Art in New York City

Being from Seattle, I found myself delighted at the chance to poke fun at the art scene in New York.

I love Seattle, but why poke fun at Seattle artists with a comic when New York artists are practically cartoon characters already?

Degenerate

This is the first comic I've ever drawn that ever hung in a gallery for any reason.

Go look at it, and at the off chance you're in New York City, go look at the original at Undercurrent Projects!

The King's Breakfast.

The King is a fussy man.
I said it.
Check under the break!

The Magic Forest: Anime

I just finished watching Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt and this comic wrote itself.

Enjoy!

Some Character Work

In preparation for a full scale comic I've been doing many things. Firstly, I was trying to think of a title. And now I have a title, although I doubt you will understand the reference. "One Is Silver"
In Girl Scouts, back when I was small, we had a song we sang about making new friends but keeping the old: "One is Silver, and the other's Gold." Since friendship will be a theme in this comic/story and since the lyrics allude to the titles of the games themselves (Silver and Gold), I thought it was perfect. I hope you like it to.

The other thing I've been working on is my characters. Drawing isn't something I claim to be fantastic at so I've been practicing a lot. Like I promised last week, I have character sheets to show you! I hope this will help you, the reader, get to know the character a little better. At least visually. I'm only posting four because Eva the Skarmory and Jade the Tyranitar will not be joining us yet. Each sheet also has three adjectives to describe each of the characters I drew.

Enjoy!

A taste of things to come

My plan was to have some character sheets up today to help get you, the reader, a little more oriented with the characters. Life happens so I've made a lot of progress but they still aren't finished. That said, I didn't want to leave you guys empty handed this Thursday! So here's a sneak peek at the kind of stuff you'll be seeing from me soon. If I get them done this weekend I'll post them! Anyways, let me know what you think! More soon! (click the pictures to make them bigger!)

The Magic Forest: A question of factions and civil unrest.

Read it under the break!

SoulSilver Comic beginnings

I haven't been able to come up with a title for this comic yet. Let me know if you readers have any ideas!!!
This is basically an introduction to our first 4 characters. I hope you get a sense of their personality in this short, first comic. Enjoy!

(click image for a better view. Easier to read, too!)

<3Billie

Pokemon Meme Part 3 and the Last!

Hey folks! Sorry I'm late again. Had a guest staying over and I didn't want to ignore her for drawing Pokemon. I don't think she would have understood. Anyways, I'm here to post the 3rd and final part of the Pokemon type meme. I had to split these six up because they were so big there was no way they'd fit on one piece of paper! So here they are:

Favorite Poison: Drapion, Favorite Electric: Ampharos, Favorite Water: Jellicent

Favorite Dragon: Flygon, Favorite Ice: Lapras, Favorite Fairy: Togekiss

So what are your favorite types? I challenge you (yes, you! the reader!) to do this meme. Ideally you would find a template and draw them onto the template but I don't like being restricted by small squares. I hope you've enjoyed seeing mine!
I'm tempted to do another, similar, drawing meme I found on tumblr. The first half or so is by type but it would give me the freedom to draw that one Pokemon really well and time to draw backgrounds and a scene and such. Click here to find the December Pokeddex Meme! It doesn't include Fairy types since it's a year old...so maybe draw your favorite normal and fairy type on the first day :)

I won't be posting on Thanksgiving for obvious reasons. That said, the next time I post it'll be the start of my comic series revolving around my SoulSilver team I wrote about awhile ago. (See linked post for more information).

Have a wonderful holiday everyone! I'll be back after my trip to VEGAS! Woohoo!

<3Billie

Pokemon Type Meme Part 2

Favorite Steel: Skarmory, Ghost: Gengar, Ground: Sandslash, Psychic: Meowstic, Dark: Honchkrow, Rock: Tyranitar

Meowstic is not very happy about Sandslash coming up out of the ground and scaring her....
Anyways! Sorry for the delay! It's been a busy week! Here's another six from the Favorite Pokemon Type Meme! I realize that most of my favorites have also been part dark....whoopsy heh heh heh
*Ahem* Honchkrow is my favorite Pokemon to draw, by far. Such a great shape! I'm much better at drawing birds than dogs, ohmygoodness.

