For Woot’s “Catchy slogans for everyday products” derby.

“Red Shirts”

A play on the idea of red shirt’s dyeing your laundry pink and the fact that red shirts on Star Trek died way tooo much. Cough, it’s a feature!

http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=51475

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“How does the derby work? Can I buy this shirt?”

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My entry for Woot’s “How do they work?” derby.

HAS BEEN REJECTED FOR SIMILAR SHIRTS EXISTING. Sorry guys I should have run the idea through Google before working on it.

How do puppets work?

The x-ray part of this design was a complete pain. I drew it by hand and I hope I got all the bones correct. Man, anatomy is really tough, most annoyingly there’s hardly any reference or x-rays in the right positions for this type of image. Even finding bones from the palm side of the hand was a pain.

Um, I should have been drawing something else and instead I ended up making this image of Skwisgaar. Which is kind of surprising cause the Dethklok guys have been causing me no end of grief when I’ve tried to draw them before. So, I don’t know why this image worked out so well.

The guitar is really rough right now. =/

I tried to draw Nathan Explosion yesterday and ended up with incredibly bad awkward failures. Leading me back to the fact that anime/manga/cartooning, ill prepares you to draw normal people. Ugh, and I’m looking at screen caps from the show even. Fiddles.

I tend to draw characters in shapes so it’s really odd to find I don’t have any even close to how these guys are drawn. I’m just going to have to learn some new face shapes, which will be great as I need to branch out on my guys a bit more then “hot teen dude” and “David Duchovny”…

So, I drew Jem again and went looking for the guitars that the guys in Dethklok play. I’m just going to leave this one here for now. I’ll get to coloring her in a bit.

Two things I wanted to note… she’s probably not wearing a bra and I fear drawing Pickles’ drum kit. I mean putting the frets on the guitars is annoying enough but oh god the drum kit… =/

Um, yeah… Have I mentioned that I love Metalocalypse. I love that show so much. I had been gearing up to make some fanart of it but then James and me were talking about funny cross overs and this just um, sort of happened.

This Jemocalypse took me two days to finish. It’s the fastest I’ve ever drawn and colored 5 characters and 2 logos. I think it was a huge help to have the Metaloclypse image ( you can find it here on AdultSwim.com ) to reference the poses from but I’m still surprised how well the whole thing works. Well, other then the fact that Jem and the Holograms only had 4 people until they introduced the drummer girl later in the series. From left to right the characters are: Shana, Aja, Jem, Raya, and Kimber. They are standing in for Murderface, Skwisgaar, Nathan, Pickles, and Toki.

I traced the logos in Photoshop with the path tool and also drew a version of the background to put behind them. I tried to use the same lighting scheme they used in the original Metalocalypse image with some tweaking for breasts and huge hair. I had to adjust some of the clothing and poses a little here and there.

I hope you guys like it, I posted it up as a wallpaper at 1280×960 since the characters are a little small otherwise. =D