Dog Days are Over

Ok, this is my last Lockjaw post.
I was unhappy with my previous efforts. While I did settle on one I liked, it just looked like a dog.

So after a lil inspiration, I wanted to explore Lockjaw using his teleporting powers. I never thought a standing dog would be dynamic either, but slicing him in half mid teleport, adding some Kirby Krackle, I think its much more unique at displaying the character. It can never be confused with 'just a dog' now.

And if EM want to push the budget out, they could make a back separate and then he could make a nice bookend.


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Old Dog New Tricks

Edited the Lockjaw drawings during my lunchbreak, changed to a sad face and a more cheeky face since making him angry looking seemed a touch out of character, probably looked too evil.


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Barking Mad

I was sort of challenged to do some designs of what a Lockjaw special would look like for the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection. I looked at images of bulldogs, figurines, and Lockjaw artwork and just mixed them all together to get different results.

Essentially I just wanted him sitting down. He isn't exactly a dynamic character and the breed of dog (I know technically he ain't a dog) doesn't lend itself greatly to dynamic poses. I felt the more dynamic it is, the more bigger the risk of it looking weird. The main selling point in this figurine is the character, basically his unique design in the face, and whatever expression you can get out of it. I also think you can get a better scale of the character in this pose as he will sit up taller than what he would be standing.



I think I sort of failed in a way because they don't really work, the majority just look like a dog. However, I did colour in my favourite (not the churchill parody) that I think worked really well which sort of combined two pieces of artwork of Lockjaw.

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THE CLASSIC MARVEL FIGURINE COLLECTION - Owl Artwork

On the Classic Marvel Figurine Collection blog we were shown a great step by step process of creating artwork for the magazine, with the line-art posted for the inside cover. The editor mentioned he created the artwork in about 1-2 hours, so I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could create something similar in the same space of time.

So this is my attempt. It is quite rough and I didn't bother with any shading. The contents box is just a copy and paste from the actual artwork posted, but the artwork itself was around an hour to complete. I choose against textures like the editor used, as I thought the inks defined the texture of objects enough. I also just re-used an old background I had for a previous piece of artwork...so a little cheat there, but altogether for 1 hour I didn't think it looked too bad.

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Euro 2012 Predictions #2

So my predictions were alright in the end.
http://www.lawaycartoons.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/euro-2012-predictions.html

I correctly predicted 7 out of the 8 teams who qualified (didnt account for Greece pulling an upset)

I correctly predicted 58% of the results and 21% of the scores.

If I had placed a £10 bet on every prediction, I would have won £675.36, which would of been a profit of £195.36!

So obviously I am kicking myself now.

But since the quarter finals have changed from how I predicted them, I gotta make new predictions and see how it goes.

KNOCKOUT STAGE
QUARTER FINALS

Czech Republic 0-1 Portual

Germany 4-0 Greece

Spain 2-0 France

England 0-1 Italy


Still tipping Germany to win the thing.

16-bit Keyrings

Some Gameboy and Pokeball keyrings, made with hama beads.

Velthice Commission

Another commission drawing. Still got a few more to post. Phew.

Purple Vixen Commission

Forgot about some pieces or work I did. Getting lost in the football excitement. :)

Euro 2012 Predictions

Time to talk some tosh and blindly predict some results without huge knowledge of the Euro football scene.

GROUP A
Czech 6
Russia 5
Poland 4
Greece 1

RESULTS
Czech 0-2 Russia
Czech 1-0 Poland
Czech 2-0 Greece
Russia 1-1 Poland
Russia 2-2 Greece
Poland 1-0 Greece



GROUP B
Germany 9
Portugal 4 GD
Netherlands 4
Denmark 0


RESULTS
Germany 2-0 Portual
Germany 3-1 Netherlands
Germany 4-1 Denmark
Portual 2-2 Netherlands
Portual 3-0 Denmark
Netherlands 1-0 Denmark



GROUP C
Spain 9
Italy 6
Ireland 1
Croatia 1


RESULTS
Spain 2-0 Italy
Spain 1-0 Ireland
Spain 1-0 Croatia
Italy 1-0 Ireland
Italy 2-1 Croatia
Ireland 0-0 Croatia



GROUP D
france 7
england 5
Sweden 4
Ukraine 0


RESULTS
France 1-1 England
France 1-0 Sweden
France 2-0 Ukraine
England 2-2 Sweden
England 1-0 Ukraine
Sweden 1-0 Ukraine



KNOCK-OUT STAGE
QUARTER-Finals
Czech 0-1 Portugal
Spain 1-0 England
Germany 2-0 Russia
France 1-0 Italy


SEMI-FINALS
Portugal 1-2 Spain
Germany 3-1 France


FINAL
Spain 1-2 Germany


WINNERS
Germany

I wonder how much money I would make if I actually bet these. Maybe something I'll try checking if I have time.