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Author: Cal

Setting the setting

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Cal

As some may have noticed, I don’t like drawing backgrounds. They drive me nuts and bore me to tears. it’s not so much that I can’t, I just don’t care. In particular, I hate interiors. But I knew that the
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Posted in BLOGTagged art, background, cave, ch3, concept, design, floor, house, kiva, silne, tent, words, yaodong
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GLADIATORS

Posted on September 20, 2021 by Cal

GLADIATORS!! more or less. not sure they’ll actually be called gladiators, but that’s basically what they are. I have some fun ideas and some unique (?) twists I’m looking forward to whenever I show them.

Posted in BLOGTagged armor, art, concept, design, gladiator, outfit, weapon
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An anachronistic (?) choice of head coverings

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Cal

i’m cool making style choices that might seem anachronistic to us. turns out golf visors would be perfect for antelope ears. even if i doubt they would be familiar with a good 18 holes of the king’s game there’s no reason
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Posted in BLOGTagged art, baseball, cap, clothing, concept, design, hat, visor
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The unexplainable

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Cal

Legends of old and tales of tomorrow. what frightens is that most legends have some truth to them.

Posted in BLOGTagged concept art, design, thumbnail, unexplainable
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Heroes of old

Posted on August 15, 2021 by Cal

something i’ve enjoyed doing as of late are these little thumbnail exercises. heroes of old, tales true and exaggerated. gives me ideas for possible scenarios in the comic world at times and i enjoy the process. some of them may
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Posted in BLOGTagged concept art, design, heroes, thumbnail
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Rene outfittery snazzle bedazzle

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Cal

doing some other art stuff for jobs in real life so haven’t had too much focus for the comic as of late. still gonna be slow going. if only we had some snappy clothes to make the wait less painful—-
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Posted in BLOGTagged clothes, clothing, color, colorful, colour, concept, snazzy
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WARNING: incoming karate chop

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Cal

playing around drawing some ladies and good old dynamic possés so why not make one a kangaroo lizard WHATCHU SOME KINDA KUNG FU WRESTLER?? WINDMILL KICK THAT NON-EXISTENT SUB BUTTON BOYEE (or lady)

Posted in BLOGTagged art, concept, design, judo, karate, martial arts, ninja, wrestling
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(Lack of) programming skills, part 2

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Cal

some more pixel testing stuff. man i wanna make this game but unfortunately that means i have to actually make it. the game would have a lot of dialogue interactions so expressions would be important. and also i like doing them. these
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Posted in BLOGTagged art, code, game, nintendo, pixel, program, rpg
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If only I was a programmer

Posted on June 20, 2021 by Cal

playing around with some pixel art stuff. inspired a bit by dungeon of the endless because i love that game. probably would have fairly simple terrain. should help the characters pop and I think it could look good. but also
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Posted in BLOGTagged code, design, oregon trail, pixel, program, roguelike, rpg
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