Derpy Wulf

This year at AX I got commissions for my two characters: Melon and Tuna. They are based off my two friends, and I thought I’d give them a nice gift from AX. My art style is pretty chibi and derpy, so when I showed my friends the commissions the response I got was: “Whoa, why am I so older sisterly looking?”

Thanks to @diitard for the very mature looking Melon and Tuna, even though in my mind they are still pretty loli.

Also thanks to @sienadoesart and @cargodin table. I forgot which artist it was, so hopefully one of them drops by and sets the record straight on who drew or wants to steal the credit for the piggy back duo.

Starting the Game

I thought that with the other team getting just a single word, this team would get an idiom: “Eat my Words.” What better way to describe “words” without words!

Eat my Shorts Words Cloud

@akanekun was really excited to get started on this. How else to describe words in comic form than through word bubbles. But it seemed like the eating part got lost. 

@mistisketch took up the challenge of only using FAnime mascots for her followup picture.

Curse of the Monkey’s Paw

Apparently people are really good at drawing monkeys at FAnime! This was getting bad. I was going to get a whole sequence of monkeys at the end of FAnime, because people are fans of the Monkey King but not Son Goku!

@beefbulgogi and puppetbomb drew some very nice Monkey Kings. A little too nice...

@ashwara ... let’s say he’s saved me from a lifetime of monkey art.

Open the Door, like a Dinosaur

You can’t be anime cool unless you do some flashy entrance, usually involving door slamming and kicking. @cirquecarte and @mayshallwin both chose the door slamming rather than a pole vaulting entrance!

@kiwiburrr was able to recognize @mayshallwin’s derpy eye art when she was up for guessing.

Bigger is Better

The door slamming at this point was lost, and the emphasis started to be placed around the obviously phallic symbol that Sailor Moon carries around. Well upstaging wasn’t that sexual of a guess, but I’m glad that medical.panties was able to put it back on track.

I have this feeling that @0-banana-0 is on Team Sasuke...

Starting the Game

In all games, someone needs to start it, and I was assigned the duty of choosing a word to start this game. Unfortunately, all the artists had been vetted by the fine staff of FAnime, and anything too literal would be too easy of a drawing prompt. For this team, I decided to just start with an abstract word: “vision.”

Eye see your Arousal

I have to give credit to lauramw88 on being a sport and taking on this word. At first she was a bit hesitant when she saw this word, but she ended up taking on this daunting task. It’s never easy going first!

The sparkly in the eyes seemed to be her main focus, but I think the hearts threw the guesser off and they thought it was euphoria. Whoops!

 Jumping with Consistency

I kind of panicked here when the guesses started getting very easy to literally draw. When you have artists who are pro at drawing kawaii, happy things, this was something that they could draw in their sleep.

@kidoairaku drew a really cute FAnime mascot, and @bunnychii followed up with another cute jump. At this point I wasn’t sure if this was going to be a failed experiment where all I had to show for was a series of jumping cute things, until I happened upon yumeya’s booth. In the corner of her booth she was offering $1 blind(eyes closed) commissions. I had to double check with her whether she was being serious with it, and that is how her masterpiece came about.

Jumping with Yandere Thoughts

It seemed the “joy” part was lost in this picture and was replaced with psychotic/yandere.

As I was explaining to @whitetreefox the rules to this game, her friend all of a sudden asked me if this was the “dickbutt game?!” Apparently there’s a group of people at the convention who asks people to draw dickbutts for them!

@whitetreefox had the honor of drawing the next prompt. She admitted that she had to google what a senpai was.

Your Nyan is Shit! Shiiiiit!

This probably proves that dogs are the king of all pets. We see what we want to see, and it’s definitely not a cat. I figured @sumiartblog would be a fun contrast to how morbid of a direction the game was getting. She did not disappoint!

So many Words!

It seemed all was good and we were getting back onto the PG track, except @kiwiburrr​ awesomely sent it back onto its natural course. Hey! Why are you cheating and writing so many words in a game of Pictionary!

Self Censorship

Proof that we don’t need a Fahrenheit 451 event for the government to censor us. I’m being denied boobies and dicks! Thanks @kiwiburrr, akahochan and @duriandoodles​ for denying freedom and America!

Yup... it’s gone...

Hypothetically, if the Big One hit the Bay Area, and I was trapped in the dark with a bunch of FAnime arists, I’d probably be fucked. I’ve been thinking a lot about this, and I’m pretty sure this is how it would play out:

Me: It’s really dark in here guys. I need vision. Artist: Oh right. Hey guys, this guy needs to be deflowered.

Yes, after many deep thought experiments on FAnime and life, my FAnime scenario ends up me getting fucked in both a literal and metaphorical sense.

But I should back up a bit. The logical leap here is a bit too abrupt and needs some explaining and context...

