Reminder to my Gamer Friends...

Ok, I' going to get nerdy and fanboyish today.

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow comes out next week for Ps3 and Xbox. To celebrate the occasion I decided to draw a "Hunchback". People who played the original Castlevania will understand why I drew a hunchback as a villain today. Nothing caused more swearing at the screen than seeing one of these guys bouncing around with their erratic pattern on top of Simon's head.

I can't wait to swear again. Mine's on pre-order.

King Size Dread

There once was a ruler known as King Dread. As his name implied he was dreadful to his subjects and often pointed and laughed at peasants in particular.

One of his favorite things to do was nap in beds. He would often barge into a person's house, sleep in a bed he deemed fit for a king, and then leave an unmade bed behind without a thank you. Many subjects were distraught by this and even cried.

One day King Dread was wandering in the forbidden, haunted mystical forest and came across a witch's house. He kicked the old hag out and took a nap on her bed. When he awoke he emerged from the house refreshed. Much to the witch's dismay her bed was unmade. "Curse you King Dread, from this moment on you will never find a bed that suits you!"

POOF! was the only sound heard as the witch zapped him. What emerged was scary indeed. King Dread's body was changed to stone to king sized proportions. After smashing the witch's house he has since wandered the land searching for a bed fit for a king.

Birthday Beast "Benny"

Birthday Beast "Benny" shows up to birthday parties and gnaws on presents. He's teething.

Happy belated birthday to my nephew Tejas! This drawing is for him.

Live Feed tonight @ 8:30(ish) pacific

I'll be doing another live feed tonight around 8:30 pm pacific time. I wanted to try a night feed this time.

Weight Scale Scoundrel

Weight Scale Scoundrel loves to stay in shape and workout. He also wants to discourage all competition from keeping up with him. He places his weight on scales of anybody wanting to see their weight loss in hopes of discouraging them. I swore he visited me the other day.

First sketch to go "live" tomorrow

I'll aim to broadcast on my channel at 7:30 AM pacific time. This will be tomorrow, Tuesday September 21st.

Here is the broadcast channel:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jimbostreams


Yeah I understand, that's a little early, so if you can't make it you can always watch the archive. Tell your east coast friends and they can give you a review if you can't wake up.

Who will the villain be? Stay tuned...

Villain of The Day's first live stream

Well, I did my first first broadcast today. My broadcasting skills need a lot of work to say the least. However, I might as well start somewhere. Some things I'll research is the video quality. I wasn't thrilled with the end result and I'm guessing there is a way to improve on it. My mumbling through the video isn't helping either. Hope some of you get a good laugh at my incoherence at least.

As I figure out a working model for this I'll try to give out an advance message on facebook, here, etc.

Visit here for the video, (try to ignore my reading of the instructions at the beginning, sigh):

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9688097

Researching...

Hi folks. I'm going to "attempt" to sketch a drawing live soon. I was talking to my friend Corey about it, and he was selling me on Ustream. If I end up setting something up you folks will be the first to know.

Sneak Attack Turtle With Dynamite

The boxing glove didn't work. He's trying dynamite now. No one will see her coming.

The Wrinkler

Sometimes when I get a load of nice, clean clothes from the wash I like to let them pile up on the floor as a special reward to myself. By the next morning as I hurry to work I pick up a shirt from the same pile only to discover how insanely wrinkled it is! This is the work of The Wrinkler.

The Wrinkler can transport to different piles of clothes from any house, any neighborhood, and any country. It knows no bounds. I've seen its work all over. If you have a pile of clothes in your house, it will find a way. You have been warned. Curse you Wrinkler. Curse you.

In Utah

I'll post when I get a chance. I'm in Utah celebrating my nephew's 1st birthday!

Polarbear Flamethrower

Polarbear Flamethrower is mad at the society. He used to sit and ponder about different ways of taking over the world. Unfortunately there is little one can do living in the Arctic.

Then one day he discovered a flamethrower encased in ice. The wheels of evil thoughts began to spin in his mind. He now burns off chunks of icebergs sending them to civilizations as harbingers of doom.

Starcraft 2. That's where I've been.

I'll return to more villainy starting tomorrow. Over labor day weekend I got obsessed with Starcraft 2 and disappeared into a protoss warp prism. What I find frustrating is the game itself is just okay. But they put these damn achievements in there that I just had to get. I actually lost sleep happily trying to get those.

Arguably, the biggest strength in Starcraft was their multiplayer function delivered through their Battlenet servers. Unfortunately, this has been utterly destroyed in Starcraft 2 with "Battlenet 2.0"... In my opinion this puts the longevity of Starcraft 2 in doubt. I suppose I found a villain today after all.

Left Sock Sally

Left Sock Sally is the villain who steals our left socks out of the wash. It is some kind of twisted hobby for her I guess.

Special thanks to Corey Vuelta for this villainous idea