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Undertale Handplates Fan Comic: He Touched The Butt

30/11/2017

Ah, that moment when you realize late Wednesday night that you forgot to schedule a blog post for Tuesday, and end up publishing it on Thursday instead. Sorry about that!

Anywho...

Out of all the many Undertale AUs out there, Zarla's Handplates is currently my favorite. It's deep, emotional and well-drawn, has great dialogue, and really makes the reader think about the different moral viewpoints the characters present. (Fair warning: If you're going to read it, prepare for pain, anger, and a potent urge to decapitate a fictional skeleton.)

It also has some goofy side comics, like the one where Gaster found a sexually explicit fanfiction Alphys had written, involving herself, him, and several other monsters.

This sparked a discussion about the logistics of Alphys dropping and possibly reattaching her tail, which resulted in me speculating about this interaction, which resulted in this picture.

Such a serious and poignant AU, and my first (but probably not last) fan art for it is a goofy one-panel about Alphys using a Finding Nemo reference while freaking out about Gaster (almost) touching her butt.

As a bonus for those of you who are familiar with this AU: Alphys is hiding in the same closet Gaster locked her in in this joke comic.

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Undertale Fan Comic: How to Get People to Open Up

18/7/2017

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I was having a conversation with a fellow artist about how Papyrus probably knows more than people give him credit for, and this came to mind.

Warning: it contains spoilers for the genocide route in Undertale.

Both Sans and Asgore spill their guts either during or after combat - in fact, that’s the ONLY time when Sans really opens up - so even though Papyrus’ advice sounds weird, it’s actually oddly sound.

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Two New Undertale Art Pieces and a Pencil Sketch

2/6/2017

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Well, someone's been a busy artist! It seems like art has kind of taken over my blog lately, and now I'm going to contribute to the infestation with three new pieces. :)

This first one was drawn during a computer crash, while I was waiting for my poor laptop to recover from a devastating collision with Alice: Madness Returns. Turns out, you're not supposed to have any other programs running when you start up the game - at least, not on my computer.

But at least I got a nice picture out of it.

I thought about drawing the hood and shoulders, but I decided I liked it better with the hood just framing her face instead of competing with it.

The next piece is a quick, goofy cross between Undertale fan art and me pointing out the problem with a musician's quote.

Mr. Marley, I'm afraid Blooky and I have to disagree with you. And I think a lot of headphone users will side with us on this one.

The third piece has some spoilers for Undertale, so proceed with caution.

I loved Undyne's story about how she met Asgore. Toby Fox did a great job of establishing the king's character, both his power and his gentle nature, long before the protagonist ever meets him.

This is less detailed than a lot of my other drawings; it's more of a quick impulse sketch that I knocked off in under an hour than a major project that I wanted to spend a lot of time on, but I liked this scene and I felt like drawing a happy Asgore. So here you go.

In this picture, he's wearing a casual training uniform instead of his usual armor and robes, because he doesn't want young Undyne to scuff up his robe or break her knuckles on his armor. You can tell from his hair that the little warrior is getting better at what she does, haha.

That's all the new artwork for now, but there will be more to come in the near future.

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Undertale Humor: No One Will Believe You

16/5/2017

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if a magic skeleton got pulled over by the police?

Probably not, but who cares. :P

Well, if you don't mind spoilers for Undertale's True Ending, now you can find out.

Once the monsters in Undertale reached the surface, I imagine there was a period in which not everyone knew that they existed or what they could do. The police probably got a lot of calls about weird but benign magical events happening in once-mundane neighbourhoods.

I could see Sans taking advantage of the situation to confuse, alarm, and generally weird out a lot of people.

The look on this poor officer's face was totally worth the speeding ticket - assuming Sans didn't just teleport away while he was writing the ticket, leaving the human wondering if the whole encounter was just a weird hallucination.

Sans: making blue lives weirder since 201X.

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Undertale Fan Art: Sans the EdgeJester

25/4/2017

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As soon as my sister told me about that Tumblr post, I knew this picture had to become a thing that existed. I mean, the rank of EdgeJester captures the two sides of Sans' personality so perfectly.

