spof again. what a farbtacular yimpinkilp porfbe development

for the pain frames i decided that it doesn’t take THAT long to draw in the flower and it is an extra way to have the creature emote now that its pupils are not visible. likewise it doesn’t take long to draw the basket so long as i don’t care about it being accurate between the angles or even between frames, and for the moment I do not. of course applying this to the prance movement frames where i had initially elected not to bother will take more effort but it won’t be nearly the worst extra work that i have made for myself.

the feet move on the new attack frames because I thought just standing neutrally looked too flat. i have the power to switch which attack frames come up based on what part of its walk cycle the thing is in. presently in the game any attack uses all four frames but the variation is mostly just for show. So i can make them not just for show, though I want to make some intermediate frames and improved gestures relative to the old frames i SHOULD prioritize just getting all the old parts replaced before trying to make the creature do new things, but i almost never accomplish that.

too much snow and hardware issues to think about anything coherent.

i didn’t even get a chance to check on my favorite yard toilet and how it fared admist today’s snow until quite after midnight. it seems to be in good spirits.

This is important at a time when i am removing nemitz from one context since i need to ensure mit does not try to enter other contexts.

obviously this is still rough and proportioned because i am allergic to having anything complete and ready to use

i wonder if i should give it additional normal “death” flops or try to draw this from multiple angles like i have been making me do with other monsters. the returns on those seem to be quite diminishing but it is still always neat to suddenly see one from a weird viewpoint. but i also obviously have been spending years on largely irrelevant cosmetic elements and tend to forget that other people who might have been interested in this at one point don’t have the same connection to it as i do and probably can’t maintain interest in it as an unfinished product for 5 10 20 years like I can

while the flop was always boring, i quite liked the old “extreme death,” but it really depends on the flower. if i give the flower a stem then i can probably attach it to the prancing frames without needing to make separate left right frames just for the dumb flower. hm hm hm you can’t see the pupils following the flower in the new version, maybe i can make the head turn instead.

i was quite proud in 2004 of how i amended the doom pallete to have the more cartoony fire colors without that ruining any existing graphics, and now they have been completely overwritten, yet somewhat ironically with colors that produce a far more surreal explosion more in line with what i would prefer now anyway, and without much thought i based the new explosion on this, slightly. Not too much, since the old explosion was stolen: the fore piece is from the 1992 sega spiderman arcade game and the other is from final fight, since i was obsessed at the time with stealing graphics from other video games and it also being possible to tell where i stole them from, in contrast to now where i am obsessed with wasting way too much effort drawing everything fresh even when i myself already drew it once.

the 2004 old spof, inside the game, during its explosive fate fires out separate blood objects in a circular formation but I might have the new one launch doughnuts or maybe cupcakes. alas the only visual evidence of this appears to be terrible from inside a video i exported in 2018 but you can perhaps vaguely see purply objects apart from the purple on the spofnemitz sprite itself. this will be important dumb day.

the monster that used to be nemitz changed into a monster that looks like it used to be nemitz, but which is and has been sprite-named “spof” either way. why i think i need more when i can barely run the game now as it is is mostly the fault of obsessive compulsion, as usual.

in fact the latest version of the gzdoom engine is now “uzdoom” after the former maintainer whose name supposedly coincidentally is abbreviated “gz” was ousted for being precisely the sort of person who usually has administrative roles in “communities” related to old nerd interests and runs even MORE worrisomely than before. if i become again willing to take this computer apart and try to replace its “thermal paste” again i can check on if a properly functioning computer can feasibly run this in levels with more than 2 monster types active at once without overheating and shutting off out of presumed rage at how stupid the monsters are. i suspect my hardware is, as usual, as always, woefully inadequate for what I want it to do, even when, perhaps especially when, it is something incredibly old fashioned and stupid. the older something is, the more people selling the new ones want to make it difficult to use. you know that, i know that, but I rarely adapt to it effectively.

to clarify, the “story” i have with this watch out for dopes business< has it taking place before the comic strip in which it is established that whatever elpse and nemitz are is not native to this location so there should not be hordes of them as the dope's adversaries. although elpse also says "we were here first" and elpse is highly ignorant and might not be aware if there are in fact plenty of them still there. i briefly considered making it look like nemitz with elpse coloration with that in mind. and this is all made up nonsense anyway and i can do whatever i want. nonetheless i did not want this monster to look like nemitz and waiting for me to sketch an alternative was not effective. after deciding last week on the "nonsense anyway" option, only AFTER i started redrawing it i finally had solid ideas for how to change it, as often occurs. i do not mind if it looks like it USED to be nemitz, only that it does not look like it is nemitz now partway through sketching in angle 4 it struck me that the purple and green color scheme looks like barney the dinosaur, who has been getting blown up in doom add-ons since doom add-ons have existed. but that is somewhat in character with nemitz, to try and pass mitzelf off as a different character and end up resembling one that is even more likely to deserve to come under attack. i do not know yet if i will also include the flower. in fact i do not even have a longwinded reasoning explanation for why i did or did not include it yet.

