Seriously though how do you draw guns

I’m working on a self-portrait in a Borderlands-y kinda style to practice doing stuff with my tablet. Also because I am stupid excited about Borderlands 2, and fairly vain.

Uh, those things in my hands are going to be pistols (once I figure out how to draw pistols) because I was a rockin’ gunslingin’ ranger in the first game! A couple of those masher pistols and nothing could get in my damn way.

Here’s what I’m working on for fun lately - a design for an eventually space-faring race of crocodyloid, factultatively bipedal aliens (in a video game setting, so with laserzz and guns and stuff). I’m settling in on this gross morphology, probably going to end up tweaking a lot of details as I go along.

Right now I’m kind of fiddling with armour designs. As opposed to humans, who started wearing clothes as insulation, these guys are ectothermic, and I’m planning for them to have started wearing clothes as protection before having it evolve into something more ornamental. Since they have hard scales and scutes on their backs, I figure they’d have the most need for armour to protect their bellies and heads when they stand up on their hind limbs. I might work up from a “primitive” early armour design and try to figure out the evolution through the centuries, up to some kind of futuristic clothing/armour that allows personal temperature regulation, so they’re not restricted to sunbathing and such.

Haven’t got much in mind for culture or social hierarchy so far, but I’ll want to sort of plot it out from early evolution onwards, because so far I think that’s the most “natural” way to design a species. This is my first time doing something like this though, so it’s a lot of trial and error, but it’s a really fun exercise for me, and I’m doing an embarrassing amount of research.

Eventually, once the design is more solid, I’m going to draft a skeleton, and try to keep it as “realistic” (in context) as possible.

thebrazenhead:

Illustration for the McGill Daily
”The BP Oil Spill: One Year Later” - Andrew Komar, April 2011

Photoshop

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Uhh yeah this is that thing I painted drunk on New Years

Today in vague nostalgic restlessness:

I’ve been spending the morning trying to figure out when it was exactly that I chanced upon Penn and Teller, and I’ve narrowed it down to late 2007-ish. February of 2008 I sent this drawing to Teller as a bit of a birthday present, and got this response a couple days later:

“That’s really an elegant bit of work. Really full of character.
It reminds me of a famous classic drawing. What am I thinking of?”

I also got this signed in November of 2009 when I got to see their live show in Las Vegas, and after signing, Teller asked permission to add a string suspending the apple in mid-air. Unfortunately I didn’t bring it with me when I moved and apparently I never scanned it. To be honest, I’m a bit embarassed I didn’t make a better piece for him to sign, but I think I’ll get the chance again someday.