Toasts for Brains. hmm... Braaains...

Big trouble in Besar-Monyet!

2009-01-06T11:38:00.005Z

Finally some pulpy project underway. The rules are already sketched out and the three parties envolved (Archeologists, German Mercenaries and Cultists) are currently being fleshed-out.

I´ll update this project later on, but it all involves a lost Pacific Island, a Golden Idol and a Giant Gorilla. What could possibly be wrong? Maybe some zombies and ninjas missing, but we can probably solve that :)

I took some atmospheric photos to set the mood for the game. Hopefully all stars will be aligned so that we can actually play this later on this month.

Pictures follow, depicting a previously failed expedition of the Imperial German Army to aforementioned Island:

Nice Monkey...

Gorilla wins! Fatality!

Various Digital drawings

2009-01-06T10:21:00.006Z

Some slow days at work and I found the perfect way to battle death by boredom - I brought my tablet in to the office. A couple of days later (and hours upon hours of metal in my headphones) I had some work to show for it:

An Angel:

A Female daemon:

And the start of some Zodiac signs (currently only, and by this order: Gemini, Libra, Sagittarius and Virgo):

I finished up with a (Hellish) cityscape:

Comments are more than welcome :)

El Pollo Diablo!

2008-03-18T10:24:00.004Z

I´m doing good progress on my Pirate Ship, "El Pollo Diablo".
Here are some WIP pictures (looks like I´ll have it ready for battle next Thursday afterall :))

Overview of the work so far. I had to remove the mast for priming and lower the aft castle a wee bit.

The aft of the "El Pollo Diablo" - with nametag :)

Side view of the Ship. There are some (barely perceptible in the photo) skulls mounted on poles along the sides of the deck. Very piratey :)

Hopefully all major work will be done tomorrow - my aim is mainly to get him "presentable" to put on the gaming table next Thursday. I´ll handle details after that - nothing says Easter like painting skulls on a Pirate Ship :)

I´ve also started work on a smaller boat (a dingy). More on that on the next update.

A Pirate I was meant to be!

2008-03-17T15:01:00.006Z

Been slow hobby-wise for the past couple of weeks, as I was preparing everything for the organization of a FoW tournament (GTS 2008), with Meninobesta. It all went well and I managed to get my hands on Legends of the High Seas.

The result was that I went down bad (worse than before) with Pirate fever and decided to tackle a major (at least for me) modeling project - A Pirate Ship!

As I´m much more a Monkey Island man than a Master & Commander one, I went for a cartoony look for my ship and christened him "El Pollo Diablo" - a fitting name :)

Images of Guybrush still stir up some funny bone inside me, fruit of lots of time spent on Scabb Island searching for Big Whoop.

The Man himself, Guybrush Threepwood:

Work is underway and I expect the launching ceremony to happen very soon, meanwhile I leave you with some Work in Progress pictures.

El Pollo Diablo complete with masts and Pirate props:

The arms race is on as Meninobesta is also busy with a rival (still nameless) vessel:

Next Thursday I expect to have El Pollo Diablo minimally presentable to make an appearance at my very first LotHS game, versus Meninobesta.

I´ve read the rules and I´m sure it will be a blast :)

Some general updates

2008-02-22T16:22:00.004Z

A very generic hobby update:

I´ve been working on this an that - without much to show because I´ve been mainly gluing lead to MDF for 3 or 4 days.

Thats all done now and I´m the proud owner of a Roman Metal Army, mustering on the Field of Mars and waiting to be primed. Here it is parading, joined by the minis that had early access to paint:

In between gluing my fingers I did some 28mm Pirates (The dandy in the middle will be my "Major Pirate": Antoine "La Verrue" (The Wart):

Having glued all my Corvus minis, I did a test base of Legionaries, just to imagine what it will all look like once done. A very easy paint the Corvus minis:

I can expect to have further updates on both the Pirates and the Romans very soon. In paralel I´m advancing (not worthy of photos just yet) the rest of my zombie Germans and some Flames of War Tanks.

S. Valentines Day Massacre!

2008-02-14T10:58:00.002Z

Treat your loved one to a special Valentines Day Card... of DEATH!!!! :D

ROMA VICTOR redux

2008-02-08T13:30:00.000Z

A very quick post

As promised in the previous entry, the finished command stand, Lucius Vorenus:

Quite different from his "Rome" counterpart (below) , but I don´t really care :)

Now I´m out of Ancients minis untill I get my Corvus Belli order, so I will have to focus on other projects. Mainly I´ll go for my 15mm Napoleonics now.

