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I’m a big fan of the original Dead Rising game. So much so that I think I was a big part in helping a friend of mine melt his Xbox360 back when the earlier models couldn’t handle all the processing due to some thermal paste problem. So I’m really excited to play the sequal which is coming out in a few days. Hopefully the sequel doesn’t melt my Xbox since I heard it’s going to use even more power. Nonetheless I was thinking about it and for some reason I came up with this idea in my head. How cool would it be to play a Dead Rising game in a comic convention setting? It could be an Xbox live add-on or something. Basically the virus pops up inside a convention center and they quarantine the entire building. You have 24 hours before they most likely nuke the place. All the props and costumes would be hilarious and you could make an upgrade system by finding comics, sort of like finding the books in the first game. You have to dig through back issue bins to complete series and gain power ups. Well, it probably won’t happen but I just thought it would be pretty sweet. Oh yeah and I did a quick sketch to get the idea across, enjoy!
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Thanks to KennyP for the suggestion. The character for “C” is Clank from Ratchet and Clank. Truth be told I’ve never actually played any of the games, but judging from the screen shots I used for reference it looks like it could be fun. I don’t believe I’ll ever find out since I have an Xbox 360 and I’m pretty sure this is a PlayStation series.. oh well. Since I know pretty much nothing about the character it was fun to just play around and change it up a bit. Hopefully I didn’t go too far.. or maybe I didn’t go far enough? Anyways it’s just a sketch so it’s time to find something to sketch for “D”. For some reason the first thing that comes to mind is Dark Wing Duck, but just as before I’m open to suggestions. It’s fun to draw things I normally wouldn’t think of myself.
Alright well after all the crazy things going on it’s time to get back to work. So I decided to do a sketch to get myself warmed up. I asked my roommates what character I should draw for “B” and all of them said Batman. Nothing against Batman but the purpose of this sketch blog is to try and draw things I’ve never drawn before and I’ve drawn Batman quite a bit (sorry DJ). These drawings are also helping me get familiar with Manga Studio Ex, which I’m starting to favor over Photo Shop as far as drawing with a tablet. Any suggestions for “C” anyone?
I was thinking about how to go about deciding what to sketch and what not and came up with a simple system for the time being. Basically for the first wave I’m going to just run through the alphabet and do a random character for each letter. So for “A” here’s a long time favorite of mine Animal! I’ve thought about what to do for “B” but I’m open to suggestions for any of the other letters. Should be fun plus I’ll learn how to draw a bunch of new stuff, which is never a bad thing.
I brought my Moleskine with me to work today and while I was bored I was flipping through it and figured I might as well share some of this stuff. Ant Guy’s going to be a randomly weekly update and I figured a sketch blog would be a good way to post at least something between those. So here’s the first picture in the book, actually the first picture is an inkblot but I was just playing around. This is a self portrait of myself during this last winter. I don’t have a car and have to walk to work so it seemed like a good time to grow a beard. The beard is now gone and replaced with the normal eternal stubble.