I decided to incorporate all the colors of his canonical sprite and (maybe?) canonical action figure into the picture, and to split them up according to the context in which they appear.

The dull blue, grey, and pastel pink of his hoodie and slippers appear on one side, while the yellow and more vivid blue of his glowing eye appear on the other, along with the purple that your health bar turns when afflicted by his Karmic Retribution. Casual jester on one side, edge on the other.

And of course, there are black and white, partly because those are the colors of his body, and partly to contrast all those more vivid colors and keep them from getting too excessively gaudy.

I thought about shading it, but I decided that I wanted to keep the colors true to their original shades, and adding light and shadow would distort that a bit. But I'll probably use the design for a shaded wallpaper at some point in the nonspecific future.

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Happy Easter! Have Some Farscape Comedy Art

16/4/2017

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I can't argue with that. We humans do have a weird way of distorting even the most important holidays into entertaining but unrecognizable shapes.

I originally planned to make the egg on which Harvey is standing a bit more like a traditional Easter egg, but then I decided I wanted to draw Moya, and then Moya turned out better than Harvey did and totally outshone the focal point of the picture, and I just kind of threw my hands up and said "Oh well; if Moya wants to turn out fabulous, she can go ahead and do that."

On another note, since I'm posting this a couple days early, I have good news and bad news.

The bad news is, there will be no blog post on Tuesday.

The good news is, you got to see this a couple days early, and on the appropriate distorted holiday.

I hope you enjoy the picture, and have a wonderful Easter!

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Undertale Fan Art: Stop Petting the Enemy!

28/3/2017

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Another Undertale pacifist humor piece for your enjoyment. :)

Warning: contains Undertale spoilers!

For those who don't have the context for this:

In Undertale, if you befriend Undyne and try to make spaghetti sauce with her, you have the option to be either strong or wimpy when pounding the vegetables. Since Undyne tells you to envision the vegetables as your greatest enemy, it's pretty obvious what the combat-loving fish wants you to do.

If you ignore her wishes and choose the "wimpy" option, then instead of pounding the vegetables, you pet them affectionately, at which point Undyne gets upset and tells you to "stop petting the enemy!"

The funny thing about that is, one of her combat units consists entirely of dogs, and you can literally pet your way past all of them.

Granted, some of them do require additional actions before they'll be placated, but the fact remains that petting the enemy is a perfectly valid combat tactic in the world of Undertale.

I don't think Undyne would appreciate being reminded of this.

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Farscape Meets Five Nights at Freddy's: A Farscape Music Video Set to "Survive the Night"

7/3/2017

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After a long period of YouTube silence, I finally published another Farscape music video!

John Crichton, meet the Uncharted Territories. Uncharted Territories, try not to kill John.

Farscape visuals, meet Five Nights at Freddy's music. Now kiss.

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My Farscape Picture Gallery is Now On My Site!

22/11/2016

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Do you like Farscape, humor and photo editing? Then I think you'll enjoy a recent addition to my site: a Farscape picture gallery.

Back when I was more active in the Farscape community, I posted a lot of pictures - some captioned, some edited, some both.

Recently, I thought, Why should those pictures disappear into the depths of Facebook and get lost? Why not feature them where people can easily find and enjoy them?

So I dug them out of their scattered, buried homes in my image folders, herded them together, and put them on a page, along with comments and notes about their creation.

If you want to see the whole gallery, click the button below to check it out!

Visit my Farscape picture gallery

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5 Embarrassing Mistakes NOT to Have Your Characters Make

15/11/2016

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Don't you love that moment when a supposedly smart character does something so dangerously stupid that you feel compelled to facepalm, headdesk, and roll your eyes at the same time?

...Yeah. Me neither.

I recently wrote a guest blog post about 5 stupid mistakes characters frequently make, why writers have them make those mistakes, and what to do instead.

If you're a writer who wants to avoid these embarrassing errors, or a reader who wants to laugh and say "I know, right?", click the button below to check out the article.

Click here to read the article

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