a commission drawing for a person called relaxingdragon1 in which some subway graffiti comes to life and seems interested in why a relatively small raccoon person is not interested in it. This was complicated to draw and I do not totally understand its appeal but more people seem to like it than usual. I presume most of them did not notice the nemitz.
a suspicious drawing of sherry the talking mouse from several Ultima games abusing gargoyles with their own boomerang
I always liked the Gameboy game Ultima: Runes of Virtue. Attempts to directly port regular Ultima games to consoles felt unfinished and misguided, beyond even the degree to which the original non-sequel Ultima did, but Runes of Virtue was a specially crafted Gameboy action puzzle adventure perfect for the short play sessions that Gameboy was specially suited to.
DESPITE the very stupid dance that Sherry does at all times.
In frap it was only this past month that I saw enough of Ultima 6 to realize Runes of Virtue directly follows it, as back when I played Ultima: The False Prophet, its super nintendo port, I found it less unfair than Ultima Exodus, also a Nintendo system port and the only other game in the series I had tried, but still too unclear in its goals to get very far in. Nintendo versions hiding the title numbers didn’t help. BUT recognizing a bunch of the character names and concepts from Runes of Virtue helped me appreciate what I could of it slightly more than I would have otherwise. Certainly more than if I had known of and played the bewildering nes port of Ultima 5 instead.
Though it turns out to be the most accurate and playable Nintendo system Ultima port, that still was not enough for me to crack, apparently. Perhaps its most egregious offense of is presenting Sherry as an isolated-use item whose only purpose is retrieving a single essential item and optionally running under locked gates to steal other treasures or move switches, provided you think to try that,
and who inherits the hero’s neon green poison aura when deployed if you happen to have one available
rather than a fully functioning combat party member whose 1 strength allows her to only wield the likes of a boomerang, but with 27 dexterity, out of a maximum of 30, for deadly accuracy.
I actually have a legal copy of this game and apparently generated a character in it years ago, probably around the time that I regretted playing ultima 1, without going any further, and imagined it should be pretty easy to get to the same place the youtube video was at and take my own screenshots, since youtube pictures are ugly and the person whose video I took those from is an irritating bonehead anyhow. As hokey and annoying as Ultima is, I appreciate the progress it made across a few years and the influence even the shoddy ones had on better games, and reserve the right to laugh at them on my own terms, without condemning them. Some dork reading all the dialog aloud, stuttering half the time, and constantly interjecting snarky comments and complaining about how it is different and better in Ultima 7 makes it take longer and also me to hate him more than the video game he is suffering/cheating through.
But I was today unprepared for how irritating it also was to control Ultima VI even on its intended platform and how infrequently attacks connect even with high dexterity (though more so than without), so I could not easily recreate the scene. But I had already made the dumb drawing so felt obligated to try for longer than was sensible. I thought eh it can’t be THAT hard. I just need to kill ONE big gargoyle out here to have an unblurry picture of its body on the ground and then I can edit the text to say that Sherry did it.
sensing my unvirtuous inclination, an invisible doppelganger of the king Lord British with no property except raw scorn suddenly got a turn and crashed the game when I tried to enter a command and then stared at me disapprovingly until I forced dosbox to quit
one of these is from 2004, the other is from a bit more recently. The usual story applies to it: I expected a certain difficulty level and it became exaggerated beyond what I could handle, foremost on the least important sections. the front view (1), the most important and most likely to be seen view, was easy. side-front (8, gets mirrored to be angle 2) was a bit harder, then side (7 (no not THAT side 7 (don’t worry if you don’t know what that is)))was horrible, and side-back (6) was a disaster. in part because I kept trying to match it to 7, even though 7 was horrible. i ought to have drawn over angle 8, but i didn’t because i was using the OLD old old 2004 version as a base, even though the old version’s angles matched even worse. i was even conscious of how poorly they matched at the time. although looking at that again did at last convince me to add stripes. Thankfully stripes have not been a disaster yet, though i have not tried to draw them on the copious amount of earlier redrawn sprites of this… thing. My best decision over the 2004 version is blocking the back muscles with that pathetic half-cape. I didn’t know how to draw back muscles then, and I STILL don’t. This new edition of the monster is old enough that I no longer recall if that was why I added a cape, but there do not appear to be other conceivable justifications.
