Thursday Art Walk

 

In Which I Am Proud Of Myself :P

This week was a pretty good one, creatively! I'm setting up and prepping a bunch of future fanart sketches involving some Pokemon Original Trainers (really looking forward to introducing the McHannon Cousins and Zed with their pokepals!), wrote a bunch of notes on what to include (and contemplating fanfic - sorry Z!), and picking color palettes. I am also trying to figure out if I'll do this 100% digital, 100% traditional, or a combination of the two... I'm leaning towards "combination".

But alongside that hubbub, I was also looking for references on Twitter and YouTube.

One of my favorite folks to follow on Twitter is @Weird_Animals. They posted this hilarious photo of a Double-Crested Cormorant and I... I could not resist. At all.

Behold, my first attempt at a non-spherical bird:

"FEESH NOW"; watercolor pencil on watercolor paper; 2021

I cannot stop laughing when I look at this piece. Seriously, it's just so goofy, and I can't wait to take it out of the notebook and scan it onto Redbubble.

For now, though, it's getting a little late, and I'm enjoying an author talk with my partner (it's Richard Lange discussing Rovers, and it involves vampires).

If you guys have any questions about my fanfiction ideas, feel free to tell me! I have never actually posted a fanfic on the internet before, so I'm a wee bit nervous, tbh.

I hope y'all are having a decent week. Mine's been pretty alright, to be honest. I have been having a headache around 5pm every day, which is weird, but it's probably dehydration. It always is.

Anywho, that'll do it for me!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC

Wednesdaymania: Talkin Shop A Mania 2: Rise of the Torturer (ADULT)

 

In Which Much Silliness Was Watched

So... the Good Brothers themselves, those Gimmicky Madmen, Gallows & Anderson made another Pay Per View. It's fifteen dollars, and you can get it on FiteTV, and if you were interested, let me just say... Watch the thing. Seriously, it's worth every penny!

You just shouldn't watch it with children.

Or probably your parents.

Because it's... very NSFW.

I mean, the last PPV had a match involving a dildo graveyard, so... maybe don't watch this if you're not in the mood for something rauncy, stupid, and incredibly silly.

This show has it all!

It has a murder mystery!

It has Little People!

It has a Softcore Match!

It has Marks Working Themselves Into A Shoot!

It has Zombies!

It has a sex swing!

It has bad CG!

It has surprisingly good CG!

It has music!

It has...

It's got a lot of weird shit going on, let's be real.

This Pay Per View, much like the last one, felt like a bunch of friends getting together and making a very stupid home movie, but with one with a script and editing. And a whole lot of beer. And vehicular manslaughter. And disMemberment (that's not accidental, that capital letter...).

Do you want to see a Lucha Death Match between Chavo Guerrero Jr and Chico El Luchador? TSAM2's gotcha covered.

Do you want to see 99% naked dudes with aggressively pasty dad-bods wrestling in g-strings? TSAM2's gotcha covered.

Do you want to see a very, very mean parody of the WWE tag team Retribution involving feces? TSAM2's gotcha covered.

Do you want to see Chris Jericho reprising his Southpaw role?

TSAM2's gotcha covered.

Do you want to see the token Good Match?

uh... you've bought the wrong PPV for excellent wrestling. This is pure chaos, folks.

Come for the ridiculousness of Karate Man Ethan Page vs an actual freaking zombie, stay for a couple of beefy nutcases getting their scrotums torn off while Big Poppa Pump calls them out on their stupid booking.

In all seriousness, though, this is a great show, and despite me not particularly thrilled that they keep giving Enzo and James Ellsworth a paycheck, I'm satisfied that the 15 bucks spent went to ensuring another one of these stupid shows get made.

It's 2020. The year is a dumpster fire, and sometimes, you just want a subversive, nonsensical Idiocracy-adjacent wrestling show to lighten the mood.

Well done, you delirious weirdos.

PS - yes, Virgil's in it. Yes, there are Olive Garden breadsticks involved. Yes it's as silly as it sounds. That's the point.

Go Enjoy Something!

Wednesdaymania - Talk N Shop A Mania

 

In Which I Watched A New Pay Per View!

