DeadManRising

Twenty Third Post!

This is the first fully rendered piece of solo Sriracha Man art that I've drawn in nearly two years, which I suppose is ironic when you consider that beforehand, I only drew solo Sriracha art. Although I did figure that it should've been time for me to draw something like this for reference purposes, and to reestablish myself with who and what the hell a Sriracha Man is.

As a character, Sriracha is best summarized as a short, angry man with a strong set of kicks and sense of justice. For one reason or another, he doesn't speak in anything but grunts and screams. It's because of this and several other factors that he isn't viewed the same by any two people in many regards, and often gets into misunderstandings with others due to that. It doesn't help that he stays largely mysterious to others and seems to disappear when not "on the prowl," leaving no method of contact and little to no clue of any kind of second life.

As a concept, Sriracha Man originates from a vaguely funny idea I had back in 2019 or so. It revolved around the idea of the absurdity of superhero concepts and evolved from there. I burned through plenty of (somehow even more) cringe-worthy ideas before settling on an early version of what I have now around three to four years ago, which also came the creation of Milkman. From there it wouldn't really take me until the summer of last year for me to create the rest of the cast and flesh out Sriracha as more of a character, largely due to the dynamics that he now had to share with the others.

I'm fairly happy with what I've got going on now, and especially so at the results of this render (sorry for talking about the guy in it so much; I just feel like I've done a poor job at introducing him before.) I think it's genuinely my favorite drawing of him so far, and I can't wait to further develop his world and character out. Who knows, if I stay dedicated enough to the stupid concept, I might actually consider writing a full story someday!

Lately, I've been binging a lot of new music, and a couple of my favorites that I've come across have been from British pop-rock band Zombina and the Skeletones. It's almost assuredly because I'm a sucker for a lot of pop infused music, in addition to cheesy and macabre ideas, so it's only natural that I fall head over heels over an album that almost entirely consists of songs that fit that exact bill. That being their debut: Taste the Blood of Zombina and the Skeletones. My favorite song off it is by far You Can't Break a Dead Girl's Heart, because it is dripping in that cheese and macabre I mentioned earlier and since it is incredibly easy to get stuck in your head. If you like stupid fun, b-movies, and dead people; give them a shot; it will be worth it.

Twenty Third (½) Post!

I don't even know why I started doing these things. I do them now because it's funny, to keep myself from getting too pretentious with Sriracha Man, the fact that men are natural sluts. But the thing is, neither of those reasons are why are why I started. I was just existing when I had thought about the idea of Sriracha in the outfit and against my better judgement, I drew it as a variant to TWG a couple of months later. And for some reason, they're actually achieving a level of success; I have several posts where the variant is more popular than the original. Which is nice as it means others are also finding the comedy in my inappropriate proportions, and because others are enjoying my particular brand of... whatever this is. That, or people are viewing it as something worthy of ridicule and showing it to their friends to laugh and spit upon. Either way, I'm still happy.

I've got a playlist of all my favorite songs I've listened to recently, and it's no surprise to hear that I've got You Can't Break a Dead Girl's Heart there. But I've also got it followed up with Meteorite, in addition to Disappear and Flood by Nox Novacula; you know, those punks (in a pejorative sense) that I recommended back in February? There's just something about that string of four songs that keep me coming back for more. There's just no explaining it for me, other than just recommending that you listen to it for yourself. If you come back and tell me you didn't like them, then I'm just gonna' assume that you must be fucking stupid or something.

Twenty-Second Post!

Is it sad this took me nearly four months to finish? Probably, but to be fair, I am a pretty sad motherfucker in general.

Anyway, I was watching a lot of Futurama when I decided to make my original sketch, at a Christmas party I attended, where I wasn't really talking to anyone or doing anything. For some reason, I had always drawn characters in this bizarre third style of mine, which I've never used for anything else, and I suppose I didn't really plan on changing that. The sketch itself took me about a week to finish before I accidentally forgot I had it in the hectic mess that was my start to 2026. But despite that, I finally found the time to remember its existence and get around to digitizing it over the last month or so (yes, I know I work slow.)

And now it's done. I don't have too much to say about it; I'm fairly underwhelmed by the final result, but it wasn't really like I put too much effort into this in the first place. I don't know, maybe throwing in another pointless reference might have helped. I hope you enjoyed this, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

BareNaked Ladies are a group I'd tell more people I'm a decent fan of, if it didn't make me sound like such a pervert, or just reenforce the stereotype of me just liking that one freak with the accordion. In fact, it was that freak's parody of them that got me to check out the rest of their catalogue.

