Controversial Ranking of Every Venomous

01. Professor Venomous (original recipe)

the man, the myth, the one we (Boxman included) all fell for. points for being a good dad to at least one of his children and minus the rest for being the worst person ever. but at least he’s hot.

02. Ex-hero pre-Venomous post-Laser

longer hair, looser morals, frequently without shirts, a hint of desperation

03. Professor Venomous (older)

he’s got greying hair, a ponytail and a wedding ring what else do you want me to say

04. Laserblast (sans helmet)

chaotic neutral twunk energy. genius in some areas (very intelligent! expert fighter!) and himbo in others (no common sense!)

05. Shadowy Venomous

terrible. but hot in a crazy way!

06. Laserblast (with helmet)

a much nicer guy (seemingly...) but you can’t see his pretty eyes ):

07. Shadowy Figure

you never see his eyes either but he is 100% a big ol’ bitch

this is just my ranking, but PVs all essentially equal (except Shadowy, he’s bad.) all just the same disaster bisexual with low self-esteem and a pretty face. Mechasuit!Venomous, PV-with-Laserblast’s helmet and snakeman!Venomous are excluded on the grounds of being just the extra crispy and spicy flavors of the original (Mecha & PV with Lasers)  and being a visual gag (snake.)

I had a really excellent scary dream last night and I spent a few hours making a Sketch-up model of the room in it. I can’t get the little library out of my head.

The dream was about my family renting a big house for $1000 and not really questioning it, even though peculiar things started happening. The house had a library and on the third day of moving in, I discovered another (tiny) personal library off of the garage.

It only had one way in (from outside) and it was adorable. I was enamored - until I got to the table near the window with a bunch of occult books about demon summoning and black craft. Then I realized a rotting smell was coming from the room, and after my family and I searched it and found no cause, we decided to just lock it and not go back in.

After that, the house started expanding. A three bedroom house suddenly turned into a six bedroom house and some rooms started taking on an older, dirty look. More rooms began to appear. It was as though the smaller house was an illusion, hiding a bigger, darker estate underneath. I still didn’t question it.

I didn’t even question that, while standing on the balcony above the secret library, you’d hear strange sounds below. I was just happy to have a huge place for next to nothing, even though no matter how much I cleaned it got dirtier and bigger.

I think, even though the spell for the “outer” house was wearing off, the spell for turning a blind eye got stronger. What were we missing? And why? Who knows. We ended up happily buying the house in the dream so we probably never escaped.

12/8/2017, Mississippi.

oh hey here’s pictures of some of the jewelry I made for my “””side hustle”““at the farmer’s market. (I stopped for the summer bc the heat makes me sick 😣)

DVD commentary:

AU where everything is the same but after every chapter there's a Very Special Episode ™ PSA with Buccellati 

rinse & repeat for eternity.

@monstersinthecosmos tagged me in the selfies of 2016 meme!! more or less in chronological order (the white russian is new year’s ‘16, the last pic is december. middle hazy.)

listen, if you haven’t done it and want to, i’m specifically tagging you right now.

a life story -- a vegetation bildungsroman, if you will-- about tiny plants:

their wee lives started in a makeshift growlight greenhouse, before they moved to container gardens. it was great being in the sun at last -- so great, in fact, that they grew too big! (pictured is some of their former housing; a drawer re-purposed & modified to be a bed.)

the gardeners growing them had to be resourceful again. they decided to make a raised garden. the brick walls came from a firepit that was naught but ruins after the heavy spring rain flooded the backyard. 

what the rain destroyed, however, couldn’t compare to what it created. sowed by love and fed by storms, the little plants grew into robust tomato and pepper plants that have just started sharing their harvest.

our garden is a small, but true DIY effort with a lovely reward.

let’s play “results from google history with no context”. each is like a little story ♥

Photos I Took That I Couldn’t Be Assed to Share Pt. 01

I used to be in the habit of taking food pictures, but forgetting to post them because I’m like, what’s the point? I never post any photos anymore. This is a new series of photos I call “(Food) Photos I Took That I Couldn’t Be Assed to Share.” (I might pull a Mel Brooks and leave this as the only part. Who knows.)

Last summer I was all alone in the house for many hours. A rare occasion, so that meant a favorite indulgence: cooking for one! I had a craving for mac-n-cheese, but that’s not fun enough.

You know what IS fun? Some spicy peppers, diced tomatoes, and -- even though the FDA recommends Tabasco for a lil kick -- Crystal hot sauce. Crystal is the only hot sauce I’ve liked enough to actually lick off my arm when I spilled it making blood marys. Have I told that pig story? Probably.

I don’t even have to tell you the mac was great. Or to make spicy mac yourself.

Pictured also is a nice garden salad and glass of sweet tea because GOD DUH I’M FROM MISSISSIPPI but I thought it made a pretty plate as well as being tasty! And healthy sorta!

