HeMan Half Hour sketch

He Man Rawks, quick sketch as I've already mentioned.

Chicken or Sausage!?

Chicken or Sausage!?

Now I'm a married guy, and I like women it's true, though
I hide this under a veil of disinterest as like I said
I'm married. Truth be told I take the opportune moment
to steal a peak at "other" women but like I tell my wife
it's purely for reference for my art. Now I had a look at
my art collection(Art I've created not purchased) and lo
and behold it's a sausage fest. Guys, monsters, muscular
alpha male types brandishing axes' sword's blah blah,
women in my folio roughly 2. So what's my point?
If I ever want to look at reference again, I had better
bash out some chick pic's!actually, females do pose quite
a few conundrums for comic book rehab artists like myself.
How do we make them look like not just another cliche?
you know large breasts and just wearing a bikini to a world
war you know the annoying predictable stuff. Actually when
I figure that out I will post, but for now here's a cliche.

The Game's industry is in a bit a of dark place at the moment.
for many reasons, and I will want to discuss that but not right
now... I'm up its 7:47 and i just want to post something quickly
and get to work. OK this image is a little window in to my
process, some may be a little erked by me giving away the Trade
secrets but alay yee fears, I will only give them a quick peek
through the looking glass!I'm working on another home project,
I don't want to say too much yet anyway on to the image already!
here is a work up of this image from grey scale to final.
I flipped and flopped it around alot trying to decide which way
to face certain elements. I think I got it right.
this image has a nice energy. well I like it, do you?

Viking's, Friend or Foe?

I want to know why Vikings are so cool? I think for me
it was probably they are just hardcore-tough guy's
with real attitude's you know what I mean, they would
jump in a boat, when the snows melted or whatever, Row
into the night without a map... well without SatNav
anyway and roll up outside a harbour and just roll in
and well take whatever they please. It's not so much
the taking or the raping, it's just the sheer bravery
or stupidity... Why did they resort to such drastic
action? who was the first viking to decide that
pillaging is waaay easier than say farming and trade?
maybe they had nothing that anyone wanted to buy...
anyone know? tell me... oh and here's an image of
what a Viking's house definitely didn't look like

Random images! or are they?

First Ramble "Ramble on?"

So my first Ramble: I am a fan as we know, of games and film.
Success... how do we measure the success of a game or film?
What makes a hit? Well, how much it sells? that's probably
a massive proportion of the puzzle. Another might be
whether it receives critical acclaim from reviewers and
another measurable might be how long it echo's in popular
culture. Arnie's quotes from Terminator 2 are still
floating around, though I would say they are definitley
on the downward slide (not a bad effort though, "I'll
be back or asta la vista, baby has been well and truly
done to death for the last 15 yrs)So at it's core it's the
idea... right? because a great movie grabs the viewer and
inspires them. They want more of that world or universe or
want to see more about a character... is this the same for
games? do games have the same traction with their audiences?
I think they do.

If so, does that mean that a great idea is fully translatable
between mediums? and if so, doesn't it then make it more
important to have a great idea for a world or a universe or a
situation rather than just a specific type of game and platform?
Sure you might still want to delineate your target audience
but at the heart of your product, be it a game or film or whatever
you have to have an idea that's compelling (there's a vast amount
of scope in that statement)compelling can mean just about anything
lol So that's my opinion, Great idea's create great IP which in turn
can beanything!film, comics, games, board games etc.

What do you think?

First Post!

Ok I'm here... some may say it took me a while but heck I've been busy.I'm going to populate this eBlog with Art and ramblings so please come by again really soon.

Ron AKA CarefulConan