angle 8 actually doesn’t have the far hand out far enough; trying to match angle 6 to it also held me up somewhat. Since it doesn’t look BAD on angle 8 like it does on 6 i don’t NEED to change it.
no I sure don’t.
please do not make me change it, me.
the fool (that I drew, not me) yet has no proper pain frames; in the past this motion was used both for a close-up attack and a non-violent reaction to experiencing violence. For the moment that shall continue as I am rather worn out from the length of time necessary to draw it. Going forward, assuming I am not cursed by a being beyond my comprehension to remake my own old unreleased material for the remainder of my lifespan, I want to include more expressive characters, but that will require fewer moving parts. even minimally detailed ones like this become a problem when there are so many pieces. If this gets any more frames I hope they will have the courtesy to be non-rotatable!
although mercifully and surprisingly these are still in stock so perhaps I should order one. Gosh I’ll SAVE so much MONEY!
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.
a yeep floats in five directions
a yeep has a problem in five directions
a yeep explodes in five directions
its tentacloids and eyeballs disappear because they launch as separate objects that are not necessarily coherent in gif form. the body dissolves since i want to have an all-directional mass of glop appear in its place, since non-moving, irregular objects can look really awkward with extra angles. Which I know because several monsters larger than this one DO have multi-directional bodies when punished and can look quite awkward. And I will likely leave them like that, but I can be cautious about creating more like them. sometimes
this latest yeep differs from past yeeps in that it lacks a darker colored midsection. I tried to sort out what that was and how it worked and could not, and so now it is not there at all. Much like several components of this website, except for once I took out something I didn’t understand on purpose.
the old exploding yeep did not need to launch the tentacloids since it only exploded from one direction and did not need its body to dissolve and be replaced. In trying to solve one problem I continue to create one or more others. And I yet do not know how i will sort out the tentacloids. The present single one in the south-east angle may not be viable since it does not take into account the possibility of the yeep exploding while off the ground. ALthough the old yeep didn’t actually finishing exploding after being beaten and launch its eyeballs until it landed, so perhaps this way IS viable. i think overall whatever result i get this time will be superior to what I had.
the old exploding yeep is actually not nearly as old as its other sprites; I drew the explosion in 2017. prior to then its body only had a single dissolve frame and i considered the pink blobs launched from it to be sufficient. I actually changed that because it looked really depressing if the sprites were browsed outside of the game, or pog forbid if somebody warped to level 30 and tried to force the original doom 2 monster roll call to appear, where none of this stuff looks right, that one would look especially not right.
NOW if somebody tries that the game will show sprites too big for the screen, or just show the regular game’s monsters, or crash completely, so REALLY I can get away with doing LESS for the yeep now instead of more. But I seem unable to do less unless it truly matters that I don’t.
a commission drawing for sigarette fawn teeth of a deer like creature with angel-like features. I was concerned I would not be able to execute it adequately but I may have.
The large version of this picture currently linked is from an embarrassing website but that is reliable for such hot linking because its code is notoriously outdated and its security features notoriously absent.
because I still have not looked into replacing the “coppermine” gallery display software. I probably didn’t install that, but I do not expect that would help with something that waited until 2022 to break down, and so it MIGHT. When I will get to a position where I can look into checking on trying out attempting to figure out what I can do with that is similarly ambiguous.
it is more probable I will work over my lower right unused pose suggestion before I do anything useful.
