the ramble dump

I've been clearing out my room ready to head off to Uni. These sort of diggings always unearth some interesting, forgotten old stuff, although having done this before and stored many things away for safekeeping in a myriad collection of files and folders already, there wasn't really much left to find this time around. But I did find this thing, which I guess is a sort of sequel to this:



Kind of appropriate, considering I just fired up the old PlayStation to play Tekken 3.

Also, this:



I've been singing it. I think I remember it now.

Labels: fat men in tweed, sketches and doodles, tekken, videogames

# posted by Chris @ 4:18 PM 0 comments

Coming soon to a spaceretailer near you: the Talking Organza Nousu™ Doll!



The Talking Organza Nousu™ Doll is capable of many of your favourite Organza Nousu™ phrases, including such classics as this, this, this and this!

This amazing toy is totally not the product of an instant messaging conversation we had just now!

Labels: sketches and doodles, starcustard

# posted by Chris @ 11:07 PM 2 comments

I just found this. I felt compelled to post it.

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Labels: city of anarchy, sketches and doodles

# posted by Chris @ 8:45 PM 0 comments

I did this last month. I would have posted it earlier, but I was planning on adding a background. Then I realised that I'm way too lazy for that. I was also too lazy to clean the final one up a bit before posting it.

Done with 2B and HB pencils (whichever was nearest at the time), and then pink for the costume, green for the boots, metallic red for the shadows and metallic green for the weird lighting that apparently has no effect on the surrounding area. It was originally intended to be for a promotional FMIT sort of thing, which is why I played around with the idea of green lighting. I might try that again, but with whoever I draw next time adopting a more interesting pose.

Labels: sketches and doodles, the aberration

# posted by Chris @ 5:44 PM 0 comments

Lots of good stuff for you today (I was intending to get this posted on Friday, but... well, it's still Friday in Official Chris Time).

To start of with...




...some Starcustard concept art of Hepthazard, the spacestation. It is very, very big.

Amelia has also sent me some nice ideas for the Fat Man site design. We've discussed a few things and have come up with some neat stuff that will hopefully be possible, but we don't know yet.

Secondly, the first two chapters of City of Anarchy, with Chapter 2 being brand-spanking new. I know it's a little on the short side, but it's been a big last-minute rush to get everything finished for this update. I meant to get some of it done earlier on in the week, but after I've finished all my schoolwork, I'm always too tired to do anything else.

Now... this next thing is what this update is really all about. I've talked about it so very much, and now it's finally time for you to actually read the first bit of it.

I present to you... the NEW... The Aberration Chapter One: The Tramp.

All improved and refreshed. :) I think the old Kommingle version is still up if you feel like comparing the two.

DeviantArt will be where I post any updates of my independant projects until the site is launched.

And to finish off this rather spectacular update (by my standards, at least)... an announcement.

I will be teaming up with Holly Heuser, Michael Achtzehn, Sam Draxler and Amelia 'Aliens' Chesley to bring you the ambiguously named... Project CAM. All that remains to be said is: watch this space.

Labels: city of anarchy, project cam, sketches and doodles, starcustard, the aberration

# posted by Chris @ 12:29 AM 3 comments

This was in the back of my German exercise book.



That was done just before the exams, at the peak time of exam stress. I think it would make a great animé series. The two action heroines have to fight the forces of evil with the added complication of pregnancy. One's serious and moody, while the other is chirpy and ditsy. The unlikely pair find themselves stuck together with this one thing in common. Drama and comedy ensue.

On a sidenote, Starcustard Chapter 4 is finally finished. It just needs to be soundtracked and polished up.

Labels: sketches and doodles, starcustard

# posted by Chris @ 10:15 PM 1 comments

An alien that'll be appearing in Starcustard in the near future.

His right arm is supposed to look oddly misplaced like that. The idea is that he can hook arms with different functions to the metallic belt around his chest, and these arms are not fixed in any set position on it; they can slide along it freely, so he can have them attacking someone directly behind him quite easily. The arms he's not using are attached to an easily-accessible belt around his belly.

All the wires going into the back of his head and neck are so he can control the arms as if they were a real part of his body.

From left to right, the arm functions on this particular drawing are supposed to be as follows: regular 'grabhand', some kind of firearm, a torch and a knife.

This is just the simple mechanics of the thing. The proper description of the creature itself will be in the actual story, whenever it gets written. This isn't finalised or anything, but it's likely that the one we eventually used will be very similar to this one.

Labels: pirates, sketches and doodles, starcustard

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