Tintin-related commission for relaxingdragon.bsky.social in which Rascar Capac, he-who-unleashes-the-fire-of-heaven, gives a brief demonstration of his abilities to a pair of bewildered onlookers.

initially one of my recurring fools was requested to be in the chair, and subsequently this purple one was suggested, and seems to be handling the situation with more decorum than most of them might.

in fact just over ten years ago I drew this same character in a similar scene also borrowed from a tintin book. I may have done a better job then! however, I appear also to have drawn an awful creature known as “nemitz” into the background which utterly disqualifies it. Maybe that is why I seemingly never mentioned it here. But sometimes that’s just how things are! The world is a treacherous place!

Especially da worlda tin tin. an’ me! wuf!

a commission drawing for Draco Nihil. the task was to recreate something like an unused box art design for the video game “doom 64” with characters that are more reminiscent of mortimewde stapleton meepmire, nemitz, elpse and a dope. this has no relation or compatibility with my gzdoom matter.

i can say i understand why that box art was unused, but not why somebody would want to pay for such a substitute to be produced. nonetheless someone did and now it is your problem
i am far from an expert on the matter but i suspect the original artist invented many of the muscles whose details i have attempted to replicate here

thinking about this brought me back to the “40 worst rob liefeld drawings” page which i apparently have looked at before since I recognize more of them than I should, but last time I wasn’t aware of elon musk and was fascinated this time to see how many liefeld characters seem to have his same tight squinty botoxy face

gosh i didn’t even KNOW he actually had botox. i just thought: this looks like someone who has something wrong with his face that is probably his own fault because he has enough money to buy luxembourg. How does anyone have sympathy enough for this scumheap to interview him about being disliked for doing shallow things to try and make people dislike him less?

elon musk is a lot like rob liefeld himself in that both were talked about around me for years without me having any reason to know or care who they were but they eventually became my problem anyway. I suppose I should be glad to share that problem with more people than dopes and eight squared.

I recently noticed these in my house, my niece must have picked them up somewhere.

I was surprised someone finally made official Don Medusa merchandise! I see they included Skull as well. The Leeper looks a bit iffy, though.

the problem is that even an accurate leeper risks being resembled by nemitz
and the problem with nemitz, apart from the usual, is that mit is violating the 8×8 pixel tile system. Even awkwardly bunched up this is 19×36 pixels. That would require at least 15 tiles, BEFORE any animation or extra angles! Hey creature, you aren’t owed that many and the graphics bank cannot spare them for you! Not to mention this game’s lack of a red-yellow-black palette. No object in Adventures of Lolo uses those colors and they will not be set aside JUST for nemitz! Arrrgh typical decadent irregular mitz.

captain dope deserves only your scorn and derision! it is NOT a real captain!

unless if by “married” you mean “infuriatingly smiled at for an indefinite period” captain dope has no power, much less authority to assist you.

exclusively for the purpose of annoying me, nemitz replaced the bottom of this boat with a screen door and then rowed unwelcomely toward me while smiling.
as to HOW nemitz replaced the bottom of that boat with a screen door, which surely should be beyond mitz capabilities, I know not, but I do know that were it a useful thing to do nemitz could not have done it. when nemitz is around stupid things just HAPPEN.
including captain dope. I had hoped to never see captain dope ever again. Perhaps there is still time not to.

just two days ago i noticed the furnace in the basement here said “granby” on it, which reminded me that nemitz once said “eestgranby” and that I even called mit out on the deed.
the very idea, the absolute audacity, for it to even be plausible that nemitz would DARE declare “eestgranby” in my presence is itself unforgivable.
potentially but not necessarily forgivable, me attempting to integrate leaf shadows for the first time ever across the front of snikpel (angry creature at fore of boat) several minutes before posting this.

why would you name your steel tank company after a nemitz quote unless you were producing military grade tanks because you wanted to remind yourself to shoot nemitz with them?

