Good Guy Ganon; revisions

First wave of revisions that Ganon and Link went through during the summer of 2012. 

god would you look at this loser. Jeez. He looks like a huffy baby.

My Motorcity Phase; Artwork for other's

I really want to emphasize just how joyous and creative the community around Motorcity was. I met some long term friends through that show; it even helped me land a girlfriend! I really wasn't the only one spinning whacky scenarios with the characters and setting. I did do art for some of those people, though.

In one story, the Burners were mutated by the pollution in the Lake Erie;

In another story, Chuck became something of a cyborg;

And then in another he was brainwashed;

Fun times! Fun times. 

My Motorcity Phase; Android!Chuck

Another story idea that I really took a shine to was Android!Chuck. I am a big sucker for machines struggling to be/act human and I wasn't alone; a lot of people took a stab at it. My contribution to the conversation was this comic;

My Motorcity Phase; Bad Boy Chuck

Just a friendly reminder; this is a continuation of the post directly beneath it 8>b

But okay. The second time I drew that older, long-haired Chuck, the guy seemed pretty okay. A little tired maybe but decent.

And then there was the third time I drew him;

What a bad boy loser. The reasoning was that without Mike around to support him, Chuck began to overcompensate. Very silly. Very fun to play with. Even shoved him against grumpy Red!Mike to see what would happen;

Okay, so the story goes like this; 

Mike really needs a smoke break so he pats himself down until he finds a cigarette but he can’t find his lighter. 

A second later, he feels something knock his shoulder and looks up and there’s Chuck all >8| 

"Need a Light, Mikey?”  

And in that moment, they both know that the other knows they smoke. 

Mike doesn’t say anything, he just brings up his cig and Chuck lights his zippo and they just exchange a look thats this mixture of Judgement and Defensiveness. 

YOU SHOULD NOT BE SMOKING, MISTER 

and 

DON’T YOU JUDGE ME, YOU DON’T KNOW MY LIFE

And then someone asked about Chuck's LARPing friends (yes it is canon that he LARPs. This show was the most magical) and suddenly more people began getting aged up into this strange new future

And why stop there??

My Motorcity Phase; an introduction and the Red!Mike saga

So in the summer of 2012, Motorcity premiered on Disney XD and in its wake created an explosion of inspiration for the 20-somethings of the internet. The show had it all; fun and diverse cast, anime-inspired action scenes, post-apocalyptic world-building, a villain played by Mark Hamill! To top it all off, the show was set in Detroit, MI, where I'd been going to college. Everything about it just made me happy and the community that celebrated it was chock full of creative people more than willing to take the show and run with it. People threw out ideas and collectively, the ideas grew and changed with every new voice that brought life to it.

And then Titmouse, the studio creating Motorcity, found out about us and started trolling us for kicks. Bless their evil little hearts.

So okay, in the show, the protagonist Mike Chilton (squeaky clean, peppy, over-positive boy scout that he is) has a self-proclaimed nemesis nicknamed Red. Red never actually gives Mike their name, never really explains their motivations past "you ruined my life", never ever removes the helmet. The fandom liked Red a lot and there was a lot of speculation over who Red was and why they were important to the plot.

And then Titmouse released this image; an older Mike Chilton with a goatee, long hair, wearing Red's outfit. Obviously someone was just fooling around, but when it got posted there was a caption tagged on that was like "Red's identity revealed???"

shown; my immediate reaction

So seriously no wonder that the fandom blew a gasket. There was maybe five minutes spent going "OH MY GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS" before we all collectively agreed it was just them trolling. Then we started asking each other questions; is this Mike from the future? How does this change his motivations as 'Red'? Is he a clone? How can we make this sUPER FUN CONCEPT work? 

The hype around Red!Mike calmed down pretty quickly, though, and in its wake was this sudden interest in the cast as adults. He may not look it, but Mike is only supposed to be 17. There was a definite implication that Red!Mike was older, and pretty soon we started discussing the Burners (Mike's friends) as adults in a future where things may have gone very, very wrong. 

First phase directly influenced by Red!Mike's design, what with the long hair and the gross beard and the grumpy disposition. The rest of the Burners stayed far more positive than their leader.

And then, if memory serves me, someone drew older!Mike with shorter, kinda Dreamworks!Moses looking hair and this was my response;

The long haired blond (bishi) is Mike's best friend, Chuck, a programer who's a bit on the panicky side. I dunno if you noticed but there's a bit of a pattern between the two of them; age them up and one gets longer hair and one gets shorter hair. I fancy myself pretty clever. Long-haired!Chuck became a whole other story in and of itself, and thus deserves its own post. 

Httyd Painting Practice

What better way to practice digital painting than making subject someone you love.

Long time no see!

Hello again Blogspot how are you doing this early early morning? Surprised to see me? Yeah, I must apologize; my art and thoughts have been elsewhere. For shame, for shame...

But I'm back! And I have so much to share with you. I'll try to keep things in order so y'all can see how my art's naturally progressed in the two years. Things have been done, pictures have been drawn, storyboarding has become my passion right next to good old character-centric world-building, with just as much influence from existing media as you've come to expect. What can I say! I'm a fangirl at heart. All I want to do with my life is take things worth loving and share their stories.