Colonel Guile is a mean Street Fighter with some secret moves

Unfortunately for you, the secret moves he has, are completely unrelated to the video game franchise he is a part of. Strike that, you would never have really noticed Guile if not for his perfect hair...and so, maybe his secret morning routine of Vega brand hairspray and a high-powered blow dryer really do need to brought into the canon of the Street Fighter universe.

I'd love to see this as part of an epilogue after beating the game...

Browncoats brown

I've been doing fun little challenge on Instagram: geek photo a day

Follow all the fun photos people are posting by searching #geekphotoaday

Here was today's theme: Browncoat brown. If you're unfamiliar with the Browncoats, I suggest you buy a Firefly DVD or watch it on Netflix. Enjoy!

The foxes he's carrying are a nod to the show's abrupt cancellation.

Viking time

Here's a little work up of that drawing from yesterday!

Nerd Alert

Is it weird that I feel uncomfortable with everyone throwing around the "nerd" term? Allow me to explain: I don't mean that I'm uncomfortable because its really mean or derogatory. I guess I feel like I can't jump on board when people just add nerd after whatever thing they're obsessed about. ie: I'm a total _______nerd. 

While that may be true in some cases, I feel like people are jumping on the nerd bandwagon. There are a lot of people around the old internet these days claiming nerd genes without really striving for that peak of isolated, obsessive, really-good-at-what-you-do nerdiness. 

Look, I understand that there is a really solid philosophical argument for nerd-dom branching into every area of society but I don't think it applies when a person is only going half speed into their chosen nerd path. Ok, ok...I need to pipe down.

Ok, I'm piped. At any rate, I drew this guy and I love him. Thanks to the fantastic Mr. Frenden, that's Ray Frenden to you folks, and his marvelous brush pack for Photoshop, this little digital drawing was done in a jiffy.

 Here's just a simple version of him. He's sad because he knows that people only spend an average of under 5 minutes looking at a given blog post per day. Stick around, maybe he'll cheer up.

A little animation of how I worked it up with those Frenden brushes.

Maybe I'm a little bitter. I need to check that I think...

Ryu and his lil Hadoken

So it turns out that I really like making these. This one uses the original animation from Street Fighter 2 plus a couple in between frames for a better flow. It was hand drawn and animated in Photoshop CS5. I worked at 300 ppi at 800 pixels square and then shrunk it down when I was finished for ease of loading online. Hope you like it!

While you're at it, go on over to my Tumblr and "like" or reblog it. It's a good way to know if these are something that people would like me to keep posting or not.

Dragons on the move...

I was playing around today with the old NES sprite animations for Double Dragon. I used their funky, 3 frame walk cycle to create little cartoon guys. Who knew it was animated gif day?! The background was thrown together rather hurriedly so I may go back in and  tune up the drawings while I fix the background. Then again, they may just stay like this as an excercise. Feel free to use them as avatars as long as you link back here or give me credit. :)