a perhaps needless clarification: I do not hate religious people. I hate when religions themselves seek to control people with threats and encourage them to hurt each other, which as far as I can tell all religions do, and I have no respect for that.
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this time of year i see manishevvitz products more prominently at the grocery store. i recognize the name because some dumb late night show(s) I used to watch would make jokes about “drinking manishewitz” –because as the wise philosopher Adam Sandler once pointed out, “so many Jews are in show biz”– so I knew it was some kind of wine that you have to drink if you get jewish. But apparently Manischebbitz isn’t the wine itself but the brand which sells the wine, and they have stuff other than that because in Connecticut and theoretically other places, it is illegal to sell wine in a supermarket, and the Manicshevorlet company thus needs some way to remind Jewish people that they have to go buy the Manischewbacca wine at another store before it’s too late.
Thankfully i am not afflicted with religion so I do not suffer such a fate. Religion is like diabetes for your personality. The authorities want you to endlessly pay for and suffer through dumb traditions that you will never be free from, be too busy worrying about what rules you might violate to consider if the rules have any practical purpose, much as pharmaceutical and food companies pay off the american diabetes association to recommend insulin and disgusting splenda that they can charge whatever they want for rather than recommend eating fewer carbohydrates so you never stop having to buy insulin and splenda from them. maybe that is a stretch of a metaphor but the important thing is that unfortunately seeing Manishevitz reminds me that it could easily have been Manishnemitz.


(trashover is a sorriday in which there is a lot of trash going on and you want it over. manishnemitz is one of the leading suspected causes)

When you are serving manishnemitz, don’t bother opening the door and pouring a cup for Elijah since you know he isn’t showing up. a shut door also discourages more fuzzy imps who now think they are welcome from entering.

if i see a bottle of manishnemitz at the store, i smash it on the ground! it isn’t fair to the store staff who have to clean it up but the store itself should never dared to have stocked it. what a horrible idea. what’s next, manishdope? i don’t mind telling you, I REFUSE to drink manishnemitz. i won’t even drink womanishnemitz. I don’t know what the difference is in that context but more people want me to draw men than women characters and the men ones are usually designed grosser and fetishier.

the worst part about manischnemitz wine: it isn’t even kosher. if it is made by dumb imps, particularly ones with pig noses, there is no way it is “clean.” do you think people drink manishewitz because it tastes good? it probably tastes awful! you just HAVE to drink it. i bet 4 out of 5 sederers say the WORST part about passover is having to drink manishewitz, you just DO because it is kosher and a gang of rabbis will pull themselves out of your hats and circumcise your fingers if you don’t drink it, and you ALSO have to wear hats. I learned that from Fiddler on the Roof. That is almost as scary as laser wolves.

and i worry if someone at the supermarket hears me mumbling about manishnemitz and thinks i am being anti-semitic. no i am only anti-nemitic. i realize this is anti-semite fluorish season to give slightly less-right-wing-creeps something to point at as an excuse to keep equating middle-east-except-israel-residency-or-ancestry with terrorism and continue not being held responsible for decades of trooping, shooting and looting wherever they feel like over there and causing such a disaster that leaving and letting the goshdang taliban come back seemed relatively prudent long enough for them to do it and wash their hands of it, but I am here to talk about something much more important, how a brand of wine’s name sounds sort of like that of a cartoon character that I draw.

And i can’t just THINK about manishnemitz, *I* need to hear me complaining to know how it sounds and to stop thinking about it. But I also had to remember it so I could tell you about it. Very important.

a pointless drawing in which nothing happens showing bulma from the early dragon ball comics and unfortunately nemitz from stupid garbage comics. it didn’t seem worth fussing too much over since i never finished the comics and the anime based on them apparently was largely skipped in the US in favor of the Z episodes and more people are familiar with that but i am not and i refused to become more familiar with them without finishing what happened before that story, which as stated I never did. i TRIED but i got the books as gifts, and eventually the gifters forgot which ones I already had, and I am too cheap to buy my own books, AND the various torrents i found are highly irregular, mixing in various inconsistent fan-translations (some with MIRRORED artwork) which were probably in circulation long before the official printed ones I was familiar with amidst bits OF the official printed release.

what the heapdedeep, I know much more about dragon quest than dragon ball, which is also illustrated by the lately dead Akira Toriyama, i should have drawn some dopey monsters from that. (just not healie) (ALSO I forgot I mentioned the Journey’s End Motel and it made me laugh harder today than when I wrote that)

with that in mind i added the annoying blue thing on the left, which appears in the first dragon ball chapter but also is cognate with the “vampirus” monster from dragon warrior 2.