As it turns out, they're a Canadian alt-pop band that has never once had a lady as a part of their entourage. Biggest in the 90's for their hit One Week and several others from the Stunt album, my mishappen ears like the crap from their second album most, at least from the two songs I've heard from it. I think it's just the acoustics and their ability to be a little more emotionally vulnerable. Although, the song I think encapsulates this the most is from their Everything to Everyone album: War on Drugs. I think the lyrics have a nice mix of blunt and metaphoric meanings.

(i.e. "Won't it be dull when we rid ourselves of all these demons haunting us, to keep us company"/"In the dream I refuse to have, she falls asleep in a lukewarm bath, we're left to deal with the aftermath, again")

I also think that Steven Page gives a really impassioned delivery, which is only amplified by the gentle and slowly paced instrumental. If more contemporary pop isn't really for you, or you're a big fan of acoustics, I'd definitely recommend them.

Twenty-First Post!

I'm going to honest, I didn't put all too much effort into making this. I just drew it during during a school assembly I didn't attend, and even then, I was watching Vampire Dog with a nostalgia fueled friend.

The idea for this just came up since I drew a pair of cards last year and thought it might be fun to make another one. Although I refrained from drawing myself because in the last year, I've introduced Sriracha Man and Milkman, who are romantic enough for something like this. I've drawn them here in a more direct BDSM scenario than I would normally depict them in, since I thought it would just be kind of fun. Although the end product is just a little too suggestive for my tastes. I hope you enjoyed this, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

While I've listened to a lot of Duran Duran, I've noticed that I haven't really given too much of their synthpop contemporaries a fair shot, so I decided to listen to the Into the Gap album by English pop trio Thompson Twins. It was put on my radar since the songs Hold Me Now and Doctor! Doctor! were briefly parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic, preformed somewhere on his Stupid Tour.

I ended up enjoying a good majority of it, especially it's first half. It all has a peculiar vibe that feels just slightly darker and more mechanical than most pop songs of the era, especially in songs like No Peace for the Wicked and Day After Day. And songs like Sister of Mercy and The Gap had lyrics that I found to be really interesting since they cover topics I've been finding myself getting more and more into. And it's the latter of those two that I would like to recommend to you, since it also features a really catchy chorus and a middle-eastern like backing track, which come together to make something that is absolutely fantastic.

Twentieth Post!

I feel like one good look at the fact that this design is actually really good, or at least not total dogshit, should be enough to tell you that this isn't a creation of mine. This is Voltara-01, an original character of one @Metalgoogi (here's his Instagram and Newgrounds pages;) she is an alien and android hybrid with the ability to use voltage energy and go into a "Statix" form to beat her opponents. I think that she, alongside the rest of Metalgoogi's work is really fascinating. I ended up drawing this as a part of a "DTIYS" he's set up for reaching 300 followers on his Instagram account, although I myself only follow him on Newgrounds.

As is normal with my work, I started with a physical drawing inside my sketchbook. I usually try to draw a more "mannish" or muscular base when drawing humanoids, but I decided to go with a slimmer figure to better fit the original's style (I know the point of this is to avoid doing that, but just cut me some slack here.) I also found folds in clothes and more complex hair styles to be a pretty big pain, but after working on a semi-major portrait around a month or so ago, it was honestly kind of fun to think about the different ways I could've gone about the sleeve folds this time around. Something I tried to improve on in comparison to my other work is the proportioning of hands and legs, since I have a pretty bad habit of undersize-ing the former and oversizing the latter, but after a couple of attempts and side-by-side comparisons with my other junk, I think I made something satisfactory. And one last thing about my paper sketch is that instead of taking a picture of it myself and modifying it in Photoshop, I elected to get a scan of it and using that as my base for digitization.

Moving on to my digitization, I tried improving on my method from my last digital drawing in this style, mostly by finding more practical and time efficient ways to execute everything. It's kind of depressing how may things I realized I've been doing wrong or could've been doing better this whole time, but I suppose we have the phrase "live and learn" for a reason. From there, I tried to put some more effort into highlighting than I usually would since the original illustration I'm working with has multiple sources of light; both the off-screen source as well as the sparks generating over Volity's head. I also suppose I did something somewhat interesting for the background, as I essentially made a mesh of the "scribble" and "sketchbook" styles featured across both my styles.

