batman is my guitar hero

As promised, as delivered. I make good on my word!

I love making Guitar Hero World Tour (360) characters. It's pretty awesome, and I'm pretty awesome at it. My GH band is named Superfluous, and for it I have many custom characters, including Donkey Kong, Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, the black and the white Green Lantern, Spider-Man, Venom, The Riddler, and the Joker.

Pictures below! As always, click to enlarge, my lovely little internet people.

Ttyl

ps the first one is Donkey Kong

conchordy goodness

Flight of the Conchords is now in its second season, and so far I've enjoyed the two new episodes. The music isn't quite as strong as the first season (though still very funny), but I think the comedy and writing actually might be a little bit better.

In other news, I found a cool t-shirt website, threadless.com, where you can set up an account and submit shirt ideas, and the site's community votes on them. If you wanna check out my ideaas, go to http://www.threadless.com/profile/885009/themilkman89.

So to the pictures!



This is a kinda poster I made while listening to Hypnotize by System of a Down. It's a good exercise, listening to music and sketching whatever random visual pops into your head.



This is a drawing I did of Batman and Robin (DC Comics). I like this style myself.



And this is a more artsy picture. I stared at my hand for a long long time to draw that hand lol. I actually drew this long before the house fire I was in New Years.

So yeah. That's it for today's update.

ttyl


Special Preview of the Next Update! I like to make awesome custom characters in Guitar Hero 4. Like Batman and Robin, or the Riddler. I'm gonna post some pics soon.

to the batcave!

Turbines to speed!

So this blog is going to be mostly random, as it is mostly just to show off some new pics, but I also wanna rant about who's its and what's its. Firstly, I love the Justice League Unlimited. It's probably the best superhero cartoon ever. Period. It introduced me to Booster Gold, and that's awesome, and has storylines so awesome one of them involves a Gorilla Batman.

Gorilla.

BATMAN.

Also, as a big Flight of the Conchords fan (New Zealand's fourth-most popular folk rock band!), I was very excited to stumble upon a movie called Eagle Vs Shark, an indie kiwi comedy starring Conchord Jemaine Clement. It was funny and touching, with a tone falling somewhere between Napoleon Dynamite and Science of Sleep. This movie certainly isn't for everybody, but I loved it.

And onto more photos! Other than my above-seen Batmobile (DC Comics), I also drew a couple Spider-Men (Marvel).


This Spider-Man is hanging from his feet from a string of web. I really wish people would showcase the fact that Spider-Man can not only crawl but walk on walls. That is, that his feet are magically delicious sticky. Ergo, he should be able to grab onto some web just fine with his feet.


This Spider-Man is another exhibition of his footy abilities; he's just chilling, giving you the big ol' double thumbs-up.

And I leave you, fine people of Le World, with a mock Batman page I did; the close-ups are detailed, but the other shots are a quirkier style I like. Click to enlarge.



Ttyl.

life, texas, surgery, and crying batman

So I went to Texas with my friends Brian and Joe over the weekend; it was quite a bit of fun. Just driving around down there is exciting!

Because you could die at any minute; I've never seen worse traffic than I saw in Ft. Worth.

Things I observed:
~No one will yield for you.
~Even if mandated by driving law.
~They'll actually probably just cut you off.
~Don't bother honking, they know you're there--they just do not care at all.

BUT
Fort Worth was also a really fun place; there's something alluring about being somewhere where you don't know anyone at all, and no one knows you. A certain freedom I guess. Plus, we went to Jack-N-the-box! A wondrous place, that I really wish Oklahoma hadn't gotten rid of for whatever reason.

While we were there, we also went to some mall in Fort Worth and to this huge awesome grocery store called Central Market, that had all kinds of awesome foods, foreign and domestic. I left there with a baguette (great), some Japanese ramen noodles (also great), and a bag of British Breakfast tea (amazing).

And yes, we also stopped by a pr0n shop (we don't have those here in Oklahoma), and had many a laugh at the ridiculous video titles and premises.

On the way back from Texas, we stopped off in Lawton to see a mutual friend we met at Izumicon--an OKC anime convention--in November. It was a pretty awesome visit. We went to a mall there, where everyone knew everyone, and we went to the first K-Mart I've seen in Oklahoma for at least five years. We had some great food at a local IHOP (kudos Lawton IHOP employees!).

We also played hide-and-seek, which was great fun, and reminded me of Jon Lajoie's song High as F***. As we get older, we really DO forget how to play, and just enjoy ourselves, it seems.

Then Monday after returning from Winter Break Road Trip 2008, I had surgery to remove a vericose vein from my left testicle, and to widen my urethra. Everything went fine, I wasn't accidently castrated or anything. I am however in quite a bit of pain now (it hurts even to fart) and am currently hoping for my loritab to kick in and take me back to magical drowsy happy land. I'm no longer urinating blood though, which is a relief to be sure.

So now that everyone's all updated and whatnot, today's pic: Crying Batman!



Batman is sad because his parents are deeeaaaaaddddddd.

Anyway, this was my attempt at drawing a more emotional side of Batman than typically seen. It wasn't inspired by anything, really, other than the thought that I bet Batman probably randomly breaks down into tears--someone who dresses like a bat and fights crime can't be that emotionally stable.

I took a pic of my best fake-cry face and used that as a reference; aside from the Batman's lips being a bit big, I'm pretty happy with the end result.

As always, comments both welcome and appreciated!

double team on a friday night

Want some pics? They're coming up after this bit of update on my life: tonight, I saw Shiny Toy Guns at the Diamond Ballroom. I think I preferred one of their opening acts tho: El Paso Hotbutton. This guy, from Norman, Oklahoma, played guitar and drums while singing. And was great! Like, he seriously rocked my mind. I'd recommend giving him a listen, if you like bands like the White Stripes (but not so fucking artsy; I can love artsy, but not if it gets in the way of, ykno, sounding good.



So there's a story for this: I was on a camping trip with some friends, who were coloring in a dinosaur coloring book. Which somehow inspired me to draw Leonardo the Turtle (mirage studios) riding my best attempt to draw a dinosaur without a reference.

I like it.




This is my version of Protoman (Capcom). I was going for like, a grown up realistic version of Protoman. I added the goatee for creepy measure. He kinda looks French, I think, with that scarf. I like this pic, even though it reminds me more of like Kamen Raider or a Power Ranger, which isn't too bad I guess. A bit funnier that way.