Holiday Season

Is it just me or is Christmas getting more and more stressful every passing year? I guess I must be getting old... nevertheless, it's still a holiday I enjoy very much (sans Christmas songs, of which I grew tired over ten years ago). Infact, I tend to enjoy it so much that I rarely have time to draw any Christmas-related art and which is why I've now settled down to making just New Year's Eve themed pictures. I still don't know what I'm going to be drawing this year, although I do have a few ideas involving a champagne bottle and a pair of tits...

Overall, it's been a fun year, even if my picture output has been ridiculously low. I got myself a graphics tablet as well as a new computer, which is thankfully working now *knocks wood*. I finally did a proper anime picture and I definitely plan on doing more in the future. Next year, I aim to complete a couple of ideas that I've had at least since 2011 and start a few other ones. What they are – well, you'll see then.

But first, the art archive. I will start compiling it in about three weeks or so. And yes, there will be new artwork included as well.

ORDERED ART: For Your Eyes Only

What you're looking at is a magnificent illustration by the very talented JaviDLuffy, commissioned by Yours Truly. It is also, in my honest opinion, the best damn erotic fan art of the Woman in Gray!

Having already committed to ordering a commission, I found it to be very difficult to figure out what I would like to see from another artist. After all, many artists do not commission art from their colleagues as they'd rather take a shot at it themselves; the majority of fun in drawing comes from the very process itself, getting the idea from your head down to paper. It wasn't until many months later when I finally remembered one particular source of frustration that start during my early days as a smut-doodling novice and never went away: the Woman in Gray, known to masses as the third spy from the late Antonio Prohias' Spy vs. Spy (vs. Spy) comic strip featured in MAD Magazine. Prohias' style is very difficult to nail as it doesn't seem to have any particular rules regarding proportions and perspective, or rather any rules may be crudely disregarded in order to make room for humour. Add the varying ink line thickness to this and you've got a perfect way to drive me mad (pun partially intended). The first time I attempted to draw her was in 1998 and the last was slightly less than a month ago. I only have ONE finished, very wooden-like pin-up of her where I actually got her face right from around 2006 or so but it's so utterly boring to look at it's almost as good as a badly incomplete sketch.

Seeing that I had been unable to come up with a decent image of her, I shifted my problems to JaviDLuffy, complete with two very rough tablet sketches (that took hours to draw because I sucked at it), a basic idea of the character sitting in chair in that pose doing the breast squeeze/lift while covering her privates with the other hand and a bunch of reference photographs taken from adult magazines as well as scans from Prohias' original strips. As I stated before, he nailed it. On top of it, he shaded it in black and white and put up some wanted posters of the two male spies leering at her.

10/10, would commission again.

Also, as you've probably noticed by now, I'm adding a new tag/image category for my blog called ordered art, which will refer to any picture I have commissioned from another artist.

ART: Halloween '13 Double Feature

A Perfect Fit

While I've drawn female anime characters before, this is the first time I actually got around properly finishing and publishing one.

I'm a huge fan of FUNimation's gag dub of Crayon Shin-Chan and I was sad to see the show get such poor treatment on Adult Swim as well as apparently not selling enough DVDs to ensure continuation beyond Season 3... or was it that FUNi's license expired? Whatever the case is, I will miss seeing more new episodes about Shin's shenanigans and constant perving of women thrice his age and above.

Shin's mother Mitzi (Misae in the original manga/anime) is probably as prominent of a character as Shin is, and it's just delighting to see a comical middle-aged woman in a leading role in an animated show. Then again, this is anime where pretty much everything seems to be possible due to the Japanese people having much more open-minded attitude towards animation than the majority of Western audiences. In the gag dub, Mitzi is seen obsessing over getting breast implants, avoiding weight gain (unless it goes directly to her boobs) and daydreaming about handsome doctors and cartoon villains (while being pissed off when her husband and her son oggle at women). In the course of the show, Mitzi's butt gets a few mentions and even a couple of scenes where it's large size is commented on in a teasing manner. Being the ass man that I am, I knew that if I had to draw a Mitzi picture, there was going to be a high chance it'd feature her butt.

Since this is a Halloween-themed picture, Mitzi had to be wearing some sort of costume that would hopefully make sense on level. Eventually, I recalled seeing an episode where Shin dresses up as Yaz, a protagonist from a 'Magical Girl' show that his friend Georgie (Kazama in the original manga/anime) secretly obsesses about. During the course of the episode, Georgie eventually gets a chance to put on the dress himself and, for humor's sake, ends up getting caught wearing it.

But what if it was Mitzi wearing that dress...?

Exactly.

Patricia Fenton

Of course, I just had to draw another pic, featuring Maddie.

The idea for this piece came mostly from discussions I've recently had with some of my fellow fan artists, as the video game series Mighty Switch Force has popped up in them quite frequently. Even though I don't own neither the first or the second game (as they've not been released on PC, at least not yet), I'm in full agreement with everyone over how nice they look... and I'm not talking about the graphics here, wink wink, nudge nudge. Anyway, as I was talking about the series and looking at some of the promotional art (which I had actually seen before), I realized that Patricia Wagon (the protagonist for both games) seems to have rather nice, wide hips in some of the artwork... then my brain did the logical and placed another character's hips over Patty's. Soon afterwards, I was sketching like a madman.

