Double Threat
I have always wished that I could draw. Man, it would be awesome if i could simply spend a few months and put my own comic together, but I cannot. I really cannot. I suck at drawing. In my teenage years I got the idea that I might be able to do it, and so I went about diligently copying panels and people from comic books. I think I might still have the pages around somewhere. I’d love to look for them, maybe even post some up. I rememeber drawing a wicked Dhalsim from the Street Fighter comic, he was really shadowed with his emaciated six-pack and everything, it came out quite alright.
I also delighted in doing a lot of Simpsons characters from the comics. I have stacks of pages of Krusty as the bad guy, and Bartman doing his thing. I remember I was doing pretty well at it, but one day I couldn’t draw Mayor Quimby as the Mudslinger, he was covered in mud and I kept setting his head too low in his neck/chest. I don’t remember trying to draw another picture out of that abyssmal failure. I’m not one to give up straight away, but this one picture pissed me off for days. Then the pictures seem to dwindle out. Don’t worry, it’s not a shame.
For all of my copying, and some of it marginally successful, I could never come up with an image out of my own head. I couldn’t even draw a simple Simpsons character from out of my head, so I was never going to do anything more and thus produce a comic, or so I told myself. So I probably sat back with another book to read and learned the craft of writing, for which I was always more parital.
But - yesterday I was teaching an art lesson and so decided to have another little dabble myself. The results are varied. I did a nice stick figure-esque Daredevil.

It’s amusing, and I’d love to color it, or ink it, if I knew how to do either without just a red texta or a ball point pen.
I did up a personal little Cthulhu logo, as I invisage the cute little blighter. For those who don’t know Cthulhu is the monster-typre god from H.P. Lovecraft’s writings. He has an octopus face and some wings, I went without the wings, I really just love the image of the octopus face. And yes, Lovecraft predated Pirates of the Carribbean by many a decade.

I went for the lower case ‘cthulhu’ because I think it looks better. Though the writing should be more centred under the pic, oh well.
The last one is the one I like the most, and is probably the best you would ever get out of my head, and even then it’s still not publication worthy, in fact not even bloody close. But it was fun to do for five minutes.
I bring you, the Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing:

M.O.D.O.K. He’s such a cool looking character, though me and my brothers always had a funnier name for him. My eldest brother had a mate whose last name was Herredy (if that’s how it is spelled) and this bloke had a massive dial. So we always called M.O.D.O.K. Herredy Head. Harsh? Harsh but fair.
So, after that little foray into the unknown I will most assuredly stick to my writing. Oh god, I hope my writing is better than my art…
Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by ryan
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