An update to get that Skyrim one off the top of the page

Just finished this for DSPR. I'm not quire sure how Rob feels about me posting it here before he's written a post to accompany it over HERE, but I'm going to assume it's fine.

Rob came up with this idea, by the way. And if you have no clue what's going on, then you haven't seen this:

But now you have. Luckily, my blog doesn't have like 150,000 readers so nobody will know it was here first.

EDIT: 164,833 readers.

The Shout of Music

SOME SAY that I have too much free time, and that I waste it making pictures like this.

It's Skyrim-related, and if you don't get it I'm very disappointed in you. Especially Lisa.
But especially Bart.

On Doing Better

All my drawings up to this point have been flat and two-dimensional. Not in the witty I'm-joking-because-they're-pictures way, but in the way that they lack a sense of physical depth to the scene. It really pisses me off, and is one of the reasons I start disliking most of them as soon as they're finished. Today's (actually Tuesday's) drawing is my first real attempt at breaking out of that 2D habit I have. That and the other habit of drawing only the subject and background. I tried to make this more visually appealing by showing more happening than somebody/thing just standing there, and I think I did that.


In my mind, this is the first step in the journey out of The Gap.

Every day I'm bufferin'

Drawing of a joke between my brother and I from years ago. 

I can't remember why we were watching F1 speed boating. We were probably bored.

Moose Viking

Jess tells me that there are moose in Sweden, but she hasn't seen any. So naturally that resulted in a request for a drawing of a Viking riding one.

I wanted to do a Frazetta kind of style for this, but that would take eight million hours to do properly, so I opted for a cartoony sort of Frazetta.

Still not sure how finished this is. I'm only now just noticing how tiny the Viking is compared to the moose. But that's okay; a giant moose is an awesome moose. The background should probably be more than just some colours. However, adding more background definition would require time and effort, and I am tired.

Exeunt Scott.

The Thrawn Stratagem

I've been devouring the Thrawn Trilogy recently. What's that you say? You've never heard of it? IRRELEVANT! It is SUPER GOOD and I strongly suggest you read it.
But we both know you won't, since it's a Star Wars series. You probably wouldn't even if you already had a copy because I gave it to you on like Friday, Joel, stop hosting so many goddamn trivia nights and then maybe you will have time.

"SCOTT," you may shout at me, startling me and causing me to spill tea on my pants because how the hell did you get inside my house. "what is this turning into, some kind of Star Wars drawings blog?!" you may continue to yell.
"SHUT UP." I would defensively reply. "How could you complain when you have that rad depiction of a ysalamir sitting on Thrawn's shoulders?"

Enhance!

Enhance!

Enhance!

NEW CHOICE

No. NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo!!!

This just makes me unhappy. Why must he torture these films so?

It's obvious when you look at it that I threw this together really quickly. Longform things like this just stare me in the face shouting "THIS WILL TAKE HOURS", so I kinda half-assed this one.

I COMMAND YOU TO ENJOY IT REGARDLESS OF MY LACK OF  EFFORT.