ROMA VICTOR

2008-02-07T10:36:00.000Z

Senātus Populusque Rōmānus: The Senate and the Roman People.

In preparation of the release of Field of Glory (an Ancients themed tabletop wargame, from Biblical times up to 1500AD) I´m prepping a Late Republican Roman Army in 15mm. It will be loosely based in Caeser´s Legions circa 50 BC.

My commanders will be very unhistorical as I´m quite partial to HBO´s mini-series "Rome". So I´ll have Julius Caeser as the overall commander of my army and Vorenus and Pullo as his lieutenants.

Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus are historical characters (not as depicted in the show though) and are mentioned by Caeser in Commentaries of the Gallic War. They were actually Centurions, but for the purposes of my Roman Army they´ll be promoted to Generals.

All my orders are placed and some have managed to trickle through to Portugal.
I received last Sunday the Magister Militum portion of the order, in the form of 2 blisters of Cretan Archers and a Mounted Roman command pack (4 minis, good for 1 or 2 command stands). Very nice miniatures all of them, if a little limited regarding different poses (the Cretans are all exactly the same cast...)

I had been waiting for these for a long time, so as soon as I got my hands on them I rushed home, cleaned and primed them and painted them up and based them in one session. And here they are, my Cretan Archers:

In the background is a Work in Progress command stand (It´s Lucius Vorenus) that I have since finished - will post a picture soon.

I hope to get the bulk of my order (excellent minis from Corvus Belli) in the next few days. Ancients is a new period for me and I´m quite excited at painting them all up.

I´ve played a FoG game with a cardboard cutout army and using the Beta rules and quite liked the mechanics.

Expect a torrent of Roman pictures to be put up here once I get my hands on some Corvus wee men :)

For more about Field of Glory, visit the Slitherine forums.

LeiriaCon 2008: Highlights

2008-02-04T10:05:00.000Z

A while back, I was invited by my good friend Manuel Pombeiro to do a Flames of War demo for LeiriaCon 2008 (the largest Boardgames yearly convention here in Portugal). Me and Meninobesta, veterans of many a FoW demo, built a couple of 2000 point LW lists, packed up rulebooks and terrain and off we went to be-castled Leiria to spend a day gaming.

We planned of course to get involved in other games, not least of which a record-breaking Wings of War mayhem (we broke the record for simultaneous players and planes for WoW: 47 in a 6 meter long table!!!).

One of the Wings of War games designers, Andrea Angiolino, was present to show us the future wave 2 WoW miniatures and to participate in the record-breaking game.

The record itself is well described at Boardgamegeek, here.

Andrea also reported on it, here.

Some wave 2 WoW miniatures:

There was some interest generated by a lovely set up of Flames of War, and we still found the time to dally in some boardgaming action - a perfect day :)

Games I played:
- 2000 pts LW FoW demo
- Wings of War
- Crokinole (a game that dates back to 1876!!! It´s kind of a tabletop version of Curling with several twists)

- Last Night on Earth (Zombie B-Flick on a table with all the juicy clichés - Cooperate or die! excellent!)

- Ca$h ´n Gun$ (Divide up the loot while menacing people with foam pistols!)

We packed up around midnight and left for home, after a day (very) well spent. I will surely want to attend the 2009 Convention. Good games and good people all around.

Problem is I have succumbed to Wings of War madness and proceeded to dole out some cash in exchange for the base set plus a Sopwith Camel, a Spad XIII, an Albatros d.V and a Fokker Dr. I. I´ve got canvas and spandau fever :)

The Kempf Fokker (I am now the proud owner of a 1/144 version of this :)):

In the middle wing of his Fokker Dr. I he sports the cheeky question: "Do you remember me?"

All the Leiria Con Pictures I took at my Picasa Gallery

and much (much!) more at Manuel´s Gallery

Some unpublished drawings

2008-01-24T10:04:00.000Z

I've been doing some cleanup of my hard drive yesterday and found a couple of drawings I hadn´t uploaded anywhere before.

The first one is practically a sketch in red but I liked the effect and deemed it finished. Now that I post it, it kind of reminds me of James Coburn...):

The other is a fantasy themed one, also monochromatic (this one is pre-aquisition-of-Wacom, so it's done with the mouse):

Hope you enjoy them,

Torradas

Oberst Hyeronimous von Toth and his minions

2008-01-21T10:34:00.000Z

An ongoing project shared with Meninobesta has been the development of zombie rules for the new Triumph & Tragedy wargame rules.

