Holiday Tidings from the Manguine

Merry Christmas from the Man-eating Manguine!

Red and the Wolfe Chapter 09 is released!

Chapter 09 is finally out! It took a long time, in fact, I've already submitted and received approval on the final chapter of the book, 10! It is one little book in a big sea of comics/graphic novels/manga on comixology. But of all the comics, graphic novels, and manga I've seen, I've never seen anything that quite looks like Red, so I feel pretty good about that.

https://www.comixology.com/Red-and-the-Wolfe-9-Hes-Arriving/digital-comic/429684

Dr. Fiona Katsubana's shower

Dr. Fiona Katsubana takes a caustic shower dissolving her flesh to prove her hypothesis that her soul can remain living in her animated skeleton. Just finished my second book of developing this God Labs idea, this is the last page of Black Book II. I was originally going to work on a biblical story that wasn’t so dark, but I kept coming back to this idea of a nuclear laboratory and scientists trying to make a gate to heaven and it just started to grow in my brain mush. I could really feel it push out my thinking about Red and the Wolfe and take over, and I was like ‘oh boy, this is a grim story.’

Uncanny Valley fanart

My fanart of Eve from Uncanny Valley, which I recommend to all those looking for a psychological pixel art horror game about being a security guard in a mysteriously abandoned human robotics laboratory!

The Black Books

I made these Black Books out of the pile of super ink absorbing plotter paper my dad brought me from when he was printing plotting things. I've been developing my tentatively titled 'God Labs™' in them. I feel like they look ominous and consistent with the world I've been drawing, so when I see the books and look through them it all feels so nice and uniform and warm and I evaporate into love.

Dr. Katsubana's God Labs ID and clearance card

"Dr. Fiona Katsubana, a leading expert in persistence-of-soul research, demonstrated the validity of her hypotheses by dissolving the flesh from her mortal body. She lives on as an animated skeleton often experimenting on herself to scientifically deduce why she yet lives."

Zionist Nazi

another marry worth, or, no this is sally forth

I always call this strip marry worth in my head, is that a different comic strip?

inktober! The God Labs reactors

Inktober! It hardly counts as I'm working in ink right now so it's not really a challenge to inktober because I ink all over the place. This page was an experiment though because I was mixing inks and soaking the filler material of used up Faber-Castell PITT pens (which are expensive, 5 money a pen and they run out fast) to reactivate them and it seems to have worked! One of the dangers here is that they can mold which I've had happen with water brush pens I filled with ink.

Krull, the nuclear technician

inktober! studies

Inktober! These are some drawings I did from the s.t.a.l.k.e.r. concept art, and one of a RBMK nuclear reactor refueling crane. I'm experimenting with using inks for the next story I've been working on, and I've been doing a lot of research on nuclear reactors and labs and such. I did want to be a nuclear physicist before I pursued art, so in a lot of ways I'm fulfilling my dream!

Horse Joke inktober!

My friend Jon sent me a couple horse jokes he wrote, here is one I illustrated today for inktober!

Inktober my anime!

Now that I've got some anime drawing under my belt I can start to branch off on my own and make some of my own ultra sweet cute anime characters!

inktober 2016! hentiober!

Inktober! A friend informed me this is from a fanservice anime, which is ironic, because in the reference image I used she is covering her boob, but I drew her nipple because I didn’t want to draw her hand!

Inktober sketchbook page

INKTOBER but not anime, this is what I've been working on after finishing Red. Some kind of story about a laboratory and doing experiments to get into heaven and nuclear reactors and killing people to see where their souls go and abominations show up and weird tall mutilated guys with guns named Romulus and Remus, some kind of thing like that.

Inktober 08! Aninkober!

Inktober! I felt like in school our professors were slightly dismissive of anime. I think they wanted us to focus on fundamentals and less on anime stylization, but I've been looking up manga drawing guides and it is really technical in ways I didn't expect. I'm no stranger to anime, but I wanted to draw in this style this october because it is antipathetic to the way I usually draw and I think that's interesting. Also I'm trying to be more cute, just, personally...

inktober!

animektober! octobermek! inkmetober! Bottom line is anime-october-ink, that's the theme I choose anyway. Sorry it's not a picture of a cat farting...

Cat Fart.

Inktober! This is still going with my anime theme because this is from a manga

Inktober 2016 2

inktober! animautumn! noshavenovember! enjoyahotdogdecember! going to be a busy season.

Inktober 2016!

Inktober 2016! I was going to also try to make it 80sanimetober because I've been looking into a lot of that recently. This paper was weird to use, it's plotter paper my dad brought me from weyerhaeuser that has a super ink absorbent coating on one side. I use it a lot with ball point pens, but with a nib and ink it was sucking the ink out of the nib like some kind of greedy ink sucking absorber. Anyway that's why the lines are so gluttonous.