Mexican Wrestler and taxes

This time the entry was suggested by Alt Gr, a mexican. And in an incredibly stereotypical move, he asked for a drawing of a Mexican Wrestler doing something cool.

Yes, he's doing his taxes! Granted, that's not really that cool, but can you picture how insane it would be if you did them dressed up as a Luchador? Everything's cooler that way! Even boring taxes!

Also, a little video. Mexican Wrestling is awesome. Mascarita Dorada ("Little Golden Mask") can kick any WWE pansy into submission.



Can you say "little power ranger luchador?" Yes you can!

Suggest me more stuff to draw! See ya tomorrow!

TF2 Spy/Engineer fanart

Today's entry suggested by Dwei! Dwei is a great guy, he constantly writes about his life and his toughts. And as a university student with poor health, I can relate to a lot of his posts. His lungs are giving him trouble lately, hope that he gets better! Go to his blog and give him a virtual pat on the back.

"You taking suggestions for other video game characters? I request something from TF2 or Metroid"


Well, Crysalis already did something Metroid related, so I pictured I would tackle TF2.
This is my first time drawing these characters... I haven't actually played the game! I'm the world biggest hypocrite.

Imperfect border transparency! You can't see it unless you squint! I guess it fits well with the Spy theme?

When it's the first time I'm drawing something, I usually practice on regular paper. This time I sort of liked this drawing, and was kinda lazy about inking it and coloring it on the computer.
So instead, I scanned the pencil art and painted directly! It was kinda weird. I still prefer to outline my stuff before I paint it, but it was a nice change of pace.

This isn't gonna end well, Engineer!

Buffy comic at least!

Just one of them

It's not even that funny, why did it took so long?

I did this traditionally, as in, ink and pen.
The problem is that I used only a dip pen, and I didn't have any markers or anything. So it took me close to an hour... only in the panel borders. I had to do all the horizontal lines I could, wait till they dried really well, turn the paper around, do as much vertical as I could, wait till it dried really well, finish the parts I missed, wait again... It was torture! I usually do the borders with a marker, but like I said, I didn't have any.

I HATE YOU SO MUCH

Then I inked the baloons, freehand (you can tell, they're kinda wonky). And only then, the characters!

Again, this has to be done in order, you go from top left to bottom in every panel, otherwise your hand can go over a fresh line and mess up everything (well, top right to bottom if you're a lefty). This page is cartoony simplistic art, and it took me like an hour to finish, as well! I was being veeeery careful. Thick, dry-fast ink clogs my pen nib so I had to use regular black "oh, I won't dry in a million years" ink.

Then I painted on photoshop. I wanted to do a lot more cool effects and background colors but I got bored and frustrated because I was supposed to upload this YESTERDAY. So there.

At least I can go back to regular schedule, I guess...

(I need new pen nibs!)

Oh, now you're screwing with me

Damn you to hell.

Welp.
Here's the sketched page. The inking stage is missing. The whole inking stage. Blue Screen. You cad. But hey, at least you can read it! I'll hopefully finish this soon.

And here's another page, from another Buffy comic. Drunk in sheer rage, I went all traditional on this one. CAN'T BLUESCREEN REALITY, CAN YOU WINDOWS

EAT MY SHORTS, VISTA

Sadly, you can't read it well. Both because of my handwriting and the low resolution, I guess! Still... soon!
(BTW: How do you write this? "Giles birthday present" or "Giles's birthday present"? How do you even pronounce that last one?)