We've played a couple of games and we still have to iron out some minor issues before we can settle on a final version.

Caught up in the excitement of wargaming zombie skirmishes I've been putting some priority into finishing my Pulp ww2 zombie group. I've even drawn up a small Allied Intelligence report meant to introduce my force (the "fluff" in GW terms).

Here it is:
"Situation Report:

This is what we learned thus far:

The Solamun Virus had been isolated by the Germans as early as 1940 but deemed too toxic to be used as an effective weapon.
Subjects died only to reanimate with no life signs, coupled with inhuman strength and a supernatural resistance to bodily harm.
Only complete removal of the brain was observed to be completely effective in permanently neutralizing those afflicted with the virus.
Subjects, upon reanimation, seemed to be driven solely by the instinct of feeding on the living and were completely uncontrollable. The virus was dismissed as a useful weapon.

When the tide of the war began to shift, after Stalingrad, interest in the Solamun´s uses in warfare re-surfaced. Several competing science teams were given funds to investigate a way to control the reanimated.

Oberst Hyeronimus von Toth and his team had a novel approach, and were scoffed at by their peers. They turned to Occult tomes and remote digging sites.

We have evidence that has lead us to believe that Toth as met with partial (or possibly complete) success. A recent commando raid on his lab (that we at the time believed to be a site for developing biological weapons) met heavy resistance from a small infantry force that although unarmed "simply would not die". We have strong reasons to believe that those were Solamun afflicted soldiers. We are to refrain from the use of the word "zombie" lest we impact morale too severely.

Toth was spotted never letting go of a briefcase and the Solamun afflicted troops seemed to be under his control. We suffered heavy casualties in the raid.

All we have learned comes from a member of Toth´s team captured in the aforementioned commando raid. He claims Toth is mad and operates completely outside of the control of the regime. He fashions himself a god. He is building an army out of the "afflicted" and the key to their control is an artifact in the briefcase, but the captured team member claims no one knows what it is - but it never leaves the briefcase Toth always carries.

It is imperative that Toth be stopped at all costs. This new threat could potentially turn the tide of the war, in unexpected ways, since Toth appears to have no loyalties to anyone besides himself."

And now some WIP photos of Toth & friends (on a Max Brooks background :)):

And a group shot, Toth in the middle with his briefcase:

More on this project as it progresses.

15mmMen: The missing floppies

2008-01-16T10:20:00.001Z

15mmMen is a more or less irregular comic I do for Battlefront and it revolves around the game Flames of War - some of the comics will only be understood by gamers "in the know" of the rules - others are (I expect) a bit more universal. It's more or less an even mix.

When Battlefront moved to a new site, they set me up with my very own gallery, but a couple of comics got lost in the process :(

The one I most get asked about is "The-Black-Knight-one".
Also known as "The-one-with-Meninobesta" (who is facing the Black Knight on this strip).
Also known to my PC as "strip 21".

Well - I of course have the originals, plus some sketches. So without further ado, I give you: "That one comic that had PG on it" (yet another alias) :)

Sketch with composition for the strip (If you click it, it will grow):

Strip in it's final online format (click it for full size):

And some more strips that went missing in the move:

"Big Game Night", featuring my friend, Firepigeon - btw, congrats on Geek of the Week #123 Manuel! (this one is a comic revolving about relative sizes of armies):

And "The Wargamers Creed" (a more general wargaming comic):

Some links of note:
15mmMen sketch book
15mmMen Gallery@Picasaweb
15mmMen Gallery@Battlefront

So all in all only 3 comics missing in some odd 40. Not bad :)

I'm currently on what (I hope) is a small break from 15mmMen. Because I'm bloody knackered :P

The only gamer in Sri Lanka

2008-01-15T18:32:00.000Z

Today I stumbled on a blog from a fellow gamer that happens to be in a bit of a pickle. If we (Portuguese Wargamers) often complain that we are low in number, take a look at:

http://myblogisfight.blogspot.com/

(Excellent taste in wargaming by the way - and in books by Zach Parsons I would bet :)).

It's from a fellow that goes by the name Pnweerar (also a fellow Lead Adventurer).

Like the pioneers of old, he alone is "of the hobby" in his Country.
He is the only gamer in Sri Lanka.