Vampirus, perennial adversary of the Phantom Force

although vampirus is of course best known for participating in the decoration of a worse lizard’s apartment.

with that in mind, get those dumb vampiruses OUTTA HERE

another unfortunate appearance by the dope vending machine

i would ask who was paying nemitz but i know it isn’t necessary for someone to be paying nemitz for mit to be doing something this stupid.

in the sketch it is a generic imp but when digitally handling it I was trying to warp it into the first imp I ever showed getting angry at a dope dispenser. However back when I drew that (several years before the video) I was less diligent about having a creature appear consistent between two frames, and more recently wondered if this creature was likely to be recognized by anyone even if I did come to an ultimate compromised between its two shapes. The important thing is that it disapproves of dopes. I do not think having a tantrum is going to solve the dope problem, OR the nemitz problem, but I never claimed it wasn’t stupid, just smart enough to not want dopes.

the NEXT page should be available before july 19 ends, but I also thought that about July 15, which is why I didn’t say anything.
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page 60 of this

possibly you will be disappointed but it was necessary. I can change the specifics at a later point (as I apparently have done with the scenery in this room numerous times), and to a degree before the next page. somebody I last saw 11 years ago and who no longer exists in any form I am aware of told me never to show this but

that person later also sternly reprimanded me over tumblr for my complaining about excessive quantities of unremarkable nearly identical fanart units and built a shrine to a team fortress 2 character in its home and so I generally do not regard its opinions highly

the “original” design for this character, when identified internally as “pico de gallo,” before I decided on traits that will not be evident until the next page, called for it to have a single eye stalk. However now that Gidjmerg exists and also has a single eye, even stalkless that makes them seem more related than they are. It was also rather bulky but it looks too jabba the hutly the way I tried and decided against here. apart from any of that I don’t want to add more characters that are hard for me to draw, however infrequently they will be seen.
this character didn’t necessarily exist in the old comic strip that kumquat’s ancestor and pog came from, but I also remember drawing it holding a doom chaingun back when I thought that was a “cool” thing to draw. Almost as much as holding a wine glass, even though I had no desire to drink wine and 20 or more years later I still haven’t.

I also drew proto-kaklabesk holding a wine glass, in one of the very few surviving fragments from my earliest doom edits, which is perhaps why I ended up putting its weaponry in the same category. I couldn’t find the chaingun drawing in this sketch book, but I did find numerous pictures of

proto-lope physically assaulting nemitz which hopefully is all the information you need about how my thinking has changed since then. I can’t say nemitz doesn’t deserve it but lope simply isn’t that dangerous.

a video of pictures I made last year set to some suspicious music.
I hope you hate pine cones, since three or four of these pictures don’t have one.

It took a ridiculous amount of time to make this considering that it is 95% comprised of stuff I had already made. My trashter plan to display gzdoom-engine material from within the gzdoom engine rather than as gifs of the source material did not help like I thought it would. I opposed gifs since while I design the graphics grouped, I have to separate them to put them into the game, and I refine them after separation, so I didn’t want the less-refined versions. and some pieces, like the launched yeep parts mentioned (but not yet drawn and so not shown) previously, were separate to begin with. howEVER, since I draw the stuff at ten times the 1993 game’s resolution, and my computer is less than top-of-the line, those graphics need to be reloaded each time the game is started, and then I am having it load extra graphics and generate extra objects on top of that, IN ADDITION to me running video capture software, which means loading all that tomfoolery in an extra window while simultaneously saving a copy of it all, the game can’t help but choke up for a few moments when stuff is exploding. and SO I spent an extra day, two days? trying to reduce that, just a few seconds of the dumb video. And I already spent an extra day drawing all those dumb letters and setting up the circumstances under which they appear and explode. originally they were to use the same explosion frames as the launched yeep globs, hence my using the same colors, but those explosions looked too uniform, unless those were themselves launching more globs, but more globs meant more lag. and SO i drew EXTRA explosions for the letters I and O that would prevent them from needing to launch globs.

but that still means loading extra graphics so it doesn’t reduce THAT much lag. I also had the letters L and F turn into I and G into O as they explode, and that still wasn’t enough! For the yeep section near the end, I had all the pertinent graphics pre-load before I started recording, but that wasn’t an option with the letters because they FALL FROM THE CEILING as soon as the level starts. I COULD have preloaded all the graphics if I had thought to suspend the letters on disappearing floors or had them teleport into the room, but I was too busy to be thinking! I also forgot to set the level to change the colors to something other than orange, so that the aftermush looks less like a nickelodeon logo family reunion but if I had, I would probably still today be trying to optimize or fix it in some way and I am glad to not be doing that.

