Thursday, June 21, 2012

Dr. Which?


Another piece in honour of Diablo 3. A game with exquisite cut scenes, and RSI inducing mouse button clicking gameplay. The multiplayer is the way to go with this as the game hits a substantial difficulty spike after "Nightmare" mode.
I do like the Witch Doctor as a class, taking everything that was awesome from the Necromancer and the Druid from Diablo 2 (and the expansion) and improving it with zombies and a menagerie of deadly critters at your command.



Wednesday, June 20, 2012

TYT The Young Turks 2012

Jayar "The Reverend" Jackson, Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, a triumvirate of AWESOME! 
I stumbled across The Young Turks on youtube a few years back and I gotta say it made the transition from television to almost exclusively internet based information and entertainment much easier as they candidly and conscientiously make the news and current events informative but interesting.



M. Bison caricature

Source of inspiration...Bane of my existence.
Mmmm... That's some damn fine bison!
M. Bison from the Street Fighter series, there was something menacing and diabolically self aware of his position of Boss in the original game, which became popular in the early 90's. I first discovered this when I attended karate classes as a kid and the place was home to an arcade machine fascinated though I was by this amazing (for it's time) fighting game I was also without coins to play so I just watched the looping clips and being a PC gamer fighting games would become a blessing and a curse.
Bison just got his nails did.
My phone currently has an app for this 


I would later become quite adept at getting my arse handed to me, usually by Asian kids with mongoose fast reflexes and the ability to fire off special move combos which would leave me aghast at my fallen hero's lifeless body on the flickering display standing there with no more coins for a rematch.
I drew this one as a concept piece that would accompany a series of caricatures of my favourite video game characters, in this case Street Fighter.
Raul Julia 1940-1994. Played M. Bison in the film adaptation of Street Fighter.

Kind of like a Nazi or Soviet officer (remember it was 1991, the U.S.S.R was still around) who'd basically tapped into "The Dark Side of the Force" he was an enduring heel to main protagonist Ryu.
Though he'd later be supplanted by Akuma he holds an honoured spot in the classic rogues gallery.
The "M" in M.Bison stands for "Massage"
Little known fact: The Death Star was carpeted.


I think his real power came from how much of a snappy dresser he is.

Go Jeera 2004 a student work, photography


Sunday, June 17, 2012

Back in the Day Babes, Carissa Walford 08-08-2008

I dug this one up from my early days in 2008 I met model and cable TV host Carissa Walford when she was a "Smokin' Hottie" reporting for Fuel TV. She's since moved on to host on Channel V but it was a lot of fun drawing my first celebrity and filmed doing so as the X Games where being held at Luna Park at the time.  

SUPANOVA Sydney 2012 Day 2.