Daily Grind

Oh and by the way here is the Argent Tournament video I made recently for people interested in some of the insane Junk I'd been doing all month:

Yet more Anthro Junk

Hey gang, its been a while, kinda took a month or so off from art and comissions while I cracked on with my new Job, plus there was the whole Warcraft gearing obsession I was going through. So yeah, heres a few pieces Ive been working on in that interlude to whet your appetite for new and better art.



This was initially created to be a portrait pic on Second Life, but I liked it so much I tweaked it and made a larger version. Devillo's hair is a little bit wonky but this was before the re-design featured in the image below:



I have to give MASSIVE props to Stoney for being the catalyst for this re-design. Her work on the portrait pic a few month back really energised me and got me looking at Dev in a new way. You lady are epic awesome!



So, stay tuned for more art soon, Including long time coming commissions, more shots of the WIP Comic and who knows, maybe a podcast or two.........

Penis?

Yeeeeah Im really behind with my artwork.
As in INSANELY behind. And Why? Have I been working hard in my new Job, have I been out and about engaging in all manner of important time consuming affairs.
Well, if you count gearing up my Tank/DPS Deathknight Peacebloom, then Yes.

Ok, Im a freaking moron and need to manage my time better. But Hey, I finally got that Darn Helm Ive been after for AGES! Now I need the rest of that darn gear... but for now best to focus on my actual commission work.

Although seriously, I think Peachy will make a great Figureprint:


Do Want.

So yes, I have been SERIOUSLY behind because not only is Warcraft sucking my soul out my ass, but That Guy With the Glasses is also too freaking addicitve. The Nostalgia Critic, Linkara, Spoony, Angry Joe. All these dudes are just too freaking watchable. I may never be productive ever again!

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/

Truly, they rock

And lastly, THE CALENDERS ARE AWESOME! WHY HAVE YOU NOT BOUGHT YOURS YET!?
Oh yeah, because of the insane price. Yeah, point taken. I spent £100 trying to order just 10, So methinks next year I will be using a different service. They look imba though.

Superb Halloween!

Ok so Im pretty behind with updates, my apologies. Ive just been super busy with commissions, Halloween related goodies and also finally being employed!
Shock Horror.

So first of all artwork. Here is a few of the pieces Ive been working on recently.



First of all I had wanted to doodle this little thing ever since playing ODST at Jenny and Dave's. While the flashbacks with the 'interesting' characters are all well and good, the so called star of the game is the rookie, a guy who shuffles round a Warzone looking at random objects he picks up off the floor and triggering a flashback to a more interesting scene. So yeah, I'd love to see what Flashback occurs from this lil beauty!



This was a commission for the Rainbow Tiger, a Furry Club on Second Life. Yes, I am now on Second Life, and yes I socialise with teh Furries! Oh Noes! But yeah, Second life is a very buggy thing for me, textures and models take ages to render and frankly for me its just a stylish colourful chatroom with music and animation. And superb BDSM dungeons.

What? Im 25 and like sex, deal with it.



Work is also continuing on my own comic/graphic novel/waste of time. The character sheets are coming along ok, and the expression memes on D.A. and F.A. have really helped me figure out how to tweak and refine the character designs.



Yeah, Im thinking of going with black and white for this lot. I have tried colour but as yet Im still not too happy with the tone the pages have. Colouring a comic is hard work people.





Also during the season I was permanently glued to World of Warcraft in an effort to make my Death Night the lord of Halloween with the title, The Hallowed! The events and different things you had to do for the season were really something, and I honestly think Hallows End is the best of the seasonal Holidays in gme. Its also about 10% of the reason I stick with the game. Love love love it! Although sadly the Headless Horseman did not drop his lovely mount for me. Ah well. Next year my friend, Next Year!!!!



Finally on Halloween itself I was lucky enough to watch Saw 6 with the lovely ladies Bexa and Jenny. Good times! Im planning on doing a video review after being seriously inspired by folk like The Nostalgia Critic, Linkara and Spoony. Still, the video would be lame as hell, and alot of work. But hey, I love me some Saw. Watch the movie, its actually trying to be noob friendly with tons of re-caps and highlights of the major plotpoints.



And lastly yes, I am now employed. Still its only part time and the way the system works is that I will be able to still draw a small amount of benefits as well as the wages I earn, so all in all Im pretty pleased with the result. The travel route is a lil... blearg. Reminds me of the cheap and crappy buses I had to get back when I was in school, and yes I did get travel sick, Yayyyy. So that was October there and gone. Now lets us see what awaits us all in November!

