Cavestory is cool

And to think I used to say I'd never make fanart.

Yes, fanart. I made some fanart again. This time I made some for the game "Cavestory". I can't say enough how much I appreciate that game. Its an indie game. Made by one person, over a period of five years. It looks retro, but it plays like a modern game, with good music, story, action and multiple endings. And even though it might look cute, the difficult level of its endbosses is anything but cute.

That being said, I havn't yet been able to kill the final, final endboss. Which will give me the best ending of the game. The other endings are nicely fitting in the game too. But its funny to see the level of hardness. Lets write it down in a timeline.

:start:> ah easy, tough bossgetting tricky, holy crap evil boss, oh my god :o, ...not possible<:end:

And when I entered the last level all the previous stuff seemed like childs play. But don't worry, its not that hard after all, you just got to get used to it. After that has happend it actually is a pretty fair game to play.

But moving on to the fanart. I can say that the sketch was rough in pencil form, and when I inked, it was still full of mistakes, notice the words on the left. They indicate what I still had to change when I went digital.

And notice the panic face of Curly. That was definatly not in cue with her character.

Curly Brace and Quote fishing by ~wulfnstein on deviantART

The bus will soon be here

A lot can happen when you stay at one place, waiting for a bus.

This saturday I went to another town nearby. Thinking to myself: "I'm sure I'll find it in that shop". I was looking for masking paint. Cause it would make the work on one of my paintings a lot easier. Sadly enough they didn't have what I needed. So I'll either have to go look for it somewhere else or I'll have to make due without it.

Without my price I returned back home. So when I was at the busstop I saw that it was canceled because of some work on the streets. I walked a bit further to the next busstop, and the next one and even the next one, and after that one I got to a point where the bus was again stopping. It might sound like a loooong way, but it was just a walk around the town. One quarter of a circle.

When I got to that busstop I saw the bus driving away from it. So I had to wait for the next one. Which eventually came an hour later. I didn't know that at the time since there was no timetable there. So I waited. And during that time I saw the police stop at the motorbike shop behind me. They arrived with only a car but left with a car and a motorbike.

But the funniest I saw was the thing I have marked with the green arrow on the sketches. From around the corner I saw a man pushing a wheelbarrow. And in the wheelbarrow was a little kid. They stopped a few meters in front of me and started working in a small patch of garden. And the little kid was like the assistent. Helping as best as he could. At the end they left in the same way. The little kid in the wheelbarrow that was pushed by uncle Eddy. For that was what the kid called him.

And when the bus arrived I stood up from the ground and left the little live-stage.

Jimmy "oneleg" the pirate

I hate it when I'm drawing and suddenly photoshop crashes,

for no apparent reason!

While the drawing below was being constructed I had a stupid crash of photoshop. For no reason what so ever the helpfile opened when I chose a color. Sure I moved my pen a bit odd, but still. Even if I accidentally opened something. Why on earth would it want to crash just by that.

So I lost a lot of my work that I had done. Let me tell you, if it is very late you don't like that. A good thing it was late enough or else I would have been swearing way to loud. But yeah, can't wake the people here now can I.

Anyway. I made it this wednesday evening. I could have uploaded a Ninja Ferret, but since I don't want to get the label of being lazy I made a new thingy. Ow well it has been a fruitfull two days. Ninja ferrets and flying pirates. Great stuff.
I wonder if I could combine it...

Jimmy the pirate by ~wulfnstein on deviantART

Dragons

Maybe I got a little bit inspired by "How to train your dragon".

Just a little bit really. *looks innocent* The pencil sketch of the top left dragon was hardly anything like the inked version. I altered the eyes and the legs completly. And the ink version looks cuter and more acceptable then the pencil version. The other dragons are a bit more lizard snake like. Definatly not as Dragon as I had thought they would turn out to be.

The woman was drawn from a beautymagazine at work. When I first looked at it, I thought that she was just another of those good looking models without any imperfections. But on a closer look it appeared that her ears had no earlobs, which I found very perculiar. And her nose, the tip of it was very flat too. Those were some things I only noticed after I had started drawing.

So I think that a saying I once read somewhere is true. "To draw something is to truely look at it". Or something like it. Only when I paid attention to how the lines were going I noticed how they were not going in the "regular" way that the body was suposed to go. Now after I made the sketch I sorta made an ink version of it where I filtered out the realism stuff and went for a more cartoon style.

And if you ever lose at a cardgame just get a dragon to fix your problem.

Easy drawings are easy

When you dance, don't care.

This wednesday was rather interesting. I spend some time on a drawing and making a recording of it. Again. I find it a bit odd that I made a full body figure and then cropped it down a fricking bunch, deleting a lot of my work. Not that it was that hard. The drawing didn't ask that much attention and it was done fairly quick. Frankly I shouldn't even post it on Deviantart I supose. Yet somehow I can't resist the urge to post it.

Dance dance by ~wulfnstein on deviantART

Notice the socks. If you watch the speed making off you'll see that the socks are actually way to large for the little dancer. This is something that comes from me. Most of my socks are also to long. My excuse is very simple. They are large, so I don't have any trouble slipping into them. And frankly I hate it if my sock are to small and my feet have to suffocate themselves to get in my socks. That's why I like to wear larger socks. And just like you should do while dancing, I don't care about what other people think about my big socks.

A day to the cinema

I wonder if the bus would stop for plants?

Today I went to the movies. To watch hickup do his thing in the movie "how to train your dragon. On my way there I was sitting on the bus and noticed a peculiar thingy on the other side of the road. At one of the busstops I saw some plants, waiting for the next bus. Not a single human in sight, so they must have been old enough to travel alone. I wonder where they were going.

While I was waiting I sketched a little bit. There was this poster of a new movie, "kick ass" I think its called. I tried to get it on paper. Some sort of batman like figure. It failed like hell and so I tried my own version of it. Today I did make a lot of sketches, but I dont think any of them really will be worthy of a greater title. But hey, its practise.

Bakermonium

A request is just a request.

Some time ago I was asked to draw some original characters. Were at first I was a bit reluctant to do so I did gave in to my curiosity. Its always interesting to see how a character of someone else turns out in your own style. So that was an extra motivation to draw it.

Though I'm not completely pleased with the endresult. It feels that something is missing, but I don't know what. I did try a new thingy with this drawing. I made the outlines fade out when they go towards the edges of the drawing. It felt right that way.

And I've been listening to some soulsister songs today. Made in Belgium, but yet its not to bad. Check it out if you need.

Bakermonium inspired by ~wulfnstein on deviantART