Oxenfree: Let's Be Free

Played Oxenfree after a friend recommended it to me purely for the soundtrack. Solid game with multiple endings and overall interesting story. 10/10 would listen to the soundtrack again.

Death Egg Finale

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is considered by most to be the best in the franchise and also happens to be my personal favorite. The climax of the game on the Death Egg is epic. You face off against Metal Sonic's predecessor and then Dr. Eggman's Giant mech. As a kid they were tough as nails to me and probably why they left a lasting impression. There are no rings to collect so taking even one hit means certain death. Anyway, here is Sonic going fast...as he does.

  

Here is some battle music to add to the ambiance.

Nidhogg: To The Victor...

A fun tribute to a fun game. Always wanted to experiment with the animation feature in Clip Studio Paint, figured this was a good place to start. The simplistic Atari style graphics of Nidhogg made it easier to render the figures. I can definitely see myself doing more simple animations like this in the future.

Shadows Over Camelot: Heroes and Henchmen

  Finished painting these a few months ago but am just now getting around to posting the pictures. These are the rest of the miniatures from Shadows Over Camelot, an Arthurian themed cooperative board game from Days Of Wonder. The color design was made to look like the artwork from the game, nothing creative on my part. 

All main characters and relics

Excalibur, Lancelot's armor and Holy Grail 

Excalibur, Lancelot's armor and Holy Grail

King Arthur

Sir Galahad

Sir Gawain

Sir Kay

Sir Palamedes

Sir Percival

Sir Tristan

Saxons

Saxon

Picts

Pict

Boozy Smooches

I came home after a night of imbibing copious amounts of bourbon. Ruth's only response to me stumbling into the bedroom to let her know I was home and to give her smooches was "you smell like one of my library patrons."

She requested I draw this to illustrate her disgust of my boozy smooches. I don't get this drunk often...but when I do I am either a machine of rage and destruction or on this occasion a sweet, ginger bearded buffoon.

What a patient and tolerant person I have married.

We Are The Crystal Gems

These doodles are the result of binge watching Steven Universe and discussing with some close friends about what each married couple would look like fused.

Ruth and I agreed on our fusion looking like Ruth but we would have my beard except with a silver streak down the middle. Our power is similar to a bag of holding from D&D in the form of a fanny pack.

Our married friends agreed on wearing a fashionable black jumper (I added the shoulders) gold tipped sandals, and lots of rings and jewelry. Their weapon of choice is a spiked camera(holga) flail

There's A Greg In My Pocket

All Bobby wants is to have a borrowers sized version of his friend Greg to carry around in his pocket. Pocket Greg mostly just asks for food advice but occasionally gives inspirational quotes such as: "Gossip is my chief export!" and "My cat is not fat!". He comes with a sock cap, sundae, totally not fat cat Weezy and a backpack to store said items.

Ruth In Japan

What Ruth imagines life will be like for her while in Japan the next two years. Biking in Hokkaido, all of its cutest critters tagging along for an adventure.

Shadows Over Camelot: Catapults

Brother asked me to paint his Shadows Over Camelot minis, finished these siege machines up while watching Daredevil season 2. Turned out darker than I had hoped, lots of washes but not nearly enough. Shouldn't have went with a black primer on these...overall happy with how they turned out. Rest of the minis are primed white so should get better results. More minis to post from SOC to come, stay tuned.

Lady Snowblood

Sat down to re-watch Lady Snowblood, a classic Japanese film form the 70's, with Ruth recently. She has never seen it and I forget how similar it is to Kill Bill. For anyone who has not seen either there is no denying where Quentin Tarantino got his inspiration for his Kill Bill films. Everything from the plot to the non-sequential narrative framing of chapters, down to the music and old master that trains the main protagonist Yuki. 

An ultra-violent bloody masterpiece written by Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub) It comes highly recommended for anyone into samurai films or want to see how much Tarantino plagiarized or pays homage to this film and it's sequel. You can find it on Hulu under the Criterion Collection, but don't wait too long because word is Hulu is losing the CC soon.                                                                   

Mice And Mystics: The Heroes

These are the heroes from the board game Mice and Mystics by Plaid Hat Games designed by Jerry Hawthorne. The color schemes are standard, the look of each character based on their respective card artwork.

 I painted these over two years ago and finally managed to get photos of everything. Overall, considering these are only about 5/8 inch tall, I am satisfied with how they turned out. 

Starting on a new miniature paint job for my brother's Shadows over Camelot as soon as I find the time. 

Collin, the prince

Filch, the scamp

 Lily, the archer

Maginos, the mystic

Nez, the tinkerer

Tilda, the healer

Bears: Family Portrait

On the back of the photo it reads:

A momma and her baby with the dinner they caught

Summer 1956

V-Day cards: circa 2012

I always forget about the existence of the cards I draw, until someone reminds me... Here are some Valentine's cards I doodled for my coworkers back in 2012. Mostly inside jokes, recipient interests or discussions about pop culture.

Ragnar Starbeard and the Hutt's Cache

Ruth's reaction to me using the drill at 9 pm. As she screamed at me, brushing her teeth in the doorway, toothpaste shooting from her mouth, I couldn't help but notice in that moment her uncanny resemblance to Selacious B. Crumb. The inspiration for this setup is from the Bill Watterson comic Calvin and Hobbes, notably the Spaceman Spiff strips. In it Calvin imagines the events of his mundane life as an alter ego space explorer named Spaceman Spiff.

ZMR-B0

A co-worker and I somehow arrived at this design based on a discussion of his passion for dropping elbows on everything. Which evolved into a Gundam whose primary attack is elbow dropping. The end result is this fearsome mech with tiny arms named ZMR-B0, a combination of my co-worker's last name, and the -bow in elbow.

ZMR-B0 could also double as an arm wrestling mech.    

When There Is No More Room In Hell...You Can Wait With A Game Of Zombie Cribbage?

For Christmas, Sarbob thoughtfully gifted Ruth and I with this bizarre zombie version of Cribbage. I was excited to find out there were miniatures for which to paint. The ones pictured below is how they look out of the box. Now I just need to learn how to play Cribbage. 

This is more or less what the four miniatures looked like before primer. Some weathered green/grey coating that makes them appear as statues. First step was to coat them with white flat acrylic spray paint. None of the steps are pictured, cut to, end result. I've always been a fan of the pale blue zombie makeup from Romero's Dawn of the Dead, so I went with that look, They all barely measure an inch tall and there is little detail to pick out since the molding is low quality. Given the circumstances, I am pleased with how they turned out.

Ruth picked out the colors for the Cyndi Lauper and Roy Harper from the CW Arrow.