Lastly as always, follow me on Twitter at @Devillo

Ha ha ha FAIL...

Ok, so it turns out that Tuskar has a Tail, and I utterly forgot to draw it on him.
Mooooron!



So yeah... boobs?

Feels Very Flood-ish

Just working on the colours for a Commission and the colour scheme I ended up using has really turned out Flood-ish to me. And for those of you who dont know, the Flood is basically a parasitic Alien type thingie. So its all Horror in space kinda vibe.

Heres the lineart:


And heres the current colour scheme:

My Dog Died

So yeah, was woken at 5 to discover my Dog of 11+ ish years has died. We buried him out in the garden, and Thats pretty much it. Not the best of days really. Kinda having family time whatever. Will get more work done on all my commissions etc tomorrow, I just dont have the drive, and Im sorry about that.

And off on a tangent... my internet is causing my VERY Short Temper to snap.

The Fastest Thing Alive

Ok, I have to confess I loved this show as a kid, and its nice to see that I wasnt the only one who actually saw something decent in a show based on a Sega platforming game.



But dont think that means Im going to mention any of the OTHER Sonic shows that have been made. Ever.

Just joking...

BTW, while I think on Ive also been working on a Few Batman related images recently. None of these are finished, but my Twitter Followers have been pretty helpful in offering feedback etc.







Oh, and go play Arkham Asylum. Now!

Calender for 2010

Ok, so clearly I am having a few Brainfarts, because I forgot to post about the calender being up and running. Ok yes I posted it on the main website, but I also know that alot of folk just dont bother heading over there. Which is fine, I understand, but to think I didnt actually post the darn thing here where it is NEEDED!?

Epic Fail.



So yeah, 2010 Calender, go buy it now.
Buy Me!

Final Art

Ok, first of all, here is the Birthday gift I made for free for the Turpster, most entertaining dude on the Wow Insider Podcast, as well as the only dude I know of who can play a Gnome Warrior and get away with it.





And heres the finished version of Krumpets own Commission.





Sorry for the lack of posting etc gang, just been busy with all manner of crap, will return to a more dynamic schedule soon.

Krumpet Inks

LOL!!!!
I posted this in the Digital Picnic Blogby mistake... FAIL!

Just a quick update to show how Krumpets pic is currently looking. While I do love all the greys and subtle tones of the Photoshop stage, this uber sharp vector lineart is a lil bit... I dunno. Opinions?



Going to record the colour work very soon on Facebook Free my Ustream show.

Krumpet Sketch

Just a lil update on my commission for a fellow Guildie from World of Warcrack.





And the full recordings from the Ustream show are here and here.

Sunny Side

So, back after 2 weeks of sun, sea and sand.
Will have a few decent photo's and a nice long winded post soon, but Im currently trying to pull my crap together for a job review tomorrow.

Deadgnomes

Commission art for a Fellow Guildie from Rangers of the North. This is Deadgnomes, Blood Elf Paladin and the guy who's been helping my warrior through Blades Edge recently.



Making of Video:

There aint no Pool here!

lol, old video, but fun video.

YOU LIED TO US JOHNSON!!!!!!!!

Ok, and I cant stick the damn video directly into this journal because Ustream uses HTML, and blogger doesnt like me dumping html in here.

The Hot-tub is a Lie!!!!

But yeah, the Instance, the World of Warcraft Podcast so you dont Have to.

Cariadd Portrait

Finished Cariadd's pic. Yes there is no colour, yes I am a cheap son of a bitch.
Rangers of the North forever!

PIGGY!!!!!!!

The finished Pig prints I did for a family member.

It should be Illegal!!!!

Was busy working on some gift art last night for Ajahli and her epic art book coming soon!!!! Check out the making of video here.

Cariadd Portrait WIP

Just an update on another WIP image Im working on. This is a gift for Cariadd/Shyflower, the Guild Creator for Rangers of the North.
Currently enjoying the chunky sharp lines.



Making of video here and here.

Its Just Some Random Guy

Dude, I love this guy. His video's always give me a chuckle and an uplifting beat to my day, and here's a lil bit I slapped together from his funniest video to date:



Watch his video's, I command you!!!!

Facebook Free

Hey kids! No Facebook Free broadcast today, but I do have last nights recording for you to peruse. This is the current state of the artwork:



Head over to the Facebook Free page tomorrow night and call in live with Skype! Devillotheworm is the name to call. All questions answered! Or ignored, one or the other.