Overall, I do think that I was able to do an at least halfway decent job of translating Volty into my subpar style. It was also a pretty good exercise in drawing something with both more complex features, such as the hair, and simple ones, like the outfit, than I'm used to. Although if I could change one thing, I might go back and give her more defined muscles or maybe draw her in my secondary style, since that closer resembles Metalgoogi's own style. Oh well. I hope you enjoyed this, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

A band I'm finding myself really liking recently is American deathrock band Nox Novacula. I especially really like their Feed the Fire album, since it takes heavy inspiration from 80's new-wave material, and because some of the lyrics really appeal to me in one way or another. But if I had to pick a singular song to recommend, I'd probably make that Victim from the Ascension album, since both ways of looking at it, from the eyes of the donor and recipient of the lyrics do kind of reflect some of my own personal mindsets. Although the latter could because I do a lot of self-loathing; I just really hate myself.

Nineteenth Post!

"Happy New Year!" I say as we nearly enter February. Yeah, I'm sorry about that, I was busy dealing with a critical technical difficulty and other responsibilities, and by the time that was over with, my classes had started back up and threw everything out of whack. Needless to say that this month was very draining for me, and I think that reflects in the fact that one image alone took me two weeks to post anywhere. But in classic DeadManRising fashion, we're starting things off with a pathetic whimper.

The character I've semi-lovingly introduced here is the gun-touting mercenary known as "Saltine-Cracker-Man." Essentially, he was hired by a private party to aide in a quest of putting an end of both Sriracha Man and Milkman, due to their large presences and perceived affiliation. After a while, said party puts an end to the bounties, but Saltine still continues forward with his mission due to Sriracha still impeding on his normal bounties, and their fights being a nice change of pace, at least for the former.

In terms of real-world origin, the name "Saltine-Cracker-Man" originates from a joke I made about Satan that I can no longer recall. I decided to reuse the name for Sriracha Man since it fit the naming scheme I use, but couldn't decide which of three characters I had that I wanted to give it to, but after coming up with a better name for the first and scrapping the second, I arbitrarily gave it to the cowboy. The concept of which originating from two ideas I had for that first aforementioned character before going in a different direction with him, which was to have both a "sharpshooter-esque" character and also one that didn't have a major emotional stake in the mess of a story concept I have.

And I suppose that's what I wanted to introduce to you now. I just need to draw out one last character before having giving you my current entire cast of this little horrid side-project I have. I'll try to keep posts more consistent for the foreseeable future, but can't really promise anything due to how cluttered my classes are making my schedule. I will say this though, I will try to have at least one thing done and posted on all by socials within the first week of February. Also that I've posted a Sriracha Man related video on my YouTube page that has a mildly interesting history behind it, so check it out if you have the time. Aside from that, I hope you enjoyed this, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

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I'm assuming that you've at least heard of the works of American new-wave entourage The Knights of the Mystic Oingo Boingo, or simply Oingo Boingo, or simply-er Boingo. Weird Science is pretty much played every Halloween season, and Little Girls is depressingly relevant in the day and age of the e-celebrity. I myself have only recently first listened to Dead Man's Party, Dark at the End of the Tunnel, and a couple of songs from other albums, but must say that I love what I've heard. The horns and xylophone make for a match made in heaven, and when combined with the synths and Danny Elfman's vocals put me in a state of bliss. My favorite song so far has been Fool's Paradise off of Dead Man's Party, even if it's entirely because of the guitar, bassline, and horns (yes, I know I have terrible taste.)

Nineteenth (½) Post!

For this specific image variant, I decided I was tired having inconsistent line art wherever I needed to make a change for the outfits sake, so I tried my best to replicate my original line art when erasing for modification. Needless to say that I regretted it pretty quickly since it was a really tiring and grueling process to go through, especially when I needed to make modifications as big as the ones needed for the jester outfit seen on Saltine. But hey, I actually think this came out pretty good, especially since I actually tried to think about what I could do with his outfit. Usually these come to me pretty naturally, usually since I like to use them to exaggerate something about the character, either through irony or hyperfixating on something about them. But the only thing that came to mind here was something that was a little derivative of another variant outfit I have planned, thus having to think a little deeper. And for that, I'm somewhat proud of myself, since I embarrassingly don't do a whole lot of that in terms of my own creations.

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Anyways, how about Oingo Boingo? Did ya' like em'? You know, the Boi-Ngo and Boingo guys? I'm not gonna' stop buggin' you about them. I lied about liking that freak-ass accordion guy in my bio, it's those mystic knights that you'll ACTUALLY find in my dreams. I swear, listen to their stuff now or I'll find you and MAKE you listen to them. I Heard Somebody Cry a couple minutes ago, and that somebody is me, since you won't listen to Oingo Boingo. Please, please, please, please, please.

Eighteenth Post!

