MADAMA BUTTERFLY

More mouse shenanigans. Yet again using another drawing program with no undo feature. Hence the ~Rodin \ Cubism-esq legs. I just ran with it... BOOM!

SPINNING BIRD KICK

I have no Wacom. Back to the stone-ages of mouse drawings. Plus I used a program that has no undo. You can NEVER be this hardcore!!!

Shuuuuuush, I know the face is bent!

TESTING, ONE TWO THREE...

I didn't mention it in the last post, but I was not in good health when I started to colour and letter that cartoon. That's why I didn't bother doing what I was going to do with the speech bubbles -which might have made them look slightly better. But that's not the point. Soon after I had done it, I had an incident with a cat. I don't know how malicious this kitten was intentionally being, but it jumped up onto where my wacom tablet was and knocked it and the pen tool, as well as the mouse, into a basin of water. Ironically I was clearing the way to move this basin, which probably cause the cat to go off on it's exploration of my keyboard area. Known as 'Keystation Alpha Zero' to the military. I unplugged it and hadn't used it since. Just incase there was some excess water. And this is a test I did today to examine functionality. Not scientifically mind. In fact I had itunes and other applications going in the background, and my computer being not fast at all by today's standards, I was getting a few straight lines where I was drawing curves. Let's hope it's okay. Talk about bad news after bad news, eh? Then I got a stalker. He used to work on Ren and Stimpy and now he wants to get passionate with me. No way dude, this isn't a sequel to Onwards and Upwards [which he 'wrote' - would explain the lack of humour]!

TURTLE POWERLESS

The last ninja turtle post had a bit of a rush job [comparatively speaking!] on the cartoon. Now here's something with more of a narrative. The composition might be a bit cramped. You should have seen the first layout I did - April had a full bodied shot in her negligee and she was touching a turtle. Phew, glad no one was forced to see that one! The area of the speech is a little bit weird, I know, but I composed it without speech bubble in mind [although I had a rough outline of what I wanted them to say. Speech would also work with just Raphael saying "See it? SUCK IT". Also in that last post I made reference to the lyric 'worlds most awesome fighting team'. I think it was infact 'worlds most fearsome fighting team'. An apology goes out to the families hurt in this gross negligence.

NAKED THUNDERCAT

You know those hairless cats which women like? And you know those cloth-less women that men like? Well I put them together to spite all of you. That's your punishment for not making any orders on my latest venture.

THE GLAMOROUS WORLD OF SMOKING

 Drab.

CHIN-CHINNERY, CHIN-CHIN-CHEROO

It's been a while. Take a seat.

KNIFEY KNIFEY, SPOONY SPOONY

NOT Aeon Flux.

DAUGHTER OF RAMBO[W]

No gun-flash means no hassle.

AVOIDING TANKGIRL

The clothes look stupid because she originally had a [quite conservative two-piece] bikini. But swimsuits look out of place anywhere but by a large body of water. They look cheesy. Like cheap underwear.

IT GETS WORSE

In more ways than one.

KISS KISS BANG BANG

Yer, so I need to work on my gun flashes. A bit of Rumiko Takahashi type eye, but not enough to look good.

BEACHES

In a recent post, an anonymous commented that I was a "panty waist". I think what she\he was hinting at was that I had gone soft. I must admit to the sporadic bout of poetic prose, but I just can't help my romantic nature. However, to remedy this situation, and to regain the respect of a stranger I don't know nor care about, I decided to get back to grass roots. More guns. More women. More bikini action. Too bad I bastardised my original idea so much. 

WINDS BLOW TO THE EAST

Love looks to the west.

THE INTERVIEW

To compensate for her lack of experience in the corporate banking sector, Janet knew she had to make an impact at her interview.

crsP VALENTINE ADVICE

Give her your heart, and she might pretend to not notice your fingers as they skim across her breasts.

MYSTERY BOX

I changed my mind about making her take a dump, but some of the clues still remain.

LADY SINGS THE BLUES

It's not referenced, so don't think it's of any person living or dead. 

IF I WAS SPIDERMAN #01

Scratchy. Plus I lost all the detail from the pencils when inking her face. She looks like she was hit with a frying pan to her face. Probably should have used reference for Spiderman. Oh well.

HERMY OH KNEE

In their efforts to sexualize Hermione, the film makers have lost focus on two facts. Firstly, she is a witch, and secondly, she is described with big buck teeth and bushy hair. All of which are integral to her character in the stories.

Hollywood seems reluctant to acknowledge the literal descriptions that authors place in their books, disregarding plot, changing characters, and 'fixing' dialogue. Every book is turned into a boy meets girl predictable tale. Lord of The Rings is another example of a poor book to movie translation. Potter was hacked so much that, though I had recently read the Goblin of Fire, even I and the person I watched it with [who also read it] were thoroughly confused at the film. The narrative had been killed. Characters would do things for no apparent reason. They tried to form a romantic link between Harry and Hermione, knowing full well that there was no such suggestion in the book [the films being behind the book, it was quite obvious where the romantic ties lay - but you can't have the lead character not get the girl in Hollywood]. The book had a mystery who-done-it plot. But the moviemakers decided this might be too difficult for a filmgoing audience. So they revealed the killer at the start. Genius.

Had they bothered to be more faithful to the book, they would have produced a better film. The book reads like a film. It's plotted like one. So what gives?

P.s. I know she looks like  a monster freak in my drawing.