Facebook Free - Regular shows Daily!

Well, its official, right up until I get bored or my Guild beat me up! Facebook Free, the Narcissistic self deprecating live Ustream show featuring non-other than DENNIS himself is now broadcasting every night from say 8.00 till 10.00 GMT. The new logo and layout was set up last night, and the making of can be seen right here!

Karazhan - The Master's Key

Hello there. Not posted for a while, been to busy pulling my hair out and slowly going insane. Not because of the Economic depression, or the fact that the Job market is FUBAR, oh lord no. Ive bee going banana's because every single night is Epic Fail night. Thats right, in order to tick of the list for every single dungeon in the game, my group of friends and I have been running all over Azeroth, Steamrolling at level 80 over the far lower level 60 and 70 end game instances and raids. Of course, there is a minor issue with this deceptively simple task. All of us are geared up for heroics and regular 80 raids, no worries. What the problem is however is that the Insane amount of convoluted petty run-around BS you have to do in order to even enter the instances.



For today's example, I shall discus one of the biggest culprits of this crime, Karazhan. Now, Karazhan was the Home of Medivh, the Last Guardian. For those of you who didnt play any of the original Warcraft games, he's the dude who instead of guarding the Dark Portal, opened it and summoned the first Horde to Azeroth. Ok, he was possessed by Sargeras the Titan megalomaniac and creator of the Burning legion at the time, but yep, he's considered one of the most powerful folk in Lore.



Now, Karazhan is also a level 70 10 man Raid, and was originally part of the End game for the Burning Crusade, hence the Demons etc and all the 69-72 mobs wandering around. Before entering this Raid, players must first grab hold of the Masters Key, in order to get inside. Which is all very well and fair enough. Now, in order to get the key you must go through a variety of quests, speaking to various Mages at the ruins of Dalaran, Medivh's old student in Shattrath etc. He then tells you that Medivh gave him the key, and he ended up splitting it into 3 pieces, hiding it around the world. Now, for some malicious reason he hid the key fragments in different level 70 dungeons in Outland, so players must head to the Steam Vault, The Shadow Labyrinth and also to part of the Draenei's captured ship's prison wing. Now, the first 2 are simple to pick up especially for some swarthy purple geared 80's, just walk through and smash. But as for The Arcatraz.... not so easy. Turns out the Prison has a barrier, and you need to get the key in order to gain access. And in order to get the key you need to go through a quest chain.... Hmnnnn.



This is where what seemed to be a simple task suddenly becomes a little less simple, and a little more irritating. Please bear in mind as well that we are all doing this from 10.30 onwards every night, due to conflicting timetables etc, and this is the only way we can play together. So, after realising we are going to have to go through yet another INSANE long quest chain, we just decided to screw it and call for a Rouge. Luckily we have one with a good skill level and he lets us in the dungeon, who's squishy level 70's are no match for a bunch of angry hate Fuelled Horde, and we nuke the place. So, we end up getting all 3 key fragments, we complete a few obscure dungeons and everyone's happy, right?

Oh so very wrong.



Now Medivh's former tea boy says after grabbing the key and re-forging it, its a useless piece of metal. Sure it fits the lock, but without Medivh's blessing it wont open the door. So, the only available course of action is to go back in time and ask the guy to bless the key for us. Hmnn..... The Caverns of time for the uninitiated is a kind of Alice in Wonderland place hidden deep underground, where different area's of Azeroth's history are reachable, and nefarious forces keep trying to re-write history. One of these key events is the opening of the Dark Portal and the summoning of the horde, and this is where we can chat to Medivh face to face. There is but one problem... we cannot gain access to this event. The Guardian's of the Cavern, the Bronze Dragons have need of our help first want us to stop their enemy's from preventing Thrall, leader of the new Horde, from escaping Durnholde keep sometime after Warcraft 2, and make sure history remains on track. Considering the fact that the Tauren would probably be wiped out by centaur and the Horde would not exist without him, we thought it would be wise to go along with the Dragons wishes. Plus theyre Dragons. Big, scaly, and while polite they can breath fire. And eat you.