I promise that if I ever find myself in a situation where I would for some reason go to Sri Lanka, I will take my 15mm Grey Aliens, hoping to face his 15mm Frog Men :)

En avant... TUER!!!

2008-01-15T17:26:00.001Z

Another project started in 2007 were my 15mm French Peninsular force.

This Picture is quite old, as I've since added to this with some Cavalry, Artillery and more Infantry. Me and Meninobesta did de "Battle of the Douro" using Shako rules and currently our sights are set on the "Battle of Vimeiro".

Click here to access the scenario as written for Shako.

I still have some Infantry to go before I can tackle that one. In our homebrew basing system 3 bases are a battalion, so the picture above represents 5 line (or Ligne) Battalions and 1 Light (Legere) Battalion (with a base to spare).

Some additional photos:

A "General de Brigade" (He's based on 2c EUR coin - gives you an idea of scale):

An Artillery Piece. Pretty lethal in the Napoleonic times. You wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of a Grapeshot discharge:

French Dragoons. Real men wear pink facings with green turnbacks :)

My French Peninsular 15mm Gallery in an embeded slideshow (click play to start):

Full Gallery: 15mm French Peninsular @ Picasaweb

We come in peace

2008-01-15T17:14:00.000Z

Still on the subject of catching up, this time in wargaming.

Last year I read some quick rules for using little grey men in Flames of War. On impulse (damn Paypal and Credit Cards and the Internets! And then again, maybe not :)) I bought myself some little grey aliens of my very own. They arrived in glorious all metal look about 1 week later. Some dabs of the paintbrush later I had a 2000 points FoW system 15mm Grey Alien Invasion force, complete with Flying Saucer and giant Golden robots.

I, for one, welcome our new 15mm high Masters

Top secret photos of the invasion force

How the horde progressed: From Metal to Glorious Grey :)

Illustrations for Children

2008-01-15T16:06:00.001Z

Will try to quickly shoot out some posts that bring you up to date in some of the stuff I've been involved in last year.

This one was a fun one. It was fairly quick and I had just became a parent, so I had a critic at home to cry some opinions at the work in progress.

The general idea was that some squeaky clean dog would teach a dirty little boy about good hygiene habits. It was for a friend of mine (Pedro Rosa) to use in a school project envolving actual kids (I still have some left over copies of the booklet).

It was also a chance to get away from a much darker style I'm confortable in and try out a much softerpastellymylittleponycarebear style.

I did a Colored and a B&W all lines version (it was a coloring book)

An example of this is "Dirty Kid patting Squeaky Clean dog":

A complete listing of the colored plates in my Picasaweb Gallery

Well - lets get this going again :)

2008-01-15T15:42:00.000Z

I got lazy about my blog.

Time to get it up on its feet again. Time... to REANIMATE IT!!! BWHAHAHA!!!

Ok. I just had to have my "Herbert West" moment. I'm all right now.

I'll be introducing some other subjects to the blog - so I'll probably almost always have something to post about.

I'll be adding my other hobby interests besides drawing, namely:
Wargaming
Military History

Maybe the odd computing post.

Practically no Star Trek or D&D though, so maybe I'm not an uber-geek :)

Live long and Prosp... I mean, er..., cya!
Torradas

Scared Ghoul

2006-07-10T09:32:00.000+01:00

Losely based on a Oil on canvas I have hanging on the wall, that I did on my teens.

Still playing with colours and materials :)

More to come next week,

Torradas

Profile

2006-07-10T09:12:00.000+01:00

Well, Monday will be "official update day" for some time now - this because I can only find time to do some drawing on Sunday...

This is just an experiment of layering different materials and colours.

One more to come today.

Cheers,
Torradas

Never trust a woman with bat wings and a big sword.

2006-07-03T12:27:00.000+01:00

Don´t say you haven´t been warned :D

More to come.

"Comics" Style"! :)

2006-07-03T11:50:00.000+01:00

Finally, some time spent with my new pen tablet, which I have not fully enjoyed for some weeks now.

I´m still experimenting, and I went "Comics-style" on this one.

More to come from this latest session.