Funny thing about this drawing, I made it near the beginning of the school semester. It's one of the first things I drew after getting back to my classes back in August. It's just taken me so egregiously long to digitize and post since I don't have too much free time to be working on anything asides from schoolwork and the occasional paper sketch during classes. But now I've got a little under a month of a winter break to look forward to and figured I should get around to finishing this, and a couple of other things I had laying around.

Anyways, I suppose this is kind of like the debut of the yellow guy on the right. Her name is Chalupa Man, and she is a play on the stereotype of attitude filled, slang throwing, rule breaking teens from the 80's-00's. I just thought that a character like that would be funny when put into a world of despots and moral questionability, which kind of shows through the fact that she doesn't really have a backstory, or too much of a connection to anyone besides Sriracha. I guess she's also one of those rival-type characters who's essentially their opponent's opposite; he kicks, so she punches, he's silent, so she throws around insults and quips, etc.

Can you tell I don't really have a direction I'm going in with this whole Sriracha Man thing? It's mostly just my little playground for experimenting with more "serious" ideas and themes, the kind that one would rather put on a resume or website, instead of the goofier and sillier things I usually make and explore. That's not to say I don't do anything stupid with this world and cast of characters or take this 100% seriously, one of the main reasons I do the variant versions is to stop myself from getting carried away and becoming too pretentious. At the end of the day, I'm just some jackass that still has a lot to learn about the world and life in general.

Anyway, sorry for rambling, I just wanted to vent out some of my more PG thoughts regarding why I decided to make the stupid superhero parody my main ongoing art project. I hope you enjoy this, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

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Semi-recently, I've been listening to a lot of Canadian folk-punk group The Dreadnoughts. I personally discovered them through their critique of "Weird Al" Yankovic's series of Polka Medleys. I checked out their Polka's Not Dead album and fell in love right away, and have been slowly checking out the rest of their catalogue since then. The only other full album of theirs I've checked out is their debut, for a little December music challenge I set up for myself. But if I to recommend just a single song of theirs for you to listen to, I'd make that The I'm Gonna Fight Jim's Girlfriend Polka off the album Polka Pit. It encapsulates a lot of the band's energy and some of the kinds of music they like to allude to, when speaking on a more surface level.

Sources: Polka Might Actually Die [Roll & Go: Dreadnoughts Blog] | Accordion Noir - "Weird Al" Interview [Roll & Go: Dreadnoughts Blog] | List of "Weird Al" Yankovic polka medleys [Wikipedia]

Eighteenth (½) Post!

I had the option to make both the skirt and shirt on Chalupa shorter, since that is more in line with the "Japanese Schoolgirl" fetish, at least it would have better matched most of my reference images, but I ended up going with the longer version you see now because it just looked a lot better. Aside from that, it was just the same tedious process I use to modify all my Sriracha Man images to make these variants, but it was all worth it in the end, since this actually came out pretty well. I hope you enjoy this, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

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Anyways, listen to any Dreadnoughts yet? If so I question your taste in music, and that's probably a bad omen coming from the asshat who's favorite musician is the My Bologna guy. Again, The I'm Gonna Fight Jim's Girlfriend Polka, please, I'm begging you. If I had to make the choice between you, yes you in particular, following my account and supporting all my future endeavors, or you checking out the Polka Pit people, well good bye and have a great life; they are that good.

Seventeenth Post!

I know a year of consistent drawing most definitely isn't too much of a stretch of time for most people who'll come across this post, but it is to me. I just doodled a little something in a history class with the expectation that I'd learn a little about posing and anatomy and just move on, after all, my main passion and goal is filmmaking. I never expected to bring drawing back as a hobby of mine after I just stopped doing it a couple of years back, let alone have it expand to a series of 19 posts and 3 subposts (all of which have netted me a little over 10k+ views across all three of my platforms.) I also never really thought I'd meet as many people as I have because of it, or that it'd end up helping me out in a couple of tight spots. But my favorite thing of all is that I've finally got my very own lame claims to fame: mildly notable film and television producer John Cohen liking my original Darkstalkers post, and a decently large American Dad! fan account reposting my Roger art! God, I love Weird Al.

And speaking of non-art related things, I've also started to improve my general circumstances in all aspects of my life over the year. I expanded my music taste by getting into bands like Duran Duran and Siouxie & the Banshees, movie taste by dabbling just a bit with horror, gaming taste by getting into various fighters, and so much more. The extra experimentation with what I watch, listen, and play has really gone a long way in bringing me more joy in my downtime. But what I'd say I improved the most would be my social standing, as people used to just know me as merely "that dipshit who really likes Weird Al." But after making some serious strides in making friends with those around me and strengthening my already existing relationships, I am now known by the much less demeaning "that jackass with the terrible sense of humor, who rambles on about everything."