I actually inked this one in Photoshop using a simpler variation of an old pen tool technique I learned from LLToon waaaay back in 2009. This is why there isn't any variation with line thickness, other than the outline which I did with the help of using the 'stroke' option found under 'blending options' (which I then used as my guide when I manually inked the thicker ink lines to make them look crispier).

I'm dedicating this one for Roger Bacon who's a fan of the game series as well as a fellow MILF enthusiast.

Oh, and that gun (Armacham HV Penetrator) is from a completely different game called F.E.A.R. (which, IMO, is one of the best FPS titles of the past decade and still an engaging, great game).


Happy Halloween, everyone!

SCANS: The Prediction

Something I came across while browsing through a digital collection of classic MAD magazines, in search for Lady in Grey reference needed for a commission (which I have ordered from another artist)...

ART: Playtoon, September 2073

 For Fern and the celebration of MLaaTR's 10th Anniversary!

Here's another Playtoon cover!

I tried to stick on-model as close as possible when drawing Vega. She's probably one of the most challenging MLaaTR characters to draw, mostly because there isn't any official reference of her beyond 'Escape from Cluster Prime' which was her only appearance in the show. I actually had the picture finished by Sunday afternoon but I held back releasing it until I had made certain there wasn't anything that needed to be changed or tweaked. Thankfully, it was worth it as there were some blaring typos present. Toonspew also suggested giving Vega a belly button to make her anatomy match Jenny's, which I think was a great idea as it really balances out the otherwise barren midriff, and Sadarax helped me figure out the series' timeline so that I could use the proper year (2073 in this case).

The mock article teases, once again, are based mostly on actual MLaaTR episodes, with some fanon/headcanon thrown into the mix. The most obvious one would probably be the one mentioning a 'happy ending' for Melody. Those of you who have seen the not-so-great third season of the show are well aware of some of the downer episodes that pretty much pitted Jenny against characters that had earlier been her (or the other protagonists') allies. In this case, I felt it would be neat to hint that Melody's story wasn't over just yet and that truce could be achieved.

Oh, and the high price is because according to Back to the Future Part II, there will be massive inflation in the future.

Hope you enjoy the pic!

Hit Counter removed

Yup, it's gone. I don't know about you guys, but all it has showed to me during the past few months has been a blank space and an advert for some casino shit and nothing else. Perhaps it was my AdBlock settings or perhaps it was just broken. I don't know. Anyway, I just removed it. I think the counter had something close to 400,000 hits but I could be wrong too.


I don't currently plan on replacing the hit counter as I don't think it really serves that big of a purpose. Besides, it's more interesting to look at the 'Visitors' box which shows where people viewing my blog are located. You can find it below the subscription options box.

Anyway, that's all for now.

About the "neverending" art archive project...

As it's been for the past three years or so, the art archive project (a compilation of all my art plus some bonus content) I've been meaning to complete has constantly gotten delayed for one reason or another. I dropped some hints last year that I was going to go ahead and complete the damn thing to coincide my fifth anniversary as a cartoon smut fan artist but as it so happened my brand new computer decided to start malfunctioning and effectively ruined an entire month for me and thus killed any chances I would've had to finalize and release the archive.

Recently, though, I've slowly come to accept that the archive would've probably been delayed anyway as I don't think I was looking at the damn thing very realistically. Even though I reorganized the way I categorize my art in my blog back in 2011, that doesn't mean they're similarly organized on my hard disk. Besides rearranging my works on my own machine, I also wish to create some new content for the archive as an incentive for people to download it – I know, it's kind of an ass thing to do but at least I'm not charging anything for it. The new content would include both hi-res versions of my old stuff as well as possibly "Special Edition" versions of certain images I feel could just use little adjustments to make them better (obviously, these will not replace the original versions but will rather be additions). Then there's of course "never-before-seen" content, which isn't actually more than a handful of images, and I've also toyed around finishing certain pics that have been in development hell since 2010/2011. As a cherry on top, I have an urge to draw something I haven't drawn before as well as create A Very Special Maddie Fenton picture that features a her in a situation you've seen countless times but never drawn by me... or, at least, never drawn by me beyond hinting it.

Anyway, as you've probably realized by now, all this requires more than a mere month to pull off, especially if you're not someone like Fern who can whip up a complex image in about two or three hours (it never ceases to amaze me how fast he is and how good the results are considering how little time he spends on an image). Also, the summer job I landed this year has occupied the vast majority of my free time. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have a job and no free time during the summer than limp through it and end up with negative savings, but... yeah, you know.

I should be back to full speed by fall. I still have that Sniper Tomcat order to finish and while the progress has been a slow one, it has been progress nonetheless. After the pic is done, I'll get to work with the archive. I will not expect it to be finished in one month, although I do hope to be able to restrain myself from going overboard with the whole thing. As tempting as it is to hold out until March 3rd 2014, having a release date be in about six months from the starting date may once again end up simply causing me to abandon the damn thing yet again as I suddenly have less and less interest in finishing the archive and instead focus on other things (which, BTW, is a very common problem with most fan artists).

In conclusion, I will not give you a specific date for the archive's release. The official statement is when it's done with the addition of hopefully before the end of the year.


TL;DR: I explain the brief history of the art archive project and its numerous delays, tease the project's content yet again, explain that my job takes all my time during the summer which is why everything is lagging behind schedule and state that the archive will hopefully be done before 2014