Getting back to Ren and Stimpy. It must be frustrating to want to make a cartoon. It's easy to tell when someone wanted to make something for a grown-up audience, only to have to re-tool it for kids. The best of these can turn out to still be really entertaining for both kids and adults. Ren and Stimpy (at least for a while) did this well. Since then there have been lots more, and I've got time to kill.
SpongeBob Squarepants - Jesus, what can I even tell you about this show that you don't already know? It's been around forever and has long since gone the way of The Simpson(I ain't even gonna link it). Well, there was a time when this show was complete tits. I mean that it was good, it's a kid's show, right? So this show had two major things going for it: a - It has Dobber from Coach. Also known as Broadway from Gargoyles (which, holy shit, good job Disney). b - Tom Kenney from Mr. Show. Mr. Show is waaaaaay too good, and Kenney takes a lot of this humour to the cartoons he's in. Keep him in mind because he comes up again.
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack - This show is by J.G. Quintel, and it's one of those shows that got cancelled because it's too good. It's so good I named my goddam cat Flapjack. Quintel so badly wants to do humour for adults but his major series are technically aimed at children. If you only click on one link in this whole post, make it this one; it's a short he did, I believe as his graduate work.
Regular Show - This is the good stuff, right here. Another show by Quintel, I've never seen a show where the stoner/slackerness of the two main characters was so thinly disguised. Luckily this one is getting way more of a shot than Flapjack did, and it's now several seasons running.
Adventure Time - You have probably at least heard of this one too. Pen Ward created this pretty excellent show and it features the previously mentioned Tom Kenney. This is one of the biggest breakout hits of the last ten years. With good reason, too. Pretty much everything about it is excellent, from the art and colours to the writing and acting. It flops between light and cheery and heavily depressing, with a story that's increasingly crazy. A paragraph blurb isn't nearly enough for me to explain why this show rules, you'll just have to trust me and watch it.
Ok, so, to my drawing. There was a bit of a gap where I wasn't practising much. I had planned on getting some adobe programs and learning to use them, so I could have more flexibility in what I did. To get these, though, I had to pretty much get a new computer. Then, once I got the computer, I had to actually learn to use the adobe programs. Which is taking a long time. I have the basics down for photoshop, illustrator and flash, and want to start screwing around with after effects and audition also. So, I did some doodling in photoshop, and it seems like a bit of a step backwards for now. This is because I'm still adjusting to all the new features, and I think that once I get the hang of it I'll be able to make way better stuff.
This one pretty clearly started as someone facing forward, and then halfway through I realized it looked way more like someone facing away. So I figured I would just roll with it instead of scrapping the whole thing. Also it's not a gross fat guy, it's just a nude guy. Trying to stretch out a little bit, you know? Anyway, I'm pretty sure I can sell this guy to Marvel and have a blockbuster on my hands by next summer.
You've seen me use this pose before, I'm not all that creative when it comes to that kind of thing yet. Also the head is still kind of a trainwreck. Faces and hands were where I had the biggest backslide in skills. Hopefully once I get this photoshop thing under control I can correct that. By the way, this is my actual, real-life fighting style. It's undefeatable.
Lol Niagara balls
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