My Friend Rachel, cartoonized

Back in June, Rachel had a contest for her facebook group for people to make an entry for the group's banner. I lost track of time and by the time I realized it, I just submitted a random car design. I lost...but got second place, with the prize of giving her a new avatar for a month. 

Rather than give her a random image from google (briefly considered Zoidberg...hey, why not Zoidberg?) I made her a one of a kind original cartoon version of herself.

This one...it came out amazingly great. The face really does look like hers (same glasses, hairstyle, and a Pokeball for her love of Pokemon...lol), the body...well, I think I had some scale issues in retrospect. But, live, learn, practice, and try again (someday anyway).

In short, she liked it for a month I saw her on my friends list with my creation.

-Spin

Programs used: Paint Shop Pro X2, Paint Tool SAI

Production time: 3-4 hours 

Cornelius, The Brave Knight

Wow...5 months without a single update. But to be fair, I have not had much time to work on anything new (college...taken up all my time). 850+ pageviews...last time I checked my blog I was around 600 I think. So I give mad props to the people checking my blog, despite the lack of updates. Believe me...for what I plan in the coming weeks this wait will be worth the wait. I'm taking on animation...and not just any kind, I'm bringing the Phantom back. The first full length movie will be a completely original music video of Ember's "Remember". It's all new animation, not clips from the show (I mean no disrespect to anyone who has done that, I personally wouldn't have the patience to go and trim clips so quite the contrary you have my respect). If all goes well, I plan to release the video on 12/25/12...but with my luck that will get pushed back. So keep checking back, I'll be doing more work in the impending weeks.

Now...whatizit??? (above lol)

The creation above is something I did for my friend Rachel. She had an art contest on facebook a few weeks back for who can draw the best looking vision of Cornelius. The specs I had was that he was a knight, turned into a bear by a witch's curse (I'll link up a story when she finishes it)...so I did something to that extent, and gave him a star shield (shoutout to Rockstar Energy lol). Turns out I won the contest, which was awesome and my image got used on her group's header for a while. I know it's not DP...but it was done in the DP style.

The question is...what's with the random orange he's standing on? Well...last year she was supposed to meet up with one of her friends and in her good hearted nature brought him an orange as he had no money for food and was moving from friend's place to friend's place (dude was homeless...long story why). He stood her up, I ran into her, and walked around with her for a few hours. Eventually the orange dropped to the ground and we just laughed calling it the "evil orange". So, the whole image is supposed to represent good conquering evil.

Overall, he came out great I think and she loved him.

Programs used: Paint Shop Pro X2, Paint Tool SAI
Production time: 7 hours