I avoided knowing or caring who Elion Muskzales was for years, and he suddenly became relevant enough that psychopaths I was within the pretend internet social radius of started talking about him and I still don’t understand what is special about him because there are a lot of shoddily managed businesses out there. Yale New Haven hospital is full of nonsense like this; it bought every other hospital, and then had freedom to make everything worse, charge customers more, give them less, promote more boneheads, cut benefits to and assign absurd shifts at random psychologically damaging hours to the actual good people working for them, and all that sort of thing. And as far as I can tell that is the ultimate goal of capitalism and it is all the rage hatred and fury right now. Any business entity that ISN’T that WISHES it was that. It just doesn’t always have a singular funny-looking billionaire mascot with a stupid name at the top to adoringly attribute every asinine and or misanthropic decision to. Of COURSE Trump fans love that creep. They WISH they could have that much money and so little regard for humanity. I don’t understand that at all either, but again it appears to be common.
I am not sure what the rainbow grunk is. Initially it was all green, then I added more colors, and wondered if I should change it into gummy bears, but I don’t think i could make anything that small read as bear-shaped if I dumped the time into trying. but this is progress, for me, since in the past I WOULD have dumped that time and had nothing of value to show for it. Which is not to say I have time to spare, now. I merely incurred less time debt.
I still haven’t fixed the broken image gallery system. I suspect that I cannot. The descriptions for how to do that, as is typical, assume I didn’t just run some automated installer years ago and then edit stuff AROUND that in order to just barely get it to work, and actually understand code or am paying someone else who does. Does this LOOK like a website that has enough going for it that its owner can afford to pay people?
I also don’t have time to keep making these dumb little comic strips. When am I going to be able to get back to my dumb big comic strip if ideas for these that seem manageable enough to try and make keep coming to me?
as always, it needs more refining, but is far along enough now that I was able to remove the sketch and tracing paper layers for this part which allows me to get more control over the rest of the layers since flash has an appropriately outdated interface on which losing track of numerous layers is quite easy. The next section does not involve these two dorks sharing space with each other and more importantly doesn’t have them both in front of and behind any detailed scenery that I need to break into pieces and across yet more layers so ideally that will require 3 and a half months instead of 4 to get through.
I recorded, hopefully, better voices a few weeks ago but have not had the proper mood to go into the music editing program recently to attempt to implement that or check its adequacy for implementation. I may also have said that weeks ago. I no longer have the energy to verify what I said when since I use so many stupid websites now. I try to keep this one as the most special but it tends to get the scraps, unfortunately, though these days my scraps are often more dignified than my finished pieces.
I was trying to sort out what prints I had, and saw an old picture that I thought was funny but could be improved. It wasn’t this one, but when trying to find the image file for that one I found this one first. As with that, I thought it was funny, and finally saw what was wrong with it that I couldn’t make sense of years ago: the two primary figures have different line weights. ha I know how to fix that, just make the lines thinner on the bigger character. BUT since I saw the resolution was lower than my present standard, despite being more than high enough to make an 8.5×11 inch print, and me not INTENDING to print this anyway, I redrew the whole thing, but still couldn’t be at peace with my way of using lines from years ago, and so started blending it up, and the more it changed the less what hadn’t changed still worked, and now it is a mess. And it is the only thing I worked on today. a FEW parts are better but the primary part is not. Bad bad bad.
this also reminds me
An unimportant non-player character in some dragon-warrior-looking nes (I think) video game proclaims “Good good good.” when talked at by the player, possibly after some objective has been met. I thought this was in Star Tropics but that seems not to be the case. Whatever was it?
am concerned it might be Ultima Exodus. I don’t think I have it in me to seek out all the inanity-spouting imbeciles of that Sosaria in the near future.
I last played Ultima Exodus so long ago that the blue-armored dork here is literally the first time I used the name “Elpse.”
Inexplicably a text dump of supposedly all the dialog in the game has been made, and “good good good” was not in there,
though this is almost as dorky a thing to say. Within the context of the game, surely I am too BUSY failing at saving the realm to read books. Within the context of somebody playing a game, obviously I am not reading books nor likely to any time soon if I expect to complete this game without cheating. Though I question if it is possible to play “properly” and not lose. There may be a larger message here, but I am not playing real life properly and such a message may seem like an excuse. But even trying and failing to improve one’s singular, limited skill is more productive than trying to crack NES ultimas or regular ultimas. Unfortunately I already determined that nearly ten years ago, so even learning from that I haven’t really gotten better at.
