Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Cath Ulu.


Who answers the call of Cthulhu? His personal assistant, she also receives the emails, organises the meetings and schedules lunch for the Elder God's clients.

Mr. E Nigma



As he appeared on the classic X-Files episode Humbug



Friday, July 27, 2012

Aang the Last Air Bender caricature

After seeing The Legend of Korra, the mini series based on reincarnated successor to Aang from the original animated series AVATAR.  Which was based around a little kid with arrow tattoos found frozen in a massive block of ice and called upon to save the world, arguably the greatest cartoon Nickelodeon has produced since The Ren and Stimpy Show and Rocko's Modern Life to site a couple of examples of great and underrated shows.




Legend of Korra- check it out, if you haven't already.

Ghost Riding on the Wall

Jump rope with Johnny Blaze.
Ghost Rider, one of the iconic badasses of the Marvel comics universe, a fascinatingly complex and with an undeniable aesthetic all his own one of the most under rated of the heroes. First up his powers are granted to him my the Devil, his costume consists of black motorcycle leathers studded with fierce steel spikes with a long heavy chain as his weapon of choice... and his head is a flaming skull! (Though I'm sure his entire body is a demonically enchanted skeleton with fire for flesh) Before getting his powers his alter ego was and is a stunt bike rider Johnny Blaze, portrayed by Nicolas Cage in both film adaptations of this pure fun story, and by that I mean what the movie got right about the character balances out what the movie got wrong...grain of salt stuff really.


This frame also makes for a very cool tattoo I've heard.
What awesomeness looks like.


Mah face is on fire!!!




And it's also one of the greatest classic country music songs of all time, though the band Spiderbait did a fine rendition the superior version will always be that of Johnny Cash.


I can't exactly remember the year in which I made this one, I tacked on 1994 because I'm pretty sure that's the year I made it.
This piece was my first attempt at Ghost Rider; drawn painstakingly a pixel at a time on MS Paint during the mid 90's on the home computer. The digital version is still on a 3.25 inch floppy disk somewhere and this was scanned from the only known print I have. The video games being produced at the time had this pixelated 16bit artwork and I found it very easy to emulate after figuring out the zoom in focus. To anyone who's never used MS Paint for Windows Version 3.1 on a 486 PC, imagine drawing with a soap on a rope with the most primitive drawing program available (which was for its time cutting edge).
This program was surprisingly fun to use, you just needed to be patient, for about 5 more years. 


 My favourite part of this drawing was not only how well it actually turned out in the scan after all these years, (my plastic sleeve storage policy seems to have worked) but the jaw bone, I think I may have been onto something there.






Monday, July 23, 2012

URBANE KEEF

Charming, rustic and mysterious, not just for the unexplainable success outside of Australia that he's enjoyed or the fact he was able to rescue Nicole Kidman after the Tom Cruise Affair... It's the hair do. A strange conglomeration of "The Rachel" with Dixie Chick bangs and a mullet with sandy blond highlights coming together on the head of one guy. Seems like a nice enough fellow.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

St Elmo's Fire




My little tribute to the monster movie posters of the 50's, it's Elmo devouring Sesame Street- Elmo was introduced to the show in the 1980's as a minor character in an otherwise massive support cast of muppets. These days however, the show seems to be entirely about him! Though some things can be chalked up to nostalgia for the days of a Jim Henson helmed Sesame Street/Muppet Show, but after watching clips comparing the old with what passes for the show these days it seems more insipid and pandering fan service. But I get it he's cute he's fuzzy and red and is a main character marketing power house however http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo#Criticism_and_controversy






Parklife July 22 catch