Anyways, sorry for the short post! Next week will be Part 3 of the meme to finish this up and then it's time for more from our friends from my SoulSilver dream team! (See this post for explanation).

Billie, out!

Favorite Pokemon by Type Meme!!!

Hey y'all! I've been wanting to do this meme for awhile now. You know, the one where you pick your favorite Pokemon of each type and draw them? Yeah that one. Since there are 18 types now, I decided to take it slow and start with 6 of them. The 6 types I drew for this week are: my favorite fire, grass, flying, normal, fighting, and bug type Pokemon! One from each category! It was hard to choose. Most of my pick are dual types that also happen to be dark. Whoops. Anyways, without further ado, here are my first six picks!

Fire: Houndoom, Grass: Chikorita family, Flying: Noctowl, Normal: Teddiursa, Fighting: Scrafty, and Bug: Vivillon!

So, readers, if you had to pick one Pokemon from each of this week's six types, which Pokemon would you choose? Feel free to comment below! I'll be getting a bunch of stuff ready for my comics that have an actual plot but in the meantime, I thought you'd enjoy this meme! Stay tuned next week for part 2!

<3Billie

Happy Halloween!

I was lucky enough to have my day land right on my favorite holiday! Perhaps I planned that. Maybe not. Either way, I'm excited to bring you a Halloween themed post! Featuring our ghost pal from last week, Blair, but this time she's a Haunter and she' got some work to do! It the most important day of the year for her, of course! Time to scare some people and Pokemon alike! (Comic after the cut!)

Tabletop Spotlight: DC Deckbuilding Game

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's.... another board game review!

Our spotlight shines tonight on a game more recently put out by Cryptozoic Entertainment, the DC Comics Deck-building Game. (Yes, that's the title. No, it isn't very creative) This is a well-polished deck building card game for 2-5 players using the Cerberus engine- we'll get to that, don't worry- set in the DC comics universe. Have I piqued your interest yet?

I have to admit, I was a little taken aback by the New 52 art style, but they've really pulled it off in few ways that even the DC comics themselves haven't been able to do. The same DC heroes and villains we've all come to love over the years are in action, and let me tell you, this game is beautiful. The art on the box and the cards is gorgeous, and overall, it's very sleek. But aesthetics aren't everything; Dominion is the best deck builder out there and the art for that game looks like crap. How's it play?

SoulSilver Dream Team (comic at end!)

I've been drawing Pokemon for as long as I've been into doodling. I didn't have any reoccurring characters until Pokemon SoulSilver (and HeartGold) came out, though. For the first time, my Pokemon each had their own distinct personalities and it became part of my Pokemon playing experience. I started drawing comic strips of my adventures and they're back stories and incorporating they're personalities. I loved it. I even created a tumblr for my male Flaafy (he's obviously an Ampharos, now).
Who are they, you ask?

"Professor" Oak

(click on the image to make it easier to read!!)
This comic was drawn because Michael and I now have an inside joke about Prof. Oak only having an Associates degree. Don't ask, I just had to do it.
But  really, have you ever seen a college in a Pokemon game? Pokemon University?
Sure, there's the Trainer School in Sinnoh and onward but...they talk about the basic crud that every Pokemon trainer knows.

Besides, most of Oak's research is thanks to a 10 year old running around catching Pokemon for him. I'm just messin' with ya, Oak. You know we love you <3

Oh! And as a follow up to my last entry (Don't Make Me Hitmonchan You), I drew Hitmonchan's buddies waiting for him to bring over the drinks. Enjoy!