All jokes aside, I'm really grateful to have posted that original Phoenix Wright drawing a year ago, since it marked the first of a lot of pretty big steps in my desire for new kinds of experiences. As a celebration of sorts, I decided to redraw the whole thing, using the same reference for the pose. I think my improvement is pretty visible and more accurately represents the goal I had in mind back in that history class. Hopefully I'll be able to keep this groove going into the following year, and make even more improvements! I hope you enjoy it, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

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Anyway, have any of you nerds heard about Japanese Pop-Punk trio Shonen Knife? Well I didn't until several months ago either, but after several binges of their catalogue and an absolutely amazing concert experience, I can confidently say that they're one of my favorites. Although something tells me that there might be a weirdly familiar reason as why I like them that so much...

S.P.A.M [Genki Shock!]- Shonen Knife

Spam [UHF] - "Weird Al" Yankovic

Beat On The Brat [Osaka Ramones] - Shonen Knife

Beat On The Brat [Covered In Punk]- "Weird Al" Yankovic

Beat on the Brat [Weird: The Al Yankovic Story] - "Weird Al" Yankovic

Eat It [Covered In Punk]- Shonen Knife

Eat It [In 3-D]- "Weird Al" Yankovic

just a hunch though... Anyway, I'd like to recommend Perfect Freedom off of the Free Time album. It's been stuck in my head since I first heard it, and deservingly so, it is great!

Sixteenth (½) Post!

Oh wow. It's those guys from the slasher thing I made a couple months ago, but now you can actually see their faces, clothes and such, I don't know. I've been messing around with the tone that I've been wanting to take with these two for a while now, and this is one one of the few things I've actually drawn out. This is a bit too squeaky clean for my tastes, plus I don't think the whole sketchbook background thing works very well with this style. Other than that, it's an ok sketch of the pair.

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For music, again, I don't know. Here's a basic-ish song for a basic sketch: Playboi Carti; Other Shit off of Playboi Carti. A friend recommended his and Ken Carson's stuff to me at a party a couple months ago. And I liked both.

Sixteenth Post!

No clue why, but for some reason, Hsien-Ko/Lei-Lei is my favorite Darkstalkers/Vampire character. Although, I've never really found a good reason to draw her over other things I like or have made.

But around two weeks back, I thought I could use her as an opportunity to work perspective; the idea being to draw her from a low-angle looking downwards, towards the audience's POV. I think I did an ok job with proportioning most things while adjusting to the angle, with the exception of the head, which I think is a little too big. It really throws the whole thing off for me and makes it look like she's got a really small chest and stubby arms.

But I do still think I was able to make something of worth while digitizing it. I decided to mess around with my line art by just making the general outline black and the innards colored, which I think came out pretty nice. That was in addition to building upon the rendering technique I first used on my Elvira drawing--which was given to me by a friend--trying out different brushes and adding a splash of color, that being blue. Overall, while I think my sloppy proportions killed the goal of a low-angle shot, it still came out pretty good.

I hope you enjoyed this, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

And for my music recommendation for today, I want to push you in the direction of the Pop Trash album from my favorite band: Duran Duran. More specifically, the last track from the original listing of the album--Last Day On Earth--a perfect example of how underrated the band's 90's-00's era was. The song was originally written for the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, but ended up getting shafted in favor of one by Sheryl Crow. But after a couple of rewrites, it was moved over to the Pop Trash album and released as a Japanese only CD single. Either way, while not nearly the band's best song, musically and lyrically speaking, it's still a fantastic homage to a lot of their best qualities.

Fifteenth Post!

Since I've begun drawing more consistently, I've been filling in my old sketchbook at a much faster rate, and since I've had the thing since around 2021 or 22', you can see my slow, but steady evolution from plain horrid to merely really bad. Anyhow, I've just hit the last page in my book and wanted to make something to celebrate the occasion, and I soon got the idea to have an old character interact with a new one. So I went back to previous pages in my notebook and old hard drives of mine to dissect how I drew and wrote, and landed on an interaction between my "modern" Sriracha Man character and an older iteration of Milkman, who I referred to as "The Milk Man" at the time. It's honestly crazy to think about just how much my writing and I have changed over these last few years, it used to be filled with swears and pop-culture references and generally came off as overly moody and really pretentious; needless I'm glad I'm over all that and tend to have more fun nowadays. But I did want to write a little something to poke fun at my everlasting inability to write dialog, so I hid my pride, and here's the final result:

-"Fuckity-Fuck-Fuck!"-

The Milk Man: "You stupid little shit! Where are your fucking quips now 'hero?!' Or has my genius plan stunned you into silence and obedience?"

