Sneak peek at an upcoming commission

Let's face it. I'm terribly slow with commissions. That's probably my biggest disadvantage when it comes to doing commissions for people. But at the same time, this gives me a chance to work on some techniques I've never done before. Dreke's been giving me a few pointers about creating artwork that uses no lineart. I've never done it before, so I've been experimenting with it on my current commission for Star.

Eh...it needs work. But I'll keep working on it and see how it goes. Hopefully I can learn this technique pretty quickly so I can move on to the next commission. Wish me luck!

Oh Spike, always being a show-off

For those who watch my FA page, you may have already seen this. Here's a quick update on how this is progressing so far, completely uncensored for all my blog-following fans. :P

I am very messy at drawing/ coloring, I know lol. Hope ya' like so far. Expect more soon!

TF2 Contribute Update - More progress on Guan Dao!

A little bit of progress has been done on the Guan Dao, a melee weapon for the Pyro. This is a part of the Chinese Dragon Pack. The weapon is close to completion, all that it needs left are the chinese dragon engravings on the blade itself. Wish me luck!

TF2 Contribute - The Wrath of Wan Hu!

This is actually old news, but I didn't see any harm in posting about this (considering I haven't touched this blog in quite a while). Anyways, The Wrath of Wan Hu, a primary weapon for the Pyro, has been completed! It is part of the Chinese Dragon Pyro pack!

For those who don't know, the Chinese Dragon pack will consist of Wan Hu, Guan Dao, an unnamed chinese dragon shotgun, and Zhu Long's Yin, a dragon hat.

The shotgun is still in heavy development, so I have nothing to show for that as of now. If you're interested in the hat, however, feel free to visit here!

Updating an old comic from last year.

There was an old comic strip I was working on last year that I eventually gave up on due to discouragement. Here is an excerpt from the comic, the particular panel in which what pushed me to close the book on this comic.

As you can see: it sucks. There's no need to sugar coat here, it just sucks. Although I'm pretty OK with creating backgrounds traditionally, but digitally I can't create backgrounds worth shit. This was my absolute best attempt at the time to create a background and I just gave up in the end lol. I thought it was horribly sad that this was the best thing I could do.

Anyways, I had decided to pick it up again for the hell of it, thinking the skills I had picked up might be able to help. Just simply after 30 minutes of working on the grass alone I was surprised on what I had done.

Holy Jesus. I mean sure it's just grass and any artist can probably do way better than this tiny bit of progress, but this is quite a personal accomplishment for me.

I plan to redo the entire background and start over from scratch. I'm actually excited to see how it will turn out if just a little touch up on the grass improved that much. I really hope to release this comic soon, I think a lot of people will find it funny. C:

SkieFire Commission + Spike Bust

Finally got around to finishing my commission for SkieFire. I'm sure he'll enjoy the final product!

Now as for this piece right here.......it has quite an interesting history.

I think it's best if I start from the beginning. OK, so back when I was a child, I watched a lot of cartoons, obviously. They inspired a lot of what I like today. Spike is particularly special. For those who don't know who he is, he was a semi-regular character who appeared on the TV family sitcom series, Dinosaurs, originally developed by Jim Henson.

Anyways, Spike was my first childhood crush as a kid and has always remained as a special character in my heart. Can't believe it took me this many years to even draw anything remotely related to Spike. In fact, I almost feel ashamed for not giving him the proper respect he deserves. The TV show itself was pretty corny most of the time, but it had its small moments with its adult humor. I found Spike the most likable of all the characters, I actually hated everyone else, ESPECIALLY Robbie Sinclair. I *still* don't understand why there are so many fans for him when he looks incredibly ugly as fuck and just has a generally unlikable and flat personality. Spike, however, had the most colorful personality to me. He really stood out from everyone else to me with his "bad boy" attitude and accent, always walking around with his hands in his pockets, making snappy remarks and being a smartass. He was big, he was tough, but even under all that, he cared a lot for Robbie and looked after him closely. He had a heart deep down for him and that me swoon over Spike like a little girl lol.

ANYWAYS.

Spike fanart. Fuck yeah. One thing that always bothered me is that there is hardly *ANY* Spike fanart out there while there is hundreds of Robbie porn. It's ridiculous. And the very little Spike fanart that does exist doesn't look anything like him. Few exceptions would probably be my friend Dreke's fanart. He drew Spike pretty spot on.

As this was dedicated to my favorite character, I really pushed hard to color this to the best of my abilities. I learned a lot just from coloring this piece. Hopefully I can do a better dedication in the future and do a full body pic instead of a bust. We'll see!

Spike from Dinosaurs © Michael Jacobs Productions/ Jim Henson Television/ Walt Disney Televsion/ Buena Vista Television

Art © M. A. "Nidhogg" Guerra

Kinky 23rd Birthday

Birthday drawing for my very close and loving friend, Dreke. <3