Glitchy new header

Hey. I was going to wait until it was 100% finished before I posted it, but I was too excited. My blog has a new header now, paying homage to the fantastic Japanese vegetable juice commercial Po Pi Po. I wanted the BG to be transparent, but I couldn't get it done without a halo. (If anyone can help me with this, please let me know!) Eventually, I want to have icons scrolling on either side of Azrael like in the commercial, but I can't think of enough things that represent me. (If you can think of any, again, please let me know! So far I have the Watkins logo and the Batman signal.) I also need to draw Az bouncing a bit at the end of each po-pi-PO.

Here's my old banner for posterity...

and of course, the immortal Po Pi Po...

Penny Arcade

I really owe a lot of gratitude to Jordan Bickimer, who's teaching me to make game sprites for this calendar project. To say thanks, here's a sprite of his character Penny, the star of a self-titled graphic novel which will hopefully be leaving development hell soon.

This attack comes from a scene where she throws a shirt over her dad's head and beats his ass. It's super effective!

Sprites

Hey, all! Sorry I haven't updated in a few weeks. I was busy trying to have a life. Anyway, I'm in Illustration 3 now. Wanting to do something different for my first assignment, I decided to try my hand at pixel art!

These are my first attempts. They're character designs for a calendar done in the style of retro video games. Each month is a different level, as it chronicles the year-long quest of Super Jones to save his kidnapped girlfriend, Princess Amelie. On the far right is his evil doppelganger, Mirror Jones.

And just to show you I'm still thinking about the Little Mermaid, here's a sprite of Azrael, for kicks...