Sriracha Man: "...?!"

The Milk Man: *Scoffs* "I expected nothing less from a comic book wannabe like you, now let me go and goddamn surrender before I slit your fucking throat!"

Sriracha Man: "...?" *Kicks in gut and lets go*

The Milk Man: *Collapses and writhes in pain* FUCK! Y-YO-YOU-YOU'LL REGRET THIS! I'll kill your cunt ass and piss on your corpse! Nobody gets one over on the motherfucking Milk Man!"

Sriracha Man: "..." *Walks away*

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As you can see, I have and still deeply care about my quality of writing, in addition to how it makes my characters and myself look in the long run. Aside from this, I do still have a couple of projects I want to digitize or recreate in the future, so this isn't the last of this sketchbook's content, at least not for you. Overall, I had a fun time with the thing and hope to only get better with a second one I recently bought, in addition to this piece in particular. I especially had more fun than expected when looking through my older works for my pseudo-pastiche, who knows, I might create an actual pastiche of someone else's stuff in the future. I hope you enjoyed this, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

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Moving on to my music recommendation, I want to suggest you give a listen to Dazzle off of the Siouxie and the Banshees album Hyæna. I don't know why, but I've been listening to the Banshees a lot while drawing recently, maybe it's because I personally found out about them while doing a little research for something else I was drawing, or just because I find their musical and lyrical style interesting. Either way, it's pretty good and I recommend you check it out!

Fourteenth Post!

Hello darlings, it's me, the flat asshole whose social media you've had the misfortune of stumbling upon; back from the dead with yet another fan art post.

Now you may not know this, but I absolutely adore Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, everything about her flamboyant presentation that allows her actress--Cassandra Peterson--to just be herself, with a touch of self awareness to just how dumb the whole thing can come off at times just kind of speaks to me, and I don't really know why. I first stumbled upon her after finding out that the 1988 film and its 2001 prequel were free on YouTube a couple of months ago, so I added them to my ever growing backlog of movies and watched them not too long after, falling down a rabbit hole that's too long to talk about in it's entirety for now, I'll just have to tell you all about it at a later date.

But thanks to Halloween coming around again and my newfound fascination with her, I decided to whip up this little piece based mostly on her 13 Nights of Elvira iteration since it's my personal favorite of what I've seen of the more traditional Movie Macabre content. This took me about three weeks, two of which were spent on the rough sketch, and these past few days were focused on recreating the whole thing in Photoshop, and rendering it from there. I'm really happy with how this came out, in fact it may be my favorite thing I've made since I've decided to take my drawing skills a little more seriously a little under a year ago. I hope you enjoy it, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome! Oh, and keeping in tone with the beginning of this post, unpleasant dreams...

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Now for my music recommendation, I know it's a bit repetitive since last post's was from the same person, but I'm one again suggesting a song by one "Weird Al" Yankovic. That being Nature Trail to Hell from the In 3D album since just the name alone sounds like something that would be featured on Movie Macabre if it were a real film. Also I'm pretty sure the two know each other, at least someone playing Elvira appeared in in Weird Al's biopic when that came out, so the repetition of musician kind of fits here.

Source: IDK, some Instagram post

Thirteenth Post!

Hey, it's been quite a while since I've posted to any of my socials; the new school year has just been pretty busy for me, and I've been using more and more of my free time to meet new people and grow closer with those I already know (both in person and online, so feel free to DM me if you please.)

Anyway, this illustration is something I've been working on for a couple of months, although I don't think it shows. It's just of my Sriracha Man character and another one I call "Machine-Gun-Man" since I find the radical departure from food and drink names funny. This go around, I tried to add a little bit of highlighting in addition to my shadows since it's been quite a while since I've done that, but I'm kinda on the fence in terms of how good it came out, but I'm still pretty happy with how the overall final product came out.

Other than that, I'm happy to say that my workload has been cleared out a fair bit since I started getting a better grip on time management, so hopefully I'll get to post a little more consistently from here on out! I hope you enjoy it, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

--Outside of that, I got got a fair bit into a couple bands over the summer and want to just share a little bit of that now that I'm trying to be a little more active on my socials again!

For now, I want to start with my favorite musician, the comedic parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic and the song Trigger Happy from the Off the Deep End Album, the name of which I not-so-coincidently reused for this illustration. It's a style parody the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean about a "gun nut" with a fairly obvious pro-gun control sentiment, but it's got enough of it's own jokes and charm to be enjoyable for people who are gun nuts themselves!--

Sources: Permanent Record – Al In The Box, Trigger Happy - Weird Al Wiki

Variant Half Post!