<3 Billie

Tabletop Spotlight: Sentinels of the Multiverse

Today’s spotlight shines on a game that is up-and-coming amongst board gamers and is one that I must admit I am totally hooked on: Sentinels of the Multiverse. This is a deeply thematic, fully cooperative card game for 2-5 players from Greater Than Games. Debuted in 2011, this game has already warranted three full expansions (with another in the works!) and was one of the top 10 board/card games funded on Kickstarter. The most recent expansion, Infernal Relics, boasts contributions from Richard Launius of Arkham Horror fame. Needless to say, it’s getting big.

What really attracted me to this game at first was the theme. I am an enormous comic book nerd, and I have already had a lot of personal success with other cooperative board games (e.g.Pandemic, Castle Panic, and Forbidden Island… even Shadows over Camelot and Battlestar Galactica if I had to). When I saw this box, the art and theme immediately jumped out at me. The gorgeous aesthetics conceal an incredible easy game mechanic system. It’s accessible to the point of learning how to play in five minutes!

Don't Make Me Hitmonchan You

That was a terrible joke. I'm very sorry.
Hello folks! Hope your week has been great! Mine has been okay. I may or may not have lost my job due to my credit load at school. But that's not important now. Today I'm here to post! Yay!
Lately, I've been running into a particular issue over and over again on the interwebs and in real life. Maybe you've seen it, too.
I'm a nerd. And, brace yourself, I'm a girl.

Holy Heracross in a hand basket! No freaking way, right?

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Isaac's adventures in Photoshop

Good Morrow, Fellows!

I've been teaching myself Photoshop lately, and I'm practicing using it on a couple charecters of mine I've waited forever to use.

Because I've only been using photoshop for a week or so, it has a bit of a Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff feel to it, so bear with me. Find it under the Break!

Toonsem

Greetings, Internet!

I am Toonsem. I never anticipated using that weird nickname for something like this, but I guess I'll stick with it. Like most contributors to this site, I waste much of my time playing video games and browsing pointless content on the Internet. I am capable of being productive, though, particularly when the creative zone of my brain is chugging along merrily and I have a pencil in hand. WCR provides the perfect canvas for me to paint my abnormal conscience. I will be posting comics, short stories and occasional articles pertaining to whatever is on my mind at the moment (I will attempt to make it at least vaguely intriguing to the average reader). Most of my posts in the near future will be in collaboration with my roommate Moonlitumbreon, which will probably be even weirder than our individual projects (see "The Horse Loiterers"). You have been warned.

If all this biography stuff is boring you, relax. I have said enough about myself. Now I will humor you with this comic (I apologize to our viewers whom I do not know personally; I promise to be less inside-jokey from this point onward):

Pokemon Crossing, bitches

I've been playing a lot of two things: Pokemon Black 2 and Animal Crossing: New Leaf. This was bound to happen at some point and I regret nothing (except that the scanner can't recognize color, arrrggh). I originally drew my Ampharos (Agnes), Emboar (Orwell), and Jellicent (Henry) in Animal Crossing form but I decided their basic versions made more sense.
In Pokemon, Agnes is a Quiet nature (but "mischevious") and Orwell is a Modest nature (but "likes to fight.) I have many OCs that I'd like to start putting into comic form but it's hard to decide. Maybe I'll play around with this idea (and ink them instead, since pencil doesn't seem to work very well).

In other news, I found my Crystal Version that I'm doing a nuzlocke challenge on. I'm doing pretty well, I think. I also found a drawing of what I'd like to call "The Days of Innocence", hidden away in my sketchbook.

All of those Pokemon are still alive but I put Meatball in the box. He'd never be a Golem so I didn't see the use in carrying him around. Also, Fennel the Butterfree has been EXTREMELY helpful. If you'd like to see more details about my nuzlocke you can find them here: http://middle-earthbender.tumblr.com/post/62080421198/finding-her-forte-beginning-of-nuzlocke-intro

I'll be trying to post updates as much as possible.

Billie, out!