Cheers,
Torradas

First delvings with my new WACOM pen tablet

2006-06-13T00:20:00.000+01:00

I´ve spent the last few hours getting the "hang" of it - after about 1 hour installing Bluetooth Drivers, Wacom Drivers, and Corel Software.
The pen is quite intuitive, and I managed to get some presentable drawings done pretty quick :)
I produced some test pieces - but wasn´t quite happy with some colours I did, so I´ll post a black & white drawing I did to test the precision of the Wacom Graphire. I was quite happy with the result :) I can identify my free-hand technique much better than with the ones I did previously with the mouse... of course. :)

I do Miniature Wargaming, and for inspiration I had some 15mm Teppô (that´s rifle) Ashigaru (that´s the lowest ranks of Samurai armies in the "Sengoku Jidai Period" - AKA "The Warring States Period" - Circa 1400´s). Follow the links if you´re in to that sort of thing ;).
So it´s a Teppô Ashigaru -but with a twist - I gave him a futuristic sci-fi rifle :D.
The symbols on his banner mark him as a member of the Takeda Clan. Click the picture to get a full-resolution version. Blogspot´s compression blurs it up more than a little.

I can´t begin to say how lucky I am that I am now a proud owner of this pen tablet. I feel like a kid drawing in the math class all over again! :D

My friends pitched in...

2006-06-12T12:35:00.000+01:00

...at my birthday and got me a beautiful 2000dpi, 512 pressure lvl sensitive, A5 WACOM Graphire4 Bluetooth... :D

I´m beyond myself with happiness :D

I have to overcome a small hurdle though - gotta buy me a USB->Bluetooth dongle today, and I hope to be "at it" tonight. Expect updates in the coming days :)

Thanks to everyone that pitched in - I hope I can draw a caricature of each and everyone of you (and I do have a list... :D)

Cheers,
Torradas

Help Torradas get a WACOM fund :)

2006-05-02T17:35:00.000+01:00

I started a partnership with the good folks at Printshop.
So now you can have my blog pictures on a T-shirt, Coffee Cup, mouse mat, etc - of your choice :)

I will integrate the shop with this site so that it becomes readily available.

Meanwhile, the link is:

Loja Online da MeiaTorrada

Hope to have some updates soon,
Torradas

We have such sights to show you...

2006-04-19T14:13:00.000+01:00

Pinhead, from Hellraiser - a small tribute to an everlasting Icon of the Horror Genre.

The Demons that come and reward with pain your solving of the Lament Configuration seem to be a warning to stave the natural Human quality of curiosity. Will we ever delve to far in our quest for knowledge?

The One that cannot be named.

2006-04-17T19:50:00.001+01:00

The One That Cannot be named in the shape of one of his avatars - The King in Yellow.

Small "Cthulhian" Quiz: Who is "The One That cannot be named"?

Beware that if you name him, he might come :D

I´m quite satisfied with the overall dark, decadent look with which this one came out. Looks to me just what he is - a maddened king slumping in his throne. He could well be dead for all we can see - or is he just waiting?

The symbol floating above the figure is the Yellow Sign
I have put my sanity at risk by drawing the Yellow Sign - all my future actions are now controled by the King in Yellow ;)

Roll your Cthulhu RPG Sanity Checks! :D

The Black Goat in The Woods with a Thousand Young

2006-04-17T17:13:00.000+01:00

On a roll to depict the Cthulhu Mythos entities, I give you Shub-Niggurath. Although described as a "miasmic mass of tentacles" and a "cloudy mass", the epithet of "Black Goat" always burned a definite image in my mind, image which served as basis for the above drawing.

Apparently, according to the entry in Wikipedia, one Rodolfo Ferraresi wrote an essay ("The Question of Shub-Niggurath") in which he defends that Shub-Niggurath and the Black Goat are in fact two separate entities.

Now that I´m on a roll, Ill try and go through the majority of the Cthulhu Mythos. I do take requests :D

Crawling Chaos

2006-04-17T16:56:00.000+01:00

Prompted by Julião I took up is suggestion of tackling my depiction of Nyarlathotep.

Talk about leaving it open to imagination! - Nyarlathotep is supposed to have 1000 shapes!

I read wikipedia´s entry on this Outer God and instead of following by letter some of the aspects of Nyarlathotep in the list I read it diagonally and till I had the gist of it.

This Dark, tentacled, multi-mouthed female was the end result, with which I was quite happy. I quite like the effect of the swirling Chaos in the backdrop - kind of looks like the veiny, translucid, inside of some organ.

Still, all done with GIMP, a mouse, and a hand I had to shake once in a while to avoid cramps :P

It´s been a bit slow...

2006-04-11T17:12:00.000+01:00

Cheers,

A surge of work combined with vacations as led me to be astray from the drawing board for quite some time now...

