I’m putting Frenzy on the back burner for now as i try to figure out if a few of the ideas i want for him are possible or not, but luckily while messing around doing some photo manipulation of my one of my friends who is helping me to study Japanese, i accidentally ended up with the concept for an all new (awesome) character, あきらマター (AkiraNator), a terrifying cyborg Japanese language instructor sent back in time from the future, hell-bent on making sure Bboy Krillin has done his homework.

Listen, and understand! That AkiraNator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you have done your homework.

Realised that the loose bits of paper i was using for the Roshambo concept art were starting to get a little ragged from living in my bag, so i spent some time sticking them into a nice little sketchbook, now they should be a little more robust and hopefully can take a lot more punishment travelling around with me

Fleshed out some of Anna Overlord’s backstory and junk, there’s some deep character development i’m working on here, it’s rich!

Frenzys character gets a little better thought out. The first sketch looked too much like Frenzy from the original G1 Transformers, I want this character to look like he’s not a fully fledged member of the Decepticons yet, like he has to go through some hazing beforehand by entering the Roshambo tournament, so right now he only has a hand-me-down robotic upperbody and the rest of him is still human.

I want to do a nice big splash image to promote the game and just simply to draw something Roshambo related that isn’t scribbles, here’s some of the thinking i do before approaching a big piece, group shots are always difficult to do but it’ll be so satisfiying to have a more finished piece to display.

Yet again it’s been a while since the last update of my beloved Roshambo game, sucks i don’t have the time to devote to it right now, crazy hours at work and lack of sleep conspire against me!

Anyway, bought a little sketchpad the other day for a life drawing class that turned out to be lies and horseshit, as a result it has now leveled-up into the OFFICIAL ROSHAMBO SKETCH BOOK!

Here are the first scribbles from that book, stand in awe people, stand in awe…

Introducing my heavy hitter type character, Backspin Paddy, fear him.

Not sure i like drawing in this landscape format, might go back to portrait format instead, squeeze more content into my brainstorms!

Expect more regular updates from now on!

Type O Negative. R.I.P. Pete Steele (January 4, 1962 – April 14, 2010), You guys have no idea how much i regret having never seen ToN live in concert, now i’ll never have that chance.

So I have now had the misfortune of owning a Blackberry “Curve” for over a year, I know how it works and what it strengths and weaknesses are, and after all this time I believe I can honestly sum the product up in one sentence. Blackberry is a piece of shit.

Still some may find this a little harsh, so let me break down what I have had to deal with during my time with this “smartphone”.
Pros:
Decent camera (when it actually works and I don’t have to pull the fucking battery out of the back to do a force reset, then wait five minutes while it reboots just to get the zoom function to work again.)
Cons:
Rollerball interface is incredibly unresponsive.
Laggy as hell.
Fuckall memory.
BLUETOOTH DOES NOT WORK. EVER.
No signal, randomly looses signal depending where I am, what building i’m in, etc
Randomly shuts down when I am in the middle of browsing the internet, writing emails, texting.
Internet browser cannot display web pages accurately.
Screen is tiny, half the front of the phone is a keyboard, so viewing anything requires zooming in and then both the lag and rollerball fight it out to see who can be most annoying….