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Grieverjoe (Jose Alvarez) is NOT a whiny emo as his name would suggest. He's an IT student with a love for art.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Manly... guys?

Anybody here read Manly Guys?
About a month or so ago, I decided to draw a bishified Commander for Coelasquid, the comic's creator, just for the hell of it, but never did finish it. Well, it turns out, she beat me to it. I mentioned it to her because I found it amusing that we both had the same idea, and she said she wanted to see it.
So I finished it tonight. I had to go through an official! (imaginary) checklist to make sure I got it right.

Ahem!

1. Crazy fucked up anatomy (pecs are square... right?)   -Check!
2. Adonis-like flowing gold mane?   -Check!
3. Replace every article of clothing with leather?   -Check!
4. Comically over-sized accessories?   -Check!
5. Flawless skin (no hair below the forehead! Ew!)   -Check!
6. What's a waist?   -Check!
7. Fucking sparkles or some shit!  -Check!
8. Weird, creepy-ass 'I want your penis, even though I'm totally straight' look?   -Fuckin' check!
9. Kawaii shit and my name with "-san" attached to it?  -Hell yeah!
10. EYEBROWS ON TOP OF THE GOGGLES!   -Check!

Please, no critique. I already know he's perfect. And gorgeous.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

15 minutes again

Number 2 of the 15 minute sketches.
I've been playing PSO a lot lately, so I drew this guy ( I play a HUcast, yay).
Is there a way for robots to look sad? 'cause this one does.

Friday, January 27, 2012

15 minute sketch

I'm trying out a new thing: sometimes, I'm in the mood to draw, but have no ideas in particular. In those cases, I will set a timer to 15 minutes and just let my hand go crazy and draw/doodle/sketch whatever the hell comes out.
This is the first of such exercises, but I will be doing more in the future.
When my wife saw it, her words were "John Marston!"

Superhero costumes ideas

As I said in my previous post, I drew my wife's character, Laele, in her superhero persona. Kathy pointed out that she looks just like a regular Ragnarok Alchemist wearing a mask, and it's true: the idea spawned from the time my wife decided to put a simple mask on her character and call it a superhero disguise.
Keeping with the theme, I designed some superhero costumes for her, so that she'd fit in more properly with the superhero idea, and, of course, she picked the one that looks the most like her original Ragnarok costume.
Below are the costumes I drew for her, number 4 being the one she picked.
Which one is your favorite? :)

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Still alive!

My wife got me this awesome sketchbook for Christmas, as well as some pencils and pitt pens, and this is the first 'real' sketch I did on it (I've done more, but they're mainly for testing out the paper.)
Her character Laele, in her superhero persona (I've been in a comics/superhero kick lately, so this was a lot of fun.)
She ended up looking more cartoony than what I would've liked, but it only took me about 30 minutes and I didn't really plan it.
In the future, I might revise it with a little bit more forethought. In the meantime, here you go.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Skyward Sword

3 hours into the game and I already want to choke her. Curse you, Nintendo!

Monday, January 2, 2012

First sketch of '12

A sketch of my wife's gypsy Aveil. I tried to make her look like Megan Fox...
About one hour.
Fuck yeah, first post of '12! :D