Aki, the Cover-girl

I did this picture for Wreck Shop's now sadly defunct paysite, "Rough House".

(For those of you with legal worries, the pictures I did for Rough House are my own works, were done with the permission of the depicted character's creators, and were not done as work-for-hire or any contractual obligation. Plus, we're on good terms, I doubt he's got a problem with me uploading them.)

Aki is the creation of Masschine, and I was glad to do this picture. It was a lot of fun to do, and I was extremely pleased with Aki's face. There are some problems, but I do like it overall. Also, all the blurbs on the FHM cover are taken from actual FHM covers. I looked for all the blurbs that had anything to do with male power or health and fitness, something no one seems to have noticed. I did it to reinforce the main appeal a lot of fbb fans have for fbbs, especially as shown on Awefilms.com, which is where Masschine works, and where the Aki comic - "Paladins" comes from - which is of the raw physical power of bodybuilding women, and the excitement of displays of that power.

Not only that, but the cover to Paladins was a Maxim spoof done by Wreck, and I thought it would be good to pay homage to that.

And, Masschine's real name is on that cover, for laughs.

But, of course, you've got to accept that FHM would never do a cover like this - unless they wanted to sabotage their own magazine. Which kinda sounds like The Producers to me.


Mild-Mannered Idal

This is Wreck Shop's own site mascot, the idyllic Idal. This was another Rough House pic, but not intended to be so. Wreck was always unbelievably nice to me, and gave me my own site on his domain, "Fettcom". Part of the original design of that site was an interview, and I drew this piece for the interview section of the site. But the interview section never occurred, and Wreck decided to add it to Rough House, which was fine with me.

I love the proportions of Idal in this picture. I actually think the colouring is too severe, it looks to 'painty', but I think the physical pose of Idal is one of my favourites. I love her face, hands, and her pose, I particularly love the way the suit clings to her body. I am particularly impressed with myself because my original draft made her seem very, very, bulky. I was really happy when I drew this as she actually looks kinda svelte, in a bizarre way, considering the size of this woman's arms, chests and well... she's huge all over. But the colouring, especially the purple background... nah.

One thing I wanted to do was add to the card in her hat, "Bench Press", but sadly, I couldn't make it legible.

Another time.


Day

My very own character, my lovely Vanessa "Ness" Marz. She's a cutie pie. This is the first of two images, both of her on holiday. The second is below. Of the two, this is my favourite, but most people prefer the latter.

Also, I love the palm tree's bark, but can't remember how I did it.

Ah, Ness. She still talks to me in my head. Messing around, telling me to take her picture once more... But then I tell her to take off her clothes, and she tells me to piss off and hides.

C'est la vie.


Night

The second of these two pieces, and the infinitely more popular one. I wanted to do a day and night picture, and drew this and didn't like it. So much so, I almost didn't post it. But I did - for two reasons:

1) I wanted to upload two pictures, one night and one day.
2) I realised that in the first picture, the sand covering Ness' feet may have looked like I was covering up her feet because I couldn't draw feet. To prove to everyone (but mainly myself) that I could draw feet, I felt I had to upload this image.

Lo and behold, everyone claims it as their most favourite pic of all time. Yeah, I know the tag, "How can someone so powerful be so coy?", especially since at that time, the only name she had was "hyperteen", as CDR had called her (a title she liked, but found rather embarrasing - she's really quite lazy) until I revealed her name. So yes, everyone loves this piece.

I think it's okay.

The only piece people seem to like more than this one is...


Threads

... because I overdid the bicep. I haven't actually made the bicep fit actual physical anatomy. Her shoulder muscles should overtake the bicep and draw it more into her body, something that harsh black line prevents. So a bit of a mistake.

Also, I admit, there's no way her hand can reach her forearm, like it does.

Despite that, it's a funny picture and was intended for Fettcom, namely for the "Threads" section. Wreck Shop wanted to post all the original threads, including the thread I debuted on, on Fettcom for archival purposes. So, the title and the entire theme of the pic is a pun on the word "Threads". I'm a funny man.

Also, the icon on the t-shirt is called "Grimace" and was an avatar option on Wreck Shop's forum and belonged to two posters I have a particular fondness for - Blargolis who seemed to love me, and jnw550, aka "Stoneyman" and "Mr Stone", who was an unbelievably nice and reasonable man, with whom I had many discussions with. Originally, I planned on putting CDR's avatar on the t-shirt since he'd been so after me to draw a picture of a woman's muscles bursting out of their clothes, but I decided to honour two posters instead of one, not because I liked them more than other posters, but simply because of the efficiency of being able to honour as many supports as possible.

Not only that, but that emoticon's face, I think, is incredibly appropriate to the theme of the pic.

Okay, okay. Ness asks me to tell you she wasn't happy with the t-shirt, nor my taking of the pic. She was particularly peeved about the whole thing. And who had to call up the people and demand their money back? Me. Not Ness. Me. She couldn't be bothered to