Once upon a time, I posted regularly on Wednesdays. Then I started writing a novel. And The Pandemic of 2020 happened. And things were... difficult, to say the least. But here we are with a special Wednesdaymnia for y'all. Very special.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if a couple of guys got drunk, booked a pay-per-view, and then actually went through with it in their own backyard? Because that's Talk-n-Shop-a-Mania. For about $15, you can watch a passel of wrestlers go bananas in someone's back yard, all narrated by Luke Gallows, Karl Anderson, and Rocky Romero (with some surprising guest stars)!

If that doesn't sound like a good time, go down a whole liter of Mountain Dew and reread it. There you go. Now you're in the proper mindset. And possibly a diabetic coma - if that's the case, sorry!

Regardless, it's absolutely worth the price of admission, especially if you are among fellow wrestling fans who like to have a good time, but not necessarily the kind of wrestling fans who really love accurate, incredible wrestling.

Because let's be real, this is a bunch of guys in a back yard. It's not Dean Malenko vs Eddie Guerrero in 95. It's more... Carny than that. Way more Carny. Like... cigarette smoke, butt rock, and funnel cake Carny.

And it's fun - you can tell everyone's there because they want to be (not just because they actually got paid). There are some really surprising cameos, there's a Nature Boy, there's a mostly naked big girl, there's a sex toy, there's really cheap fireworks, there's possibly the worst hardcore match ever committed to film (seriously, it was hilariously bad and that made it fun!), and there's a hearse.

There's a "Boner Yard" match between Sex Ferguson and Chadd 2 Badd (Gallows & Anderson) as your main event, but there are running jokes throughout the entire program that culminate in that very match (it's also the best shot portion of the PPV, go figure lol). Naked dudes, a certain couple of birdy boys (one complete with appropriate posterboard), at least one politician, and yes, Chico El Luchador makes several appearances including in one match where the outcome was so shocking that the room actually went silent for a moment.

It was a roller coaster ride in the same way the Clerks is a roller coaster ride - surprising and unlikely things happen, people who you wouldn't expect to show up do, and there are mullets (namely from Brian Pillman Jr in the Social Distancing Battle Royal and from Enzo showing up to spoil the end of the main event). The whole thing is a fuster cluck, but a delightful one, and I could watch it two or three more times and be very happy.

At a little under an hour and a half, it's a breezy watch, and you are almost guaranteed to be snickering at least once every fifteen minutes. The low price point makes it an easy sell for me, and honestly, I'm looking forward to Talk-n-Shop-a-Mania 2 now.

I'm so happy that this dumb thing exists, and I was smiling the whole time I was watching it. Honestly, the biggest reason I'm being so vague about the card is because I was laughing so hard I missed most of the important information, so if you're feeling bad and you like gimmicky silly wrestling (like the stuff you caught glimpses of in the Southpaw stuff on WWE or if you're a fan of Herb Abrams...) then this is definitely a show to watch!

Alright, that'll do it for me - I've got a lot of work to do today besides talk about this awesome, ridiculous PPV!

Go Enjoy Something!

FC

Thursday Art Walk 319

In Which I Experiment More With Paint.Net

So a few things:

1. Today is very gray and grody. Ech. Not my cuppa...
2. Coffee tastes great
3. The Monoprice For Kids tablet I have is not compatible with the software and computer I'm using, so I 'm in the market for an inexpensive tablet. I may have found one, but I'll look up more reviews...
4. I think I kinda like playing with layers and transparency in Paint.net
5. I like dinosaurs.

So without further ado, allow me to show you the fruits of my stupid labor: Dinorar

Dinorar base sketch; digital; 2020

Dinorar progress; digital; 2020

Dinorar!; digital; 2020

Yes, his toes are a bit messed up, and yes, you can still see the sketch layer, but... I'm kinda okay with that. Worst comes to it, I'll just go erase that layer lol!

But yeah, that was done 100% with a mouse! If I'm that okay with mouse only, I think I'll be able to do even better once I get a functioning drawing tablet.

What do you guys think? As far as very early digital attempts go, how is it?

Go Enjoy Something!
FC