I had hoped to present this as printed art-work for the october art show i keep worrying about but not really doing anything solid to prepare for, if anything can be done at all, but it may need to be reconfigured as a horizontally oriented piece, or a thoroughly print-incompatible square, since it continually mutates. When it started it only had five characters!
if you had told me that including final fantasy auron would have made this picture take so much longer I would have believed you, but I wasn’t going to ask you about that! but his shiny belt trinkets give toejam something to look at once I finally looked up its original game and realized it is not a prankster sort who would be tripping whirloxandra (pitchfork-bearing swamp beast) on purpose, at least not without making it look like an accident. Not that anyone knows Auron has belt trinkets but he certainly looks weird enough to be accepted as having belt trinkets if you didn’t know he did. But does shining force domingo fit in here? Not really. but having domingo small on the left (where shining force gaiden’s pink clone amigo presently is) just because I thought of it late didn’t seem right since I like Shining Force more than most other video games. Maybe I will think of 12 more mouthless video game heroes and hero-adjacents that will make this setup totally dysfunctional tomorrow and that will save me from believing it can work.
I worked on a few cheap commission drawings this week. “commission drawings” being pictures that other people paid me money to produce.
this is not one of them
I am still not impressed but I am content to use more civilized text entry to say so. I need not reduce myself to this imbecile’s level.
I will however unfortunately need to widen this picture if I want to put it on instagram. I do not want to do that. This moron does not deserve more space.
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an addendumb: I did widen the picture. it was still not wide enough to not have the upper and lowest edges obliterated by the instagram machine, but i decided it deserved to have harm come to it, even if the affected portions of the image were relatively innocent.
thursday june twenty third: a prolonged serious of miscalculations means that an intended wednesday update can happen friday at the earliest
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a mantis person for goldquiver
a shiny lizardoid for mallac721
a cowboy wizard lizard or something person for derse. the arms look very strange to me now even though I only drew this two or three days ago.
a paint-loving coati-sort for austin dern
these are getting out of control and non-sketchy already!
and a gremlin a person identified as woot master
this also got a bit complicated, but I like gremlins.
I mean that I like some of the typical visual characteristics of gremlins, but I do not like having my airplanes sabotaged with buckets full of dope juice
I have not given people the choice of suggesting difficult to draw content or that additional characters are fundamental to the picture being acceptable, but the bigger problem is always that I will take it upon myself to complicate matters.
I did it free “sketch” give-aways twice before, and both times before long I started putting far more effort into the pieces than I had initially intended to. I took steps to prevent that this time. My steps were erroneous but I didn’t agree to draw for nearly as many people; only ten or eleven so far rather than 100-112. I still lost count but it is a loss much more easily covered.
I really should be making comic strips or beet cartoons, which is potentially why the urge to initiate this sort of offer keeps arising, so my best hope is to let it rise and then flatten it as soon as possible.
Howdy I added more words beneath this. It has many links. You should ignore them, they are just there so I know that I know what I am talking about.
a picture I am prepared to provide context for, and possibly improve, time permitting, but time was only just barely permitting me to make the picture as it is.
oh jolly good here it is.
in 2004 i wrote a spiteful web page about the old even then Apogee computer game cosmo’s cosmic adventure despite taking enough of a liking to the game to complete the full thing, a feat i only managed with one other apogee game (arctic adventure). I thought it was obvious that I actually did like the game based on the amount of screenshots I took and my meticulously title-taggging every single one of them, but it wasn’t and I rather annoyed more people than I entertained with the page, I fear, and after my fashion amitz that period was not very pleasant about it. I entertained myself plenty, fortunately. I totally forgot some of the strange junk I made for and following that.
