Been a while since I made an update so I figured that Putting my Project up here would be a good start. First I have to say, thanks from the bottom of my heart to all those who either commissioned me or donated money over these slow 3 months. The rent for all the websites came up a few days ago and I was able to renew because of you guys with the only bad news being that I’ll have to stick with who I have for 12 more months (yes I know the sites are slow ).
In January I got some visits from my overseas buddies and we went hung out at the Furtherconfusion convention in San Jose drawing and soliciting, Hugs and kisses to you Ken and Tamara!( Love the Soulgain and Arios model you built for me mwhhaa)
extra special Good news, I am back on assistance for the time being (due to good legal cause) and I’m beginning to churn out some color artwork that Ill put up here soon. Been working on a sexy spaceship picture that’s about 80% finished, and ill put it up soon as I get to B.Coons python character ink. ALSO, I said I wasn’t going to insert evidence of my connection to my certain other websites up but I need help If this is going to succeed. **Everyone** please take the time to visit my Kickstarter page and donate what you can to the cause: Robots_and_Dragons this sucker will only last for 55 more days or so..
Seriously visit my kickstarter page gogo*
image courtesy of pixiv.
Its been 2.1 months since Ive had stable work and I had to take a double dose of fluxo today just to leave the house. Everyday has been a chore just to leave the bed and leave my room. And Since September 30th nothing has gone right, My unemployment fell through, cant qualify for snap, and my older former employer keeps telling me “we’ll call you.”
My friends and family keep trying to call me, But I just cant face them. I’m sorry people, I know you are just trying to see how I am doing, But its very hard to be optimistic right now.
As for the artwork, its true that Ive fallen behind. Im on my last pic for Andey but it has been difficult to draw mecha H when feeling prosperous and sexual is the very last thing happening to you. I guess I’ll probably go hide out at Peet’s coffee and attempt to finish it today, after that I don’t know what I’m going to do.
Featured image: marco
Well folks, Here we are: week 2 of unemployment, My sleep schedule is all fucked up, and my company (who hasn’t officially fired me, is giving me the run around.) I’m kind of at a loss of what to do right now and while i have a lot of extraordinary help in my life, I’m short on funds in a Big bad way. The websites are payed up through the beginning of march so no worry’s there yet, and a fellow mechaphile “Jane-sama” came through for me enough to make rent. If I can just get one more commission this month I’ll be in better shape, But this brings up an on going problem I now must face. If my new career is going to be as an artist, I’ll need around 10 solid commissions a month (hopefully more then just porn) just to survive and that means building my clientele, shifting the focus of my art back to monsters and setting up kick-starter accounts to save my comic and make a book. In this economy that is not an easy feat even if your semi good at it. So I’m kind of scared right now.. It be really nice if my employer actually Got back to me like I keep hoping they will, at least then I could get some hours and claim under-employment. Sorry for the TMI.
Commision status:
1-2. Jane-Sama
I was in a terrible funk last week over what happened with me and my boss and decided to visit /m/ out of boredom. Occasionally, I do encounter some gems but rarely do I ever come across a piece of sheer polished platinum such as this: Rockman Megamix/Gigamix by Hitoshi Ariga.
I want you robot fans to take a good look at the cover of this manga, especially if you are a classic Megaman fan because THIS here, this is the Creme of the crop, THIS is the Pise’ la resitance. When I saw someone post page samples to this manga I thought to myself “Great this is going to be another Bass/Proto man jerk expose”. Instead I did a little research and found the first part of this series through The manga fox website: Megamix and dove into it with a “try before I buy” attitude. What I found was something so true to the core of the original game story I couldn’t help but be taken back and wonder why something like this wasn’t available 10-15 years ago when I was huge into the fandom. The manga fills in the atmosphere of the futureistic world and focuses primarily on the robots with their individual personalities. Weather fighting on the side of Good or evil the robots relationships with their human creators and with themselves is what I had hoped the lack-luster American cartoon could have captured but failed miserably. Huge honorable mention goes out to the sheer development between the 3 robot scientists Wily, Dr.Light and Dr. Cossack who frequently appear quite a lot and have their own complex back story touched upon in the volumes. According to Udon Entertainment’s website, “this was agreed upon to be the best of all the mega man mangas ” And being so grateful to have discovered this artist I’ll say, Hell yes it is. with A clever mix of grim-dark and a sprinkling of comedy goodness, I hope that you’l check out the website with the picture samples and decide to pick up the hard copies from amazon.com or so: GIGAMIX Samples
This comic is still an awesome read even if you never experienced the classic megaman games, if your a sentient robot fan, YOU WILL enjoy this. Bare warning, the final volume of Gigamix wont be out for another 30 days so be patient and pre order a copy from Amazon.com
^ best EVE online image this month thanks to Dustybat for contributing. If any of you have flown a Drake Battle cruiser for a few months this is pretty much what it looks like when you stumble upon a big group of them.
^ Spent the better part of an hour with my roommates trying to identify the robots from this image. (right click on view image for large size) and we got a good solid 80% of them I.D. ed between all 3 of us. Truly the most epic kind of nostalgia.. Did you guys see evil robot Bill & Tedd yet?