Sophie saw me taking pictures, though, and didn’t understand.

“Why are you spending five damn minutes doing that and not sharing with baby dog!!” 

(I was spending five damn minutes and not sharing with baby dog.)

“I hate Meg.” (She hates Meg.)

There’s a happy ending, as only time can allow: after I finished delicious meal above, I let her lick a little cheese from the empty plate -- that’s how we’re still friends to this day.

discussing this on Plurk (armand = me, lestat = oramuda, arthur & merlin are my friends neko and frankie, respectively.)

01/29/2015, Lights (5:30 → 6:30 pm)

10/30/2014 

I'm a problem-solver. I was born a problem-solver. One of my favorite things about streamlining and perfecting my workflow is identifying what's wrong and finding ways to fix it. I live for these challenges.

My current challenge was how nit-picky I get over inking Morning to Moon, since I do so at 600DPI. Even though I usually draw at 33-50%, it's hard for me to draw really zoomed out because of my hand not being steady (yay tremors.) But the closer I get the more anal I get and it reached this ... zenith where I was driving myself crazy.  So I'm going to share some bits of process and how I solved that. :^)

What we have is a sketch, done digitally. To make it as readable as possible, I do a really messy one then a cleaner one on top :B I sketch the entire page, but after I change the lines (including the panel lines) to cyan, I crop them into blocks, like so.

I print each block (with the opacity taken down significantly) on a piece of card stock, so I can ink over it. It's printed full-page, landscape orientation.

One of the reasons I like to sketch digitally if I'm inking traditionally is because I can move around stuff until I get it right. (And also I hate eraser bits.)

As you can tell, the drawings are way larger than on the comic page. Quality control, but also I can do small details with a pen easier.

I ink over the sketches with about four different pens. I do the thick outlines first, on the entire page, then the smaller ones. I generally do backgrounds/objects digitally because I can make better usage of shapes. 

I do the thicker outlines with a Sharpie, and smaller details with Prismas/Microns. One of the reasons for this is that Sharpie pens have a pretty thick line -- even the finer ones -- so I can draw bigger without worrying about lines being too thin. Second reason is Sharpie pens are cheap! A set of 5 Prismas is $16 and Microns are $3 where I buy them. A Sharpie pen is $1.50 and lasts forever, so it does the bulk of my work!

I scan it in at 600 DPI, and drop the Cyan in Photoshop. (I do almost the same thing as here, except I usually play with Levels after.)

After saving it as a PNG, I import into MangaStudio, set to Multiply and fit the drawing into the panels.

I do a little redrawing because I'm eternally dissatisfied with life. This is after that, background + blacks added.

And finally, the panels after tone and word bubbles added!

So yeah, that's my current method. It works really well for now. Things to take away from this? If something works for you, don't worry about how unconventional/weird it is. 

heysawbones is a cool kid and I wanna be a cool kid too, so I'm sharing a lot of ancient and mostly embarrassing art, more or less old-->new chronologically.

(I swiped them off my dA accounts because I looked through my LJ and the only art on LJ that was not broken images was probably cross-posted on Tumblr, since I've had a Tumblr for like. 4 years now. If you wanna see old-ass Tumblr art, this is the same Tumblr I've had since 2010. Knock yourself out.)

01. 2005? Supposed to be Tom Riddle from Harry Potter?? I'd been trying to learn to paint digitally since I'd gotten a tablet at 16. I kept making hairlines too high. And sucking at painting.

02.  Door, from Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I went through a phase where I didn't hate Neil Gaiman.

03. Original. That profile. For what purpose.

04. Dr. Orpheus, a $5 "commission" for the goddess, juliedillon. I say that with disdain for myself because Julie deserved better. This was 2007 ... so I did what I could. Bless her. I cannot believe we've known each other that long, though. 0_0 (Since '06, I think.)

05. I always had really creative, good ideas and a love for surrealism but very poor execution.

06. Dragged kicking & screaming into the anime fandom realm at the ripe age of 19...  with Faye Valentine. Better with face anatomy/coloring but my value could use so much work. Her nose is just floating there.

07. One of the best things that ever happened to me was jurijuri sending me a metric fuckton of Prismacolors when she changed markers. It was 2008 and I was so bad at them. I loved 'em (still have 'em & still do!) & practiced my ass off to not be ashamed of my marker work. Cannot let Juri-senpai down.

08. A page from an unfinished modern AU Samurai Champloo doujin. I could not panel. At all. I did not understand it.

09. Narcissa Malfoy, from Harry Potter. By '08, I was getting better at skin. I guess. She still looks like shiny plastic.

10. Then you have some diamonds in the rough. This isn't too bad? It's Mila Rose, from Bleach, which I did in Corel Painter. And for a 6-year-old picture, it's not awful.

08/05/2014 (2/2)