I wouldn’t put forward such effort to abuse a character I hated. The original appearance of this is somewhere in November 2005 and only makes slightly less sense outside of that.
In case it also wasn’t obvious from some odd bits on the page like the side border, I DID in fact find the full version for free at that time and had played through some of it, but must not have reached the ending since it is frustratingly daft. I do feel bad about calling $10 for the game “laughable,” it really isn’t that much money and i enjoyed the game plenty more than some sandwiches i paid more than $10 for on more than one occasion. After starting on this drawing I finally went ahead and did pay for the game just to feel less like a creep, ALTHOUGH the price NOW is only $6 and i don’t even know if Apogee actually gets a cut of it at this point since they are selling it through Steam and Gog and have casually placed some deviant-art person’s labored, if somewhat out of character illustration as the listing page’s header without credit, but not altered the page text at all in the 18 years since I last looked, if ever, thus retaining the moronic line “who has an overbite like Bart Simpson?” like they don’t care, like they ever did. anyway now i just have 300 video games and 3000 soundtracks to pay for and my conscience is clean. if i ever actually played it again i would probably still use the setup from 2004 that i already have, though.
BUT THE IMPETUS for all this was me recently having occasion to view somebody yet else’s videos of playing through the game and was reminded of a truly iconic and strange moment from video game history, in which cosmo saves duke nuk[e]m from certain death and only receives a hamburger and a plug for Duke’s then-upcoming sequel in return after hoping for help from duke’s substantial firepower and longer life bar collection. (I also mentioned that on my own 2004 web page but I only re-checked the page after watching the video)
the hamburger IS one of only two items in each episode that increases the amount of green health Now-and-Laters from 3 to 4 to 5 and does make a big difference in the context of the game, but Duke starts with 8!
the original duke nukUm did not wear sunglasses and for whatever reason in the cosmo cameo has a blue shirt after wearing a pink one in the first game, but my skills are limited in such a way that this just looks like a weird George Takei if i omit the sunglasses. in fact even the present official release of 1994 Duke Nukem 2 has been altered so every picture and sprite of Duke has sunglasses, because otherwise it looks like nobody specific.
Jet-packs don’t work the way I have drawn this, but I couldn’t find a picture of how Duke’s works, since in the game you don’t see it since you are supposed to BE Duke, and when I tried to use a moderately “realistic” jet pack here it looked worse than this, if you can believe it,
and besides that I couldn’t fathom somebody being able to run around and effectively fire large guns while equipped with one.
yes I spent a substantially longer period drawing and trying different things with the secondary character here than anything else.
have you noticed that the things i think about and spend the most time on are almost always the least relevant? have i asked you that before?
a great deal of junk has been affixed to my refrigerator by other parties, and I rarely pay close attention to it. As someone who uses the appliance to store food and also eats food periodically, I am more concerned with its interior regions. However recently however by chance I happened to more closely examine a bit of the out-side and was rather disturbed
I don’t understand why I have to put up with this nonsense in my own house.
the magnet for “clinton little league” and also some boat club were still on the refrigerator from its previous owners when we moved into this house. The punchable cat mermaid was not. These things seem to follow me around. I can’t stand it. It looks like it should be wearing a bowtie. no! no, it shouldn’t. never-mind. i didn’t mean that. PLEASE…
oh fiddle deef deef I fell for it again.
a commission drawing for a person called Kynikos dragon, whom I drew a picture for previously but evidently never bothered to post here so that is how it goes. But this time in any case it features an unreal degree of foolish impudence, because the scene is ostensibly based on a screen capture from a video game called “unreal,” hence my titling it “unrealenting dopiness” on art-focused websites that I use and that also demand titles. People probably just think that I spelled “unrelenting” incorrectly. Or maybe do not even realize that I used an unorthodox assemblage of letters. My website content may overall be getting dumber and more hurried, no thankage to dopes (they contribute to dumbness but I would never thank dopes), however my spelling is not!