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The news: I miss updating my comic 200% right now, I haven’t had the heart to put up a hiatus sign up because I want to keep updating, but my current job situation has grown hostile towards my art. In the past I used to be able to update 6 times a week when the building was still serviced by my old company and my boss Curtis was very laid back. Lately however, Things have become so micromanaged that I’m finding it impossible to do the commissions I desperately need, the resumes, personal art AND the comic.
This brings me to my main issue. I need more commissions badly from folks, why? Because Things have gotten so rocky with my current employer that I may be out of work soon. In this economy its really hard to find a work ( an art job doubly so). Without going into too much detail let’s just say working at a company for 7 years is not enough to save you, (do not rest on your laurels) as I am forced to find other revenue sources in the meantime and send resumes out like tic-tacs. If any of you have seen my main art site (witch I cannot link here) let me know what you think would make it a stronger body of work and please please Don’t be a stranger, I love reading your responses.
*new poll
^ First off, Is this what I think it is? because HAHAH that’s great!
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A girl I know once brought to my attention a fantasy she once had about a colossal sentient spaceship that rescues a little girl from deep space and then ultimately raises her from within. This ship grows to care for the girl who matures into womanhood, and must continue to coexist in the belly of the machine where there are no other voices to interact with, but the ship itself.
This is kind of poignant because I started playing a little bit of eve online. Eve online for those who don’t know, Is a Sci-fi space MMO where you link up to a ship and coast the galaxy in search of wealth and discovery. I started to ask myself what the difference between a sentient robot and a sentient ship was besides shape and size. Based on Gail’s original fantasy story, I thought about the potential sexiness that could arise If a ship fell in love with you (if the A.I. was that advanced to have emotions.) What kind of relationship would a captain have with her ship from within? Could it be sexual, and if it could, how? why?
Granted, their is nothing like this in Eve, there are no sentient ships. you become the ship itself by merging with the central OS with implants. But How big of a stretch would it be for a sentient ship to claim a human as would a sentient mech? If you are a macrophile is this an idea you could get behind or is it just plain weird? I am befuddled by this idea because of the whole Dave vs hal9000 debacle, and that My roommate informs me the sentient machine fetish is beginning to stack new and weirder aspects. Honestly I think its hot.
Could you just imagine if you got captured and the spaceship had to obliterate a space station to rescue you?
Coming up next: Brave police H pic.
After dealing with the death of my mother, After having busted both ankles on one stair, after having a paycheck all screwed up to hell, I have just one message: It sucks being old.
I was just having a conversation with some friends about how the human body was not meant to live too far past age 30, as if the premise of the movie “Logan’s Run” had the age number spot on. people spend so much time fending off hair, armpit smell, dandruff, bathroom necessity’s, menstrual cycles, flu, gas, sagging, hunger, cold, and everything else that will just come back in a day or two is it any wonder what’ the point of being so flawed is? We live 70, 80, 90, years now and the problems (like for instance, sprained ankles) only get weirder and wilder as time goes on.
It’s a real pain in the ass being a human. If you guys wonder why I practically worship the robot well partially, If I got rid of all those problems I just listed? We’d all be machines. And I’m ready for my cyborg body now.. please?
To quote Derek: “When I die, somebody is going to have a lot to answer for, and I want to have a hand in my re-design.”
In other news, Another friend pointed me towards a musical done by the Avenue Q and creators of Southpark called “Mormon the musical” Its offensive and hilarious and I recommend you stream it (from NPR website here) Mormon The Musical
Oh yeah the smoking orange kitten is also amusing too: Intervention .
-R
I took a week off work to get some serious portfolio artwork done, but the admin introduced me to a game called Minecraft and I wasted damn near the whole week playing this shit. Its evil, such an evil little game..
Oh! yeah I also have some Mime artwork and a comic page on the way.
<image courtesy of penny-arcade.com>
*also: I started playing the DS remake of the remake of the first front mission game. Kinda ironic that years later, I’d be playing an improved version of a zsnes emulated rom that was wiped out from a windows virus.
It’s over. The final episode of SRW Inspector:
**Watch it now**
News: Been a while since my last post here on the blog. Things here have been rather hectic emotionally and financially but nothing compared to the crap Japan has been facing. Infact I noticed the number of actual mech pics tanked dramatically in favor of big titty monsters on pixiv, So their hasn’t been much incentive to post. I did however get a viewer request from an artist named “Erin” (writter of Heroman fics also) who is very much into Heroman, Tf, Vocaloid type stuff. As a fellow mecha/robophile Its my duty to spread around the clangeddy-clang goodness and present to you the official pixiv link: E-Primette here are some samples of the gallery if you cannot veiw pixiv:
Speaking of SRW, this week Ive had close to 5 robot dreams in a row, Most notably the Granzon who is this xbox hueg beast of a black hole generator robo. Ill be sure to post pics of the mech in the gallery if you aren’t familiar. Either way, Im thinking of doodling some Jankey-ass porn of him. Defiantly have a thing for the “big’uns”
So folks, the last of the first round of commissions are done. I’m going to be sending the originals out shortly as soon as I get a few missing addresses. their is still time for a few more jobs, But I’ll be returning to my portfolio/comic project asap. Pic on the front page is courtesy of pixiv member “Dakara”.
**The Art Debt List**
5. Antipathy—-100% Wingxdrift
I wont give you a description of the above image, Ill let you decide for yourself how “slashy” it is. Also, check out the video below.. its creepy and awesome.
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