Public Service Announcement

As vain as I am, I do an occasional google search for my name to see what comes up. I found, in my most recent adventure, a site that posted hi-res images of all of my blog work. I felt a little assaulted to be honest. After a scathing email, they took my stuff off, but I also found Sam Nielson's work and Ryan Wood art there too. If you have issues with other people making money off of your work without compensation to you, check mdolla.com and you just might be there.

As for Superman, my nephew likes Superman so here you go.

New Series: Golden Axe 1/3

Loved this game growing up. Click on the link for some awesome art Golden Axe.

Red Princess Dragon

My daughter wanted one of these for her birthday. Looking at the internet for said topic didn't really yield anything age appropriate for a four year old so I painted this for her.

Avalanche Art Challenge

This is Joe Olson's drawing.

What Keeps Street Fighter Different from the Rest

Guile, Dhalsim, Vega...when it came out, this kind of character design is what made Street Fighter 2 memorable for me

Sketches, Attempts and Vacations

I think there a lot of species of sketchbook people. So far, I have only been able to classify three: 1.Those who do exactly one drawing per page. Generally, these folks are clean and tidy and their drawing is almost to a state where it could be considered a final piece. 2. those who fill every square inch of their sketchbook with crap that has no correlation to any adjacent drawings and 3. People who draw a crap load of eyes and left hands.
I see a lot of other blogs posting sketches and I never really feel worthy of doing it. Some people are all about sketch blogs and they can get away with it. But after talking with Ryan Wood we always felt that we had to post final pieces for some reason. I think we set certain precedences that we fear to breach. But I figured maybe if I post enough extra content in one post, I can justify a sketch book post. So, here is a scan directly from my sketch clip board. Unadulterated, unabridged, just as you would find it on the cheap printer paper that I use.
This second piece was inspired entirely by Sam Nielson's fantastic figure paintings that he does almost every Friday. It was really hard trying to do this. I found that there is a lot of discrepancies with drawing on a tablet while looking at a monitor while looking at a distant model. I am also jealous that Sam can get a complete product every time. Obviously, mine still leaves something to be desired in the completion arena. Overall, I think I am happy with it??? But I imagine it will be my last time with this exercise.
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Let Us Begin Anew

Orphaned Works Act

I usually keep pretty quiet about social issues, but here is something that I think the blogging community should know about. Should this bill pass to congress the burdon of prove of copyright will shift from the creator of content to the searcher. Meaning someone could take your art or picture of you or your family make a letterhead, business card, sell it on a fetish site (this has happened to me!) and say that they tried to contact or find you. Commercial archives will be able to harvest these newly-created “orphans,” alter them slightly to make them “derivative works” and register them as their own copyrighted property. Freelancers would then be forced to compete against their own lost art – and that of their colleagues - for the new commissions they need to make a living. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I hate watermarks. I am all about share and share alike, and up to this point I have always allowed for high res, no watermark art on my blog. But starting now I have deleted all references for past art and moving forward all of my art with have a crappy copyright watermark. I apologize. If you would like to send a letter to your local senator here is a link to do so.