This was honestly kind of half-assed, but I do think that I was still able to keep the spirits of both Sriracha and Machine-Gun alive in the transition to their showgirl outfits. I am especially happy that I was able to flip the color scheme of Machine-Gun from primarily blacks to primarily whites here, since a good majority of her standard outfit color design is supposed to be the reverse of Milkman's with some hints of Sriracha, so it only makes sense to do the same with their respective showgirl outfits. But I also did a little more research into those sort of Playboy Rabbit outfits and made a couple of modifications to Sriracha's outfit for accuracies sake.

--Anyways, have you checked out Trigger Happy yet? It's a really good song, in fact the whole Off the Deep End album is great, especially the Nirvana and Milli Vanilli parodies, I don't even like the original Milli Vanilli songs but Weird Al just has that magic that makes every song he redoes better in one way or another, it's great.--

Twelfth Post!

This is most likely going to be my last post, at least the last one showcasing digital art, for the foreseeable future. I start classes in less than a day and seeing how my last school year went, it'll probably be another busy year for me. I had a ton of fun and enjoyed seeing my work (mostly my little "Wikipedia and Sleep Deprivation" adventure) gain any sort of attention--mostly because nobody in real life will pay any to me. So whether you'll just see this and nothing else, or check out the rest of my work, thanks a bunch.

On a brighter note, my DeviantArt page just turned a year old! I only started it with the expectation that I'd like a couple posts and ditch it when I started school again, but I came back a during my winter break and posted some art I had made in November. I went under the name "AceAttorneySomething" at the time since I hadn't thought of "DeadManRising" yet (I was just able change it during a Core+ sale.) Anyway, to celebrate my anniversary, I've drawn a little follow-up of sorts to my most popular post: two poorly photographed sketchbook pages with equally poor sketches of a fictional Chinese woman that I called "That Blue Guy, From Street Fighter" because I was too uncreative to think of anything else. I've even included a variant color scheme with all her blue and white elements turned pink (ya know, like my Tumblr and YouTube page profile pictures.) It's not my best work, but I had fun and as somebody who's studying to be a filmmaker rather than any sort of illustrator, I think that's all that matters. Here's to another half-year of art of gradually improving quality!

I hope you enjoy it, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

Eleventh Post!

As you can tell from the dates, I sketched and finished this last week, but just didn't feel like posting until this week. Anyway, I just wanted to make a joke with some stupid OCs of mine and ended up having to design a "slasher-movie-type" villain, and tried to think about how everyone here would inhabit a three-dimensional space. It was all somewhat fun and enjoyable. I originally wanted to play around with darker, more purple colored lighting, but I kind of forgot about that, which means I'll most likely do that with something later down the line.

Tenth Post!

I realized that I haven't posted anything I've on paper in around two months or so, in fact, my last three public illustrations were all made entirely in Photoshop. I decided that it might be fun to try again, and landed on drawing my two ambiguously gendered children: Sriracha Man and Milkman.

It was somewhat refreshing to draw on paper again since I felt like I had more control of what I was doing, and it wasn't very tedious to fix any mistakes I made along the way. It also helps that I drew in my much simpler, secondary style, which mostly consists of straight and curved lines--the only shapes I actually drew long the way were the fingers, hair, and each character's respective "logos." I started by drawing some stick figures in the poses I wanted in the corner and used that to create my bases. From there, I filled in Milk's legs and Sriracha's wrists. And that's pretty much everything notable about my process here, despite being a different style and initially on a different medium, the rest of the process was pretty much the same as what I did with the rest of my digital illustrations. (I'm realizing just now how redundant I must've sounded in my last two posts).

I'm pretty happy with how my characters came out here, I honestly can't say I have any major problems with it at the moment. And while I would like to sit here and write about the rest of my process, I think it would be a little too similar to my previous three posts, so I'd recommend that you read those to get a better idea of how I work.

I hope you enjoy it, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

Tenth (and a half) Tumblr Post!

If the stupid looking outfits haven't made it obvious, this is a variant of my previous post that I decided to make just for fun, but mostly because it seemed pretty funny at the time, just slapping on two random outfits on my characters, although it became quite tedious after a while.