However, you can expect new work to be put up during the next days :)

Current project (by request): Nyarlathotep :)

Torradas

Psycho-cherubin-beasty thinguie

2006-02-22T14:55:00.000Z

Another one of the 10 minutes sketches done with a WACOM pen. Vaguely inspired (at least initially, the it went wild) by a good friend of mine (you know who you are... :D). A flying evil cherub with a big gun about to open a can of whoopass on someone. He ain´t no cupid.

Grrrr... get off my stinking face!

2006-02-21T17:51:00.000Z

On the recent occasion of a good friend´s birthday (Paneum) I had a real treat: Using his WACOM pen. It took some getting used to, and this is one of the sketches that turned up from that brief (sigh...) session.

Ithaqua - The Cold Death

2006-02-21T15:51:00.000Z

Still in the Cthulhu Mythos vein, I present you Ithaqua - the Cold Death.

Here shown in 1:100 scale :D

He comes in the middle of a snow storm to snuff the warmth out of the world. If you ever roleplay "Call of Cthulhu" RPG, and you spot one of these across a snowy plain, run like hell.

Squid Ship concept

2006-02-20T19:53:00.000Z

A spaceship I recurrently have used in my drawings for about 15 years now. The shape haunts me. It look so streamlined and beautiful to me - only recently have I realized it has a very "fishy" look to it - hence "Squid" ship. I remember as a kid having all kinds of versions of this ship (as kids do): freighters, capitol ships, small fighters, scouts, etc...

Might be putting up some drawings in the future based on this concept.

satanspawnthecacodaemon!

2006-02-20T19:20:00.000Z

If there is or ever were daemons, I´ll bet they would look like this. The cliché red with horns and tail doesn´t scare anyone anymore. I named it cacodaemon because while I drew this I kept hearing "Satan Spawn the Cacodaemon" from Deicide in my mind. It stopped now. :D

Unholy Necronomicon Priest

2006-02-20T17:58:00.000Z

Sure am in a Pulp kind of mood.

Just drawn up a Necronomicon-toting Zombie Priest from Hell. Put´s me in the mood to cook up a "Call of Cthulhu" RPG, but the thought vanishes as soon as it came as I realize I have no time for RPG campaigns in my schedule... :P

Cya,
Torradas

PS.: The "zombie" link goes to Rob Zombie´s band, Rob manages to be both one of my favourite artists and one of my favourite musicians - be sure to check it out.

Speaking of Lovecraft...

2006-02-19T03:26:00.000Z

Here´s a deep one fresh off the pond.

Thinking of deep-ones always reminds me of two things:
- Roleplaying Call of Cthulhu from Chaosium
- "The Thing that Should not Be" from Metallica back when they had long hair. "Hybrid Children watch the sea..." :D

Check out the rest of the lyrics

Still all done with GIMP with nothing but a mouse and some coffee :)

Rare Ethiopian Nippled Toad

2006-02-19T01:49:00.000Z

I might not be many things (Im not a pot, or a flashlight, or a printer - just to name a few) but I sure am prolific. This blog is about publishing stuff I do on an impulse and without much forethought.
When I sketch I let the sketch evolve all on it´s own without much carefull consideration. It´s almost as if the hand is moving on it´s on accord as the my thought is somewhere else (not poetic in any way - I´m thinking what I´ll have for dinner, thinking about DVD´s I should buy - just really mundane stuff).
Sometimes I finish and look down and think: "Well, that´s odd...". This is one of those cases.
If you squint real hard you can probably make out a shape of a toad. You might be surprised that this particular toad has nipples. Maybe it´s not a toad - maybe it´s a Lovecraftian Deep One.

GIMP

2006-02-19T00:59:00.000Z

I´ve been playing around with GIMP - a freeware image editor.

As I´m just an amateur artist, and have no money left from my other hobbies I´m trying out GIMP (as opposed to being restricted do mspaint :P).

I´ve just installed it and made a 5 minute sketch that ended up looking like the bastard child of the Che Guevara Icon and a Zombie.

Gotta save me some money for a Wacom - drawing with a mouse has it´s limitations...

Cya,
Torradas

Heyas

2006-02-18T19:15:00.000Z

First things first. Im this guy here:
Don´t ask me how my glasses stay up without ears and nose...

I created this blog so that I can have someplace where I can put my sketches up. It could evolve into something else - I´ll just have to wait and see.

Cya,
Torradas