So we go back in time, rescue Thrall, beat the shit out of evil Dragons and everyone's happy. Yay! Oh wait, some of us didnt do the quest properly and now we have to do the whole thing again, fuuuck. Ok, round 2 and Thrall escapes once more. Wait what was that, now your quest is bugged? you didnt pick up the object you needed, right fine we do it AGAIN!!!! Its just as well Thrall and his Human girlfriend keep getting their memories erased as theyd probably be as sick of us as we are of them by the time this damn thing was done with. Anyway, we return to the present, or limbo or whatever semi-hell we've now found ourself in and are now told that yes, you can go chat to Medivh. In fact, the other dragons have gone back in time and are trying to kill him so the first Horde dont arrive on the planet and start slaughtering all the babies and townsfolk of Stormwind. While Im kind of ambivalent to the slaughter of the Alliance, Im still not that big a fan of the First Horde, the Orcs were after all being poked around by Demons after all, but as long as we can get this damn key blessed its all well and good.

So we head into this stinking swampy bog that looks suspiciously like the Swamp of sorrows, except its the dark portal, despite not being the smae model or even looking anything like the one you go through in order to get to Outland. But yeah, whatever, so we head in and bash the living daylights out of anything stupid enough to come near Medivh as he performs his summoning etc. So we win, yay the Dark Horde rush out of the portal to begin their campaign of blood and terror, and we can get Medivh to let us into his house, right? Well wrong, first of all my own quest didnt take for whatever stupid reason, probably the fact I didnt pay attention so I had to re-do the damn dungeon again. But anyway, instead of blessing the Key Medihv thinks, oh what a nice key, I have one just like it and pockets it for himself. Now in a fury we storm back to Shattrath and consult his ex-bitch assistant, and it turns out he had the damn thing in his pocket the whole time. Freaking obnoxious bastard. "Oh sorry, I couldn't tell you I had it, because then you would never have been able to grab it, give the pieces to my master who then gave it to me and BLEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH"



So, whatever, We have the fucking key. Wonderful, epic, superb. Now we can go and enter an now totally redundant raid just to tick it off our list and also gear up lowbies with items that will end up being worthless in 5 levels time. Oh well done us.

Of course, while writing this It occurs to me in Hind-sight that we all made one very important omission when it came to thinking this whole sordid affair through. We went through all this B.S. just to get a key. We did all this arbitrary running around just so we had the permission to enter an otherwise locked place. So if we had to do all that crazy shit to get in... what the hell are we supposed to do inside Karazhan?

Lets just say I'm still shaking in rage and hatred.
See ya tomorrow!

Witches and Bats

Ok, finished the Witch print, and while its better than it first looked, Im still not all that pleased with the way it looks.
You have the making of here and here.
After finishing off the Witch print I decided to take a break and work on my Batman Parody for a bit. The 2 podcasts in the video's are the official Bungie Studio's Podcast and The Instance, the World of Warcraft Podcast so you dont have to!

You can buy this print here.

The Fall of Blackrock Depths

FINALLY!!!!!! It took us until 1.30 in the morning and 2 Deathknights, but we finally figured out that annoying cluster-fuck of a Dungeon and celebrated by slaughtering Every Single NPC character and creature in the instance.
None were spared, NONE!!!!!!

Now I just need to level my non 80 characters past this damn dungeon in future. At least now I have an idea about where to go and what to do. But man alive Blizzard, talk about a convoluted and hard to figure out dungeon! It was more involving and taxing than some raids Ive been on. Plus the poor squishy Druid Healer kept getting nuked, so she left before we finished, poor Tauren.

But, for now I bask in the glow of slaughter, and drink deeply from the skull of my enemy. Mnnn, tangy.

Tia TNT Wall Print

Here we are, yet another Wall print created using the magic of Ustream. You can follow the entire creation of this piece in 2 videos:
Part 1
Part 2

You can also buy the print here.

Anna from Wormwood

Yet another Wall Print. You can watch the making of Video here: here.

And you can buy the print here.

More Wall Prints

Yet another new image created via the magic of Ustream: Making Of
Grab the print version here: http://www.deviantart.com/print/7043934/?utm_source=deviantart&utm_medium=deviationpage&utm_campaign=buyprintbottom

Wall Print

Did some Ustreaming this morning and came up with this.
You can grab this here.

Still working on integrating my separate styles. Opinions?



Joker owned by DC comics blah blah blah.

Transformers 2 review

Ok, first of all expect to cringe if you see this movie in public. This is one of those films where there is something for EVERYONE, from the action fan, to the comedian, to the brain damaged kid who soils themselves.

Ok, was that too harsh? yes it was.



