Professor Irony

Sandwich - Horror villainesses sandwiched together after the Bride of Frankenstein takes first place at a swimsuit competition, and her competitors are really not happy.

#lumptober

#horror #Halloween #Bride #Pearl #Sadako #Ringu #AsamiYamazaki #Audition #AmandaYoung #Saw

Amanda Plummer low-key steals the show, iirc

An older @vanilleorion.bsky.social fanart sketch.
Been meaning to do more showgirl/burlesque sketches

Touc in Autumn 🍂 🐦

Cool, I needed some bjoinery doing.

Trying to use Procreate again to practice doing portraits in pen. I couldn’t tell you what changed exactly, but ever since I got my current iPad, I’ve always felt like I’m fighting against the tools in Procreate - something about the mark making just feels off to me.

A little boat on the Thames in Oxford. Just out of shot, some Americans were being harassed by the most aggressive ducks you’ve ever met.

Me: I hate product placement in movies, it cheapens the whole experience.

Also me:

Trying to draw a Louise Brooks hairdo and actually make it look good is always weirdly challenging

The comic is titled "My Favorite Fighting Game Archetypes:" Panel titled "The Grappler That Barely Fits on Screen". It's a huge, extremely muscular, bald 'pro wrestler' type character with metal bands around his arms. He is so big that he doesn't even notice his opponent, a regular sized guy in a yellow karate gi trembling in his shadow. His head is also bending the health bars above them. Panel titled "The Small Idiot With a Big Stupid Weapon". It is a girl in a predominantly pink Japanese schoolgirl uniform with with a yellow ribbon on the collar, running excitedly, a sparkle in her eyes. With both arms she is wielding a full sized heating radiator. Panel titled "The Straight Fundamentals, No Funny Business." Is it a grey-haired older man tightening the belt of his karate gi, which has yellow patches on the arms. He has a stern expression, confident in his mastery of his craft. Panel titled "The Funny Business". It is some kind of purple imp type guy in a pink-and-yellow jester outfit with teal pom poms attached to the 3 points of the hat. He has a bag with a metal spiky ball, a giant wacky wooden hammer, and a banana peel inside it. There's also a whoopee cushion that fell out. He is pulling a gun out of it.

Harumi Mint (2024) 🍃🐢

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

There’s a group of old boys who sit out at the university playing cards every week, regular as clockwork. With so much focus on the isolation and loneliness older people can face these days, I find this kinda wholesome. I think one of them did have a table-flip moment this week though…

I think, if you haven’t drawn for a while, it always comes as a relief to go back to it and realise you haven’t actually forgotten how to do it.

Cute whale shark 🐋🦈

Work in progress

Hime Lizard 🔷🦎

Resting on the hills ⛰️🌥️

Really like her design a lot!
彼女のデザインはとても気に入っている！🙇

You know, I hadn’t considered it. iirc, the catalogue was in German, so… Claudia, I think.

A cyberpunk-style female detective, leaping to the side while drawing a futuristic pistol from her overcoat.

Comparison of the previous image with the catalogue model that inspired it

Me: Oh hey, that model in this old catalogue is doing accidental Blade Runner cosplay, that’s kinda fun
Also me, months later:

Violet Rescue 🟪

Happy Mario day! ✨⭐🍄 #mar10day

Watercolour style digital painting of a young woman reaching her right arm behind her head.

Trying Procreate again. I can’t do lineart in it to save myself, but I like the painting brushes more than the ones in CSP.

Concept drawing of a muscular female character with grey hair and glasses, wearing a blue bikini.

This was originally an unused sketch from a game project I worked on a few years ago, but I always thought it was too good for the bin. Need to give her a proper costume though.

Still of actor Jo Shishido in Seijun Suzuki’s film Branded to Kill, playing an assassin who is aroused by the smell of cooking rice

Me, cooking rice: Mmm, that smells good
Jo Shishido:

Process

Study of Eddie Constantine as Agent Lemmy Caution in Alphaville (1965)

Study of Louise Brooks, after a photo by Eugene Robert Richee; 1928

Also process vidya.