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.