COMMISSION: My Life as a Von Neumann Device: Character Sheet #1

...and I'm done.

Download the image (and the rest of the SFW commissions) from Mediafire (no password)

(Notice that the image is not hosted here since Blogger is apparently unable to handle images that have a width of nearly 4000 pixels)

I actually had this one wrapped up two days ago but I waited until I got an confirmation that Toonspew, the author of My Life as a Von Neumann Device, had received the pic. Most of these characters play a more prominent role in the upcoming sequel fic*, so this serves as a sneak peek of things to come.

Oh, and despite the title says 'character sheet #1', there's no '#2' or '#3' in works (although I'm not completely denying the possibility for extra pics in the future).

Coming up next: MILFs


*) the original XJ-10 appears in the original fic and Future Pteresa is actually a bonus inking of my own creation, so they don't really count. I suppose it would've made more sense to have Vega instead of Pteresa but whatever.

SCRAPS: MLaaVND Commission #1g - Pteresa

When designing new characters and revisiting old ones for Toonspew's fic, I couldn't help but toy around a bit. I usually took at least one day off from commission work every week to do something unrelated, but in the end I couldn't really steer away from it.

This is one of the results:


What you're seeing here is essentially a combination of my fascination towards a minor character in MLaaTR and a reference that probably no American gets. To put it short, I essentially had Pteresa dress up as a character from an obscure British soap opera. Yes, I think Viv was a total MILF.

I will soon release the actual commission itself, which is a single character sheet containing all the inkings side by side. I'm also aiming to release a layered version of it so that those of you wishing to colour these have a ready template with removable placeholder lines and backgrounds.

SCRAPS: MLaaVND Commission #1f - Brad and Tiff

These took a bit longer than expected since I had to do some redrawing from scratch.

Brad and Tiff are now spacefarers, and while they're reminiscent of some of the more famous pop culture icons of our age in this picture, they will be going through wardrobe and hairdo changes throughout their adventures... or at least Tiff will. Brad is sporting a modified JST-44 "Bradster" with a folding flash suppressor, while Tiff prefers a less powerful but more accurate Chi-9N scout pistol with with an incoherence limiter*.

More coming soon.


*) I'm such a goddamn nerd... and a fan of Dark Forces

GIFT ART: "You want some MILF with your cake?"

I didn't make a lot of fuss about my birthday, so it went by somewhat unnoticed. However, ThaMan didn't let it go and commissioned Shoogerbare (which you might remember for this Jessica Rabbit comic) to whip up a sweet pic with two of my favourite Pegs. I especially applaud the fact that we're seeing Peg Bundy art here which is something I consider to unfortunately be a somewhat non-existant delicacy despite so many people praising her hotness.

Thanks, both of you!

EDIT (10/11): ThaMan has just made a post about the pic above in his blog. The reason I'm mentioning this is that he also posted another awesome pic. Take a look!

SCRAPS: MLaaVND Commission #1e - Misty

Expect her to pwn some hearts in the upcoming fic.

I actually finished this one three days ago, but I have a policy of not publishing the final pic until I've shown it to my customer and gotten a reply about it (this way I can make any possible "last minute changes" incase there's some minor issues that need to be fixed). The good news is that while waiting for a reply I managed to catch up with the remaining characters, so I now have only one character left to ink! However, the next one's going to be a double feature so it'll have to wait a bit... but not much.

The "lightning bolt" on Misty's hair is supposed to be an "anomaly" of some sort that appears on her hair in a more lighter colour and is not meant to have any visible ink lines if coloured. Once again I've supplied the published version with some placeholder lines for guidance purposes. When I'm done with all the characters, I will post versions that lack these lines. These may be used when properly colouring the characters.

In blog-related news: I'm aware that the Hottie Appreciation Box is lagging behind schedule. I'll try to update it ASAP (read: in a few days)...