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[John Roberts]

So, to have a bit of fun with my crusty drawing history, here's a small bunch of stuff in order from 1993 to nowish - to the best of my bloody memory.

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1993 - the oldest piece of art I was able to dig up. Sonic! The first page of my history school book.

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Ermm.. 1994? And don't ask what this was about. I have no comment.

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1994 - Sonic again, with the wrong coloured arms, and a much better muse to copy from (Scott Shaw!).

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1995 - Maybe? Whenever that Archie issue of Evil Sonic came out. All I remember is I drew it before the following:

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1995 - A random, weird idea I sketched that later took on bigger random, weird ideas for a comic.

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1995 - And this is the front cover of that random, weird idea comic. A Sonic comic, to be exact. Or, as I like to refer the comic as, learning to ink. Unfinished.

And here's the rest of it:
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Introducing Carmen, the dreaded fancharacter phase we all go through. More on her later.
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Aaaand that's as far as that ever went. I make no excuses for the script, but I reckon I got pretty darn good at the whole comic drawing thing and inking.

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1996 - A sketch related to the above comic.

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1996 - Carmen. We won't see her again for several years.

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1997 - This character again. I got no fucking clue was this was about.

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1997 - Boobies!

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1997 - Aeris, or Aerith, or whatever-the-fuck her name is now. Sketching from a FFVII playthrough guide - the same guide that spoiled the whole Aeris dying scene (Bastards!).

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1997 - Tifa! Same as above.

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1998 - A Zombie horse. Playing with charcoal for the first (and only) time.

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200X (haven't got a fucking clue) - The Mina/Rikku picture I drew with Bleak when I visited the bugger.

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200X - Female Tails, with a really ugly bum.


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2004 - Went through this whole Mina/Sally phase, even wrote a crappy fanfic about it.

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2004 - Carmen makes a comeback - as a completely different species. The first attempt at photoshop colouring. Also the ONLY attempt at photshop colouring, ever, for obvious reasons.

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2004 - Drawn for an old FUS competition.

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2005 - Another FUS comp. Cracks me up still.

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2005 - Godzilla looking for a Job - No fucking idea what inspired this.
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2005 - A third comp pic. Never finished this one. One of my better bum drawings though!

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2005 - Tamara - a friend's character from an RP group I was apart of for several years.

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2005 - Ace - another RP character.

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2005 - Casssar - the best and greatest fancharacter ever. MistressAli's character. All bow to Ali.

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2007 - Carmen - a really crappy drawing.

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2007 - Carmen - a less crappy and more funnier drawing.

And the last one I can find, and my personal favourite:
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I have nothing between late 2007 and now to show-off, mostly because that's when I joined the army and decided drawing was not worth the effort (aka - I kinda sucked). I tried my hand at a Web-comic once upon a time, but the less said about that disaster the better. And that's pretty much it, apart from some porn I drew that's not very good and not worth being judged at for it.

Oh, well, except for THIS one!
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[Morgan]

That's pretty damn good! And I recognize two of them but didn't realize you were the one who drew them. The colored ones of Sally and Sonic near the top.

[chief]

Bah. My drawings kick so much more ass.




Back in the good ol day years ago when CGM still buggered around..

And next, my most famous one. The one I even entered in a Lupe contest and had Kaotix and Prime almost kill me for...





I am a PRO

[Inhibitor]

Those are some pretty good pictures John. That comic of yours was also interesting. Quite a shame that its not finished though. Some of your other drawing were definitely...different, and by different I mean that I've never seen a MinaxSally pairing anywhere before.

It's not a bad pairing though.

[Kaotix]

I always did love Carmen. She was such a cute Koala. She and Kaige had a fun relationship.

And Tammy is still based on your drawing that you did of her. (Little updates here and there over the years of course).

[Gojira007]

2005 - Godzilla looking for a Job - No fucking idea what inspired this.

Perhaps it was prophetic? 83

All kidding aside, it's sorta cool to see all these pics of yours, watch your style mature and evolve over time. You've got a real talent for this, I think.

[chalcara]

I love your art John. :3 Always did.

You've got heaps of talent, all that you need is practice and you'll be *really* good.

[Glitcher]

I've never seen a MinaxSally pairing anywhere before.

I have. I bet this is the sort of picture that John keeps near his bed:



John, considering you're in charge of one of the upcoming Sea3on shorts, I'm surprised you've only digitally coloured one drawing all these years. I fail to see what "obvious reasons" are holding you back. It's not as if it's a poor first attempt. Are you disappointed? Did you expect it to look perfect on your first try? I mean, Jesus, you should check out some of the tripe I made when I was first learning Photoshop. Here, take a look at this abomination that I made a decade ago. Does it look any better than your picture? What would have happened if I threw aside my tablet and vowed never to paint again because of an early failure? It takes practice and perseverance to become as powerful as I am now. That, and a little bit of tech savvy. I got my Photoshop savoir faire from one of Scott Kelby's Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks books, but there are also plenty of Photoshop magazines and YouTube tutorials out there than can teach you some neat effects. Photoshop is a complicated program, and you'll be surprised how effectively it can jazz up your art when you know how to create chrome letters or multi-coloured light bursts. Look it up.

I see you're no stranger to comics at least. The story of Bunnie being deroboticized looks strangely familiar somehow. I have to give you credit; Sonic, Sally, Antoine and Rotor especially all bear a good resemblance to how they appeared in the early Archie issues. Only Bunnie remains a shadow of her official look, with bizarrely-shaped limbs and inexplicably black hair. It doesn't help either that she has two sensors conspicuously located on her breasts. *snigger* I can't really comment on the plot when it's incomplete, but you might want to run your script through a spell-checker first. "Taung medication"... "Your urgently needed"... "No civilians are aloud"... and what the hell is "investigatement"? This is all on one page! Even if you do fix your writing, I still think you should let Chief take over for the next short. His drawings are proportionally correct, highly expressive and they provoke a deep emotional resonance within me. (Laughter.)

PS. I just love the sketch of Bunnie bound and gagged because of how totally misogynist it is. Does this also get you off, John?

[chief]

I told you my drawings are better John!

[John Roberts]

Thanks everyone.

Glitcher: I won't be colouring my Sea3on short. I only dabbled in the digital colouring those many years ago 'cause I thought 'Gee, that looks easy'. And it wasn't! I had no further intention in putting in the hours of practice needed to get good at it, and I still don't. It's not about expecting to be perfect at it the first time, it's about 'well stuff that idea'. Paying someone else to do it is my motto! As for putting the script through a spell checker, well, first of all that was 15 years ago. And secondly, there was no script. I was making everything up, word for word, page for page, as I went along. There were no Cylon plan for my little comic.

"PS. I just love the sketch of Bunnie bound and gagged because of how totally misogynist it is. Does this also get you off, John?" Many things got me off when I was a teenager. Especially the bound and gagged Bunnie. Many years later and now it's 'bound and gagged Claudia Christian', or 'bound and gagged BY Claudia Christian'. I like to think I've grown as a person.

[chief]

Of course you have John.





By the way... You will never out live that.