Transformers 2 does its best to appeal to as MANY different people as possible. You have Meagan Fox sliding her tight nubile body across curved gleaming bits of chrome and alloy, who apart from cleaning up after every male character in the movie also picks up her own pet transformer.



Which I actually liked. Wheels or wheelie was one of the characters I actually liked, the me he was on the right side of the crazy/stupid line.



There's the whole stuff about 'baby go's to college' which I did not give a flying crap about. We get Sam's mother weeping her head off at finding his lil baby booties, buying some Hash brownies from some 'wacky students' outside and screaming to the world about hearing her son loose his cherry. For fucks sake guys, what kind of movie are you trying to make here? Comedy is fine, but its like you have 2 or 3 films tied together here, and believe me it felt like it. By the time we left the cinema all the lights were being shut down and we were worried we would be locked in. The parents are good actors, and yes, they are good comedians. But this movie just doesn't seem like the appropriate place for this kind of thing. And Mojo humps a bulldog. ugh.

Well, I will say this much, there's a ton of new Transformers here, everyone's backstory is fleshed out more, there's the epic Decepticon base, the motivation behind their rampage of destruction (hatchlings slowly dying due to lack of energon etc) ad the Fallen himself. I've always preferred the Decepticons to the Autobots, and my all time fave of those guys is Starscream. Starscream is the man, love love love that guy. After resurrecting a slightly ungrateful Megatron the two of them go through this great bitch fight throughout the movie, Megatron beating the crap out of him, and Starscream always keeping one foot out of the ring when fighting an enemy.

The fallen himself was pretty good too. Nice to see more of the Decepticon history and the chain of command. I also liked the whole N.E.S.T. thing with the Autobots and the government, despite the fact that Optimus and the rest of the 'good guys' don't seem to take that many prisoners. In fact, they're just about as bloodthirsty as the Decepticons when it comes to killing their own race, hmnnnn.



There's plenty of new Cybertronian dudes in this movie, some epic like the Decepticon doctor Scalpel, some appalling like the Autobot twins, who are the Jar Jar of this movie. Remember when I said you would cringe? you will, believe me. The female bike Arcee wasnt too bad either, although I thought it was 3 sisters or something, nope, 1 transformer controlling 3 seperate parts. Interesting.



The Constructicons deserve a special mention as being uber in their epicness. Yes that was a real sentence. Devastator at the end is just.... I freaking want his babies right now, and Demolisher provided an epic opening battle. Also I liked how Jetfire was portrayed as a Transformer so old he was part of the original civil war, and as such was a Decepticon who had decided screw this and joined the Autobots. And yes, even the Farting parachute bit made me smirk. Plus we also have Pretenders, seekers, Insecticons and all manner of sub groups of the Cybertronian race.



Plus, mild spoiler warning, Transformer heaven. Which is ok, it fits with the lore and the story, so whatever works. One more thing, please ditch the government dude who causes problems for people by acting a dick. Its been done, alot. Although the parachute scene with him and Lennox was pretty freaking funny.

So, long story short, go watch the movie with your friends, have fun, and don't worry about the bad parts, because there's plenty of good bits to make up for it. And there's also plenty of bits where Sam and the humans are on screen, in which case feel free to head to the toilet. Which you will need considering the epic length of this movie.

Oh, and testicle jokes. Thanks, but no thanks.

Video test

Just testing the capability of blogger displaying video's. Heres a few of my current fave vids atm.



Bits from the live action Deathnote movie. Looking epic.





Did you not hear about the word?



So, does Cleaveland REALLY need his own show?



This was what Seth McFarland was working on with HB before moving on and making Family Guy.



Hilarious Silent Hill parody.



World of Warcrack.

Ok, thats enough for now, lets hope these actually post.

Just a concept for a deck of playing cards I'm working on. The character is Mia from the TNT project I started way back in college.

Just trying to mix my more pinup illustration with the insane vector work. L from Deathnote. This in no way a finished thing, just a concept piece

Ok, so finally my new USB Fan has arrived, and truth be told I'm a little unhappy with the way it has turned out. sure its alot more stable than the older one that burned out last year, but £14 for something that you cant actually move around much is a little bit crappy. Oh well.



In other news its movie time. Not too sure which film I'm going to end up watching tonight, but all indications are its going to be Transformers 2, with Jar Jar twins and all.

Chances are I will not be Ustreaming until monday again, as over the weekends I have alot of different comings and goings and things to do.

Anyway, just realised I missed Naxx, gotta cut this shot.
Later.