While starting, I knew I wanted to put Sriracha and Milk in Rabbit and French Maid outfits, because I knew that they came with very kinky connotations, which are pretty funny to me. I began by creating a separate PSD file while recreating my original line art digitally, and creating a rough sketch of what I wanted the product to look like based on a series of references. It soon became clear to me that I would need to do a lot of erasing if I wanted something that looked even half decent, so I got to it. The rest of my notable process consisted of making small edits to the characters that accommodated their new outfits, cleaning up my sketch and fixing any errors I came across, since as it turns out, I am not very focused at the 10pm after a short and terrible night's sleep. But I managed, and even went back to add more details to Milk's dress and change up Sriracha's color palate. Past that, everything I followed a similar formula to the rest of my digital works (you can read about my process in some of my previous posts), but I did get to save a ton of time and headaches by copy-and-pasting some elements.

I have some complaints about this, but most of them stem from the fact that I didn't really plan to make variant art in the first place, it was just an idea I had and decided to do because it was kind of funny. I guess has it's charm and I really did have fun creating the outfits, but if I ever decide to draw these two in like this again, I'll try to take that into consideration earlier on.

I hope you enjoy it, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!

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Images Used as References:

Changing seasons | Bunny Ghost Girl tg tf by SquirmsDWorms on DeviantArt

IT'S EASTER Y'ALL by Sheravyn on DeviantArt

Maid TG TF by TheDamnedEd on DeviantArt

Involuntary Maids | 1 by CreepyNinja139 on DeviantArt

Ninth Tumblr Post!

Fun fact about me, I friggin' LOVE Bob's Burgers, I was drawn to it a couple years ago after noticing that an animation teacher I had at the time occasionally played episodes on it while the class worked, and had invited a handful of students (including me) to an early screening of the movie. I binged the first couple seasons in preparation for the event and fell in love with the characters and world. I recently decided to draw Bob himself in an outfit worn in the end credits sequence of the episode The Fresh Princ-ipal, where he's wearing another character, Jimmy Pesto's underwear as a form of distraction from his Yips. Like a majority of credits sequences in the show, it was accompanied with an original song (Pesto in My Pants) and featured an original animation of Bob shaking his hips and butt to the rhythm while cooking a burger. I say all this because I don't really have a reason for wanting to draw this.

My rough sketch process was slightly different than my other two fully digital projects, since this time I was drawing a unique pose that was only inspired by the end credits sequence. I took several screenshots from The Fresh Princ-ipal and decided what elements from each I wanted to take, and landed on Bob tapping his foot and outstretching both arms, one of which is catching his underwear, while mid sway. I then attempted to break down each element into basic shapes, which was surprisingly difficult to do because of the proportioning and structuring differences in the show's and my art style. Since I knew that I would be drawing Bob with his torso leaning forward and butt exaggerated, I drew a curved line along his back. For what would eventually become his feet, I drew two rectangular boxes and added a shadow beneath one to remind myself later on which would be the tapping foot.

By this point I was quickly losing motivation to go on with this drawing, but I'm trying harder to finish what I start nowadays, so I essentially forced myself to begin and finish the rest. I previously wasn't able to grab any good shots of Bob's head or nose, I resorted to grabbing more references from another episode (What a (April) Fool Believes), although I soon decided to leave out his nose because of the angle I drew him at. I used myself for a more realistic torso and butt reference, since I'm also on the overweight side of things, which made everything so much easier since I didn't have to spend too much time figuring out how this kind of pose would look in my style. I then shortened the right arm after noticing that it looked really off-putting, but failed to do so equally, causing it to look arguably worse--although I didn't really notice at the time. I then scanned each of my reference images for all the places I could find body hair, and grabbed a screen shot from The Equestranauts for a better look at Bob's tattoo, before swiftly recreating them. Since he isn't really wearing much in the first place, drawing the clothing wasn't too hard or tedious, especially because they both just consist of lines. I did make sure to draw his underwear and apron tie in yellow to differentiate them from the rest of the line art later on.

My final art process, now that I've grown accustomed to my personal digital art process was pretty simple. The only major modification I made was halving my brush size for the apron tie and body hair, which I also wanted to do for facial features, but didn't after forgetting to do so. I also added wrinkles to the apron and a small chunk on the left after noticing just how strange it looked without them. Soon after rendering, I was exhausted and satisfied-adjacent enough to call it quits. The background was created in the same style of another character portrait of mine, but ended up taking a whole lot longer to create since I wasn't really paying attention and had to go back to re do it several times.

Despite my state of near constant boredom while drawing him, I think that Bob came out pretty decently here. Don't get me wrong, I still have a lot of problems with my final product, and it is bay far the worst illustration I've made in a while. But for a little doodle I quickly lost passion, it's not half bad. I hope that despite this little blunder of mine, I can still keep improving.

I hope you enjoy it, and any and all constructive criticism is welcome!