A Boy and His Ape

I am Bored: Turkeyman

2010-05-01T05:50:00.001-07:00

What lurks behind his sinister loincloth?

I Am Bored: Vehicles

2010-04-07T18:19:00.000-07:00

I present: the Stallagmobile!

AND: My long history of playing Final Fantasy allowed me to realize that a minor recolouring would yield:

THE BANANACAR!

I am Bored: Spelunky

2010-03-31T03:04:00.001-07:00

Don't rightly know if the character has a name or not, but he's provided me with 1100-plus of his lives to keep me entertained (and cussing), so it's only fair that I render him in pixels while bored.

I Was Bored: Ewok

2010-03-27T08:32:00.000-07:00

The first one, from three days ago.

I don't get bored on weekends, so this is all you get.

I am Bored: Boy and Ape

2010-03-26T16:16:00.000-07:00

The titular boy and ape. Wish I had some snazzy ape-riding gloves...

I Am Bored: R13

2010-03-25T17:07:00.000-07:00

Going to see how long I can keep this up for: every day I will get bored (sad but true) and try to remember to channel that into drawing something pixelated. Also, I may try to stick to preexisitng characters - I won't be so perfectionistic about them.

Today: R13, from the comic book R13!

Aw, look at his little axe.

Let's document things!

2008-06-28T14:06:00.000-07:00

I was playing around in Photoshop to make a banner for another site and I ended up with this. It was supposed to be something entirely different, plus the idea doesn't really work as well as I'd envisioned. Still, it's neat enough to put online.

That's me, by the way, sans glasses. The red/brown background and gaps between colour chunks are due to the fact that I just plain didn't take the time to finish.

Whee!

Anudder Dragon

2008-03-20T17:27:00.001-07:00

Another dragon. This one's named Rippentearo the Cuddler. He's associated with my friend Devin.

Fiction time.

2008-03-07T17:55:00.001-08:00

This is what I did for a half hour or so at work today (people from work: this is a lie to make me seem cool, I swear). It turned out interestingly, so I'm gonna put it on the Internet.

Linear progression! Johnathan to comic book Johnathan!

Okay, so this is where we started. This is me about a year ago, showing my love for the then-just-released Showcase Presents: The Legion of Super-Heroes. It's a good picture - it shows off my nerdish glee to good effect. It's been my Blogger pic for most of the time that I've had it, I think.

Next step: running this sucker through, uh, Microsoft Photo Editor (don't have it on this computer (people at work: yes I do)), which is a semi-lousy program overall but which has some of the best effects filters ever. This one is 'Stamp' and it's my favourite. A lot of pictures look fantastic from the getgo after being run through it - this one looks reasonably neato.

I've been experimenting with the pattern stamp in Photoshop. Specifically, I've been trying to put together some nice patterns out of scanned Silver Age comic books. I kind of lost steam on the project after a crash lost me a lot of nice work, but I've got some of the 1960s colours that I covet. Together with the stamp-ified image, they look pretty boss, I think. Note the wonky colours - I was operating from memory (which explains Lightning Lad's wonky palette) and low on variety (which explains Superboy's orange belt). You might be able to see this if you click the thing bigger: the wall behind my head is coloured with the 'blank paper' pattern that I've put together to simulate pulp stock from 1964.

Finally, the variant, in which the solid black has been replaced with comic book black, which means a speckled dark gray. I think I sampled this one from a tuzedo in a Richie Rich comic. Not sure which one I like better, frankly.

That's that, whee.

Concept Art!

2008-01-23T14:47:00.001-08:00

Well, the pencil didn't scan so well, but it really doesn't matter. If you click on this bad boy you can see most of the details. Mostly I wanted to post it because I was so surprised by how much it resembled the final product. I kind of wish that I'd gone with the big square feet, though.

The Water Cycle

2008-01-13T08:22:00.001-08:00

Whew! I just finished putting in some serious Photoshop hours working on a promotional image for my friend's online watergun-fight-in-cardboard armour gaming experience, Goodbye Robot Army, which goes into a new round of testing tonight. Here's the image, sans verbage:

And here it is with all of my helpful labels:

Click 'em to make 'em bigger!

A dragon

2007-12-30T19:48:00.000-08:00

A dragon in the Charlie Brown wall-talk pose, smoking. This just needed to be online, but I invite you to enjoy it anyway.

This is the place, these are the times.

2007-12-04T18:52:00.000-08:00

This here is my secondary blog-thing. Paul and John Review is good fun, but I've kind of formatted myself into a corner over there, in that everything is in the form of a review (duh). A Boy and His Ape shall be the place where I post everything that doesn't really fit the review format - hopefully including lots of drawrings and the like.

Here, look at this:

The picture that inspired the name of the blog. And what, you may ask, is an SPP Boy? That's me, I may say in return, since I spend a large part of my work week editing Standard Plant Procedures at my place of employment. SPP ape was born out of my semi-snotty response to someone asking what SPP Boy would ride around on.

I should stop drawing on post-its in ballpoint.

Here's an updated "I've cut my hair and gotten a wrist brace" version:

That's a tough-looking wrist brace, I must say.

Anyway, that's that. First post.