I can’t even show this picture without needing to explain it. the level editor shows a 2003 dope rather than a 2018 dope because it assumes the player character uses PLAY-named sprites, but the newer dopes have DOPE-named sprites, and I simply never took out the old sprites. the weird background is irrelevant; it is the first graphic in the definition file, since for some arcane reason that graphic shows up invisible in the game, but not in the editor. I needed it invisible so that the background shows through it. there are other hacky ways to make the ground and walls invisible but everything I do is already hacky so I preferred something that worked consistently.
these are off-center relative to the player character’s viewpoint because they seemed to my own viewpoint to be showing up offcenter when I placed them IN the center. However by the time I made the video that seemed to no longer be the case but I was too tired from the endless re-records hoping for less lag and more interesting random splat locations, then inserting that into the video, cropping out the wrong takes, then moving it to the front, then dumping it all that since I wanted to go back and change something else in the setup and then need to re-record again, that I left the positions alone.

“AASCREBO” will go to the top of most lists. It is not necessary for the list to be alphabetical, but I was trying to amuse myself. Regular Doom2 calls it

which I dislike seeing in the list, and regular regular Doom calls it

which I hate even more, and not just because the base-2 display system means you aren’t actually ALLOWED to make 24-length wall textures! Even if that worked it wouldn’t work! screbo is stupid garbage that nemitz says, and I had already changed the poison logo to feature nemitz, so it fits. I placed it over the pile of skulls that is shown by default after coloring them purple. I don’t want any of the base game’s graphics in this, even edited ones, and nemitz endorsements of rubbish are anachronistic within this project’s complex chronology of being set before nemitz, but as noted previously these don’t actually show up! but even THESE are a problem since floor graphics are backwards on the ceiling. If I want to control invisible objects that it is possible to move beneath, I risk seeing not only a backwards S but a backwards nemitz inside the level editor’s 3d view mode. What could be worse than that? I probably won’t find out until I try to make next year’s video.

and after all that, I today realized: the ORDER of the primary content is terrible. It starts on a snake comic strip that nobody cared about and then ends on generic wall textures that nobody SHOULD care about. I should have started and ended on stuff with meaning. I too more concerned with irrelevant nonsense to consider the marginally more relevant nonsense. There is probably an important life lesson there but I am too concerned with complaining to process it right now.

my scanner is old, like me. It gets upset if you try to have it do something without advance notice, however I wanted to show this in the absence of better things to show.

or perhaps it objects to the subject matter. Certainly, a dope vending machine should not exist. But if you SEE one, do not put money into it if you do not want a dope, even IF it has a “no dopes” button. ESPECIALLY if the no dopes button says “out of order” on it. It almost seems like these idiots secretly WANT dopes. Not me; I just deliver the news about dope-related wrongs. I presume the first and second dope-protestors are different characters, unless dopes really are so dumb that they can cause people to transform into ludicrous imps like them.

lately this website also gets upset if you try to have it do anything, but that is for no reason.

which fits in with my other content rather well, I suppose.

It has often been said that if you hold an Ortega brand taco shell to one ear that you can hear New Jersey. I do not think that is true; I have been to new jersey and it does not sound like taco shells, but nemitz is ignorant and inclined to hold fanciful beliefs.

I have received word, late, and vaguely, so that I had to directly inquire about it, and so learn yet later, that the art shows I attended in person that were cancelled Cuz Covid for three years is returning in person this year. I am absolutely not prepared for that. I spent those three years jumping between various matters that are unrelated to in-person art shows, and eventually assumed this one simply never was coming back. I didn’t regret its loss at all and didn’t investigate other art shows. But feel like I MUST attend, even though I am not ready, lack time and resources to become ready, and even though I have to pay money for the right to do it. My life is silly. Consequently I have little patience for imps with BIG SMILES that listen to taco shells.

a vaguely sketch-like commission for a human called gingle of a frustrating imp called elpse

I was requested to have it mirror the pose of this this similarly insufferable imbecile called nemitz from 2015, and so it does.
also this website’s twentieth birthday was two days ago. That is not important. What is important is that it has existed for more than half my life. My life is not important if all i have to show for it is a website which also is not! However I also have elpse and nemitz, lope and dopes. Consequently my life is an unforgivable travesty.