelion. Some sort of band t-shirt.

The "kitten" is from gengineered clade of incredibly unethically produced pets. Uplifted cats and bunnies and puppies that served as companion animals with few rights. Now that baseline humanity is extinct(???), they've taken over our technology. This means the kittens have nukes. Good for them.

Prior image was basically a test of how time consuming the reflective armor would be, and YEAH. That's a bit too much work. If you see a character with super shiny armor in my work, it probably means they'll exist for three pages and then die.

"Are they dead?" Mittens asked the Lioness as they walked across the tarmac. There was no response from the armored figure leading her. "Mr. Fish, Is everyone dead?" she asked her toy. "I'm sorry, I cannot connect to the local network. Would you like to hear a song?" he replied, flapping his fins.

Was planning on using this Julia set in a piece, but the composition wasn't working out so here it is by itself. Ninth order, c = complex(-.60000,-.489001)

A few more en plein air watercolors. Daniel Smith pigments and Arches hot press paper.

Does anyone know of any living illustrators that are into math? Even as hobbyists? I know there are tons of math nerds that also dabble in music (and vice versa), but not illustration. Seriously, walk into a college math department and something like a third of the offices have guitars.

More comics should utilize optical illusions.

Out of the fire

I don't understand how I'm supposed to boycott Disney when all their shit sucks so much

Some Zelder doodles. The horribly amalgamated Hero of Time and the walking corpse Hero of the Wild

i cannot believe there are people on here still saying you should "sign up" and give your personal info to organizers of a protest. you do not need to do that. in fact you should Not do that

Another set of studies, this time portraits from A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

More studies, this time from Nope (2022). I think I'll go back to black and white movies after this, it's harder to parse apart the more complicated hues. Gorgeous movie though.

There is an astounding number of tutorials telling me how to draw some of the ugliest art I have ever seen in my life. Amazing confidence, really inspiring in a way.

Referencing some still images from movies I like for inking practice. First up: The Third Man (1949)

Worst part of drawing while referencing photographs of people is realizing that everyone has one eye higher than the other.

Wynstan, the student wizard, has conjured a wonderful spread of food for the two of them to eat, and Wally is having the time of his life, being waited on by his brother. Well, it is his birthday! #art #oc #WynstanTheWondrous #kidlit

A Hellflower in orbit over Mars.

most of what I’m doing lately is human OCs, so I’m thinking about committing to an actual spec bio side project… (these guys are people, to be clear. they will have clothes and language and society. it is just going to take me a bit to get there) #art

What are you running from? You know it won't change anything.

We have two jowly, jovial midwestern uncles who have what appear to be sincerely held values about their pretty decent politics, but no you ding dongs want us to offer up our votes to Kim Guilfoyle’s sweaty Temu Daddy Warbucks-ass ex.

Another roughish #kidlit #bookdummy image. #kidlit #illustration #cats

Back on my watching classic movies bullshit again, this time with Stalker (1979). Absolutely gorgeous, love a movie that brings up a lot of ideas while also arguing against itself half the time, plus a girl gets a doggy at the end. The Writer was my favorite of the characters.

A badass with a power arms and a hoagie for @limesquares.bsky.social Deep down inside she's ecstatic, she's just not good at showing it.

Artfight for Turbofanatic! revenge time

#Artfight 15 for @turbofanatic.bsky.social

Bad dreams

Art Fight attack for @rhavencroft.bsky.social!

I know you're supposed to exaggerate and smooth motion in comics for the sake of clarity, but there's a wonderful staccato awkwardness to photographs that I really enjoy. I like it when moving things look slightly unbalanced and weird.

Last, but certainly not least, we have Crispy! Got her nickname from Sidon, who exclaimed "Oh dear, you're crispy aren't you?" upon first seeing her.

Time for Fuzzbutt! A werewolf with separation anxiety. He's picked up a crossbow and the sword of six sages and is off searching for... something.

Thinking of redesigning Lioness right before artfight... foolish, but I do love where her look is going.

The next Link Death is the LTC from Hyrule Warriors: DE (he's been promoted from Lieutenant).

Meet Mr. Hero! Yes, he's taken Ravio's nickname for him. Saved Hyrule and Lorule from a mad artist (but I repeat myself) and then had a fashion adventure.