Every year I’ve been making it a point to get commissions and browse the Artist Alley whenever FAnime rolls around. I really enjoy the creative little crafts that people make, and having some conversations with the artists to get to know them.

I really enjoy out-of-the-box thinking as well as people who are open and take things in strides. Last year I thought it’d be fun to have a common theme, yet uncommon request for all the commissions. I ended up requesting that all the commisions use only the FAnime mascots, and then ask each of the artists to also give me a reverse commission/request to make the commission request a little more entertaining. However the reverse commission ended up being a little bit awkward for some since I had essentially put them on the spot to think of something. In order to solve this awkwardness issue, I decided this year I’d change it up a bit.

I’ve always wondered what I’d do if I were ever stuck in a booth in the Artist Alley. When stuck in a situation I have this habit of thinking how to make it a game, and I’ve always been meaning to play a game with other artists in the hypothetical scenario that I were to get stuck in the same room with a bunch of artists. 

Fortunately, I discovered what this game was to be early last year when I was introduced to the game of Telestrations. Essentially it is a game of Telephone, except that the players alternate between writing and drawing the word or phrase on a notecard.

This resulted in me asking a set of artists draw a picture based off a word/phrase the previous artist before them chose. The game was split up into two teams where each team would draw a sequence of pictures, but the words would be chosen by the opposing team. My instructions to each were as follows:

1) If they were familiar with the game of Pictionary. 2) Show them a notecard with the word/phrase to draw 3) Request that it be Anime/FAnime themed and to be as literal or metaphorical as they want.

Once the picture drawn, I’d swap pictures with the other team and have them guess what was drawn, which be used as the next drawing prompt for the artist next in line.

I’m really glad that several of the artists got a kick out of it and even offered to do some of the drawings for free, and even offer artist recommendations to join in. I mostly chose artists that had commissions that didn’t exceed the $20 range, and looked for all types of styles to make the game interesting. I’ll include more of my own commentary in the subsequent posts.

Anyway the tldr; of all this is that when telling an artist to draw the word “vision” the final word ended up being “deflower,” and now you know the story of why I will get fucked when the ceiling comes falling down and I get stuck with a bunch of artists.

Red is totally in the comic con spirit and trying to cosplay as Pinkie Pie, while Pinkie just played Transistor and she is definitely on Team Red! Though I think Red is judging Pinkie’s cosplay caliber and she doesn’t seem impressed. The creative art was by agnesgarbowska who is totally on Team Pinkie!

amymebberson drew this adorably cute Red, with her comic con badge and bag filled with swag from the Mattel booth.

The only thing I’m disappointed about, is that Red is such a filthy casual of SDCC. I mean who only buys ONE bag of Mattel stuff. It’s not even filled to the brim!

katiecandraw is always awesome to ask for commissions!

I just finished the game Transistor, and now I’m hooked on the character Red. I’m not sure what it is about wheat fields and female protagonists with their vague love interest with some inanimate object... ya... that’s basically the ending to both Transistor and Portal 2.

Every year at SDCC, I usually get a commission from Boom! but they keep going up in prices! This year it was $30 to get this, and it was drawn on the same cover as last years! :(

To add salt to the wound, they didn’t have an Adventure Time scavenger hunt, so Marceline is freaking out, though Catbug and BMO are staying positive/oblivious to this drama.

hau-art convinced me to hangout with her and have fun at AX 2015. She introduced me to her friend reachforthemoon and I decided to ask her for a commission.

I used to play a lot of TF2, and due to lack of skill I played most of the click and hold classes(medic, pyro, heavy). I brainwashed a few people to join my Pika clan and one of them was named Beldandy who loved being demo. Oh the fun we had kritzing everyone.

I requested a commission from applewaffles at Fanime of bunny-hammer-fanime girl and fire fox. Unfortunately applewaffles is not too keen on old timer stuff like traditional paper and water colors, so I only get a pure digital copy which works because my smartphone camera probably wouldn’t do it justice!

I decided this year that the art I request should be related to fanime specifically so I chose the anime girls and how they deal with the mascots. Unfortunately it centers around abuse and betrayal.

claudia-law made sure bunny girl is a sore loser when losing to firefox. Bunny girl does have that tsundere/tantrum vibe going on.

automaticgiraffe had the task of drawing dragon/moose girl crush firefox. I’m assuming that she crushed him so hard the fart came out all at once.

Yellow fanime boy made me think he was a prick or at the very least one of those characters that are super lame and cause ichigo a bunch of headache. So I requested @hasuyawwn to draw him punting fanime cat.

When I got my badge on Friday for fanime, to my horror I got the eye-candy blue-haired boy and not any of the prettier artsy girls nor the fire doggy!

Things had to be righted and I looked for an artist that could draw the biggest boobs! My request was to make the character into a girl version but I either was misheard, or God is cruel and the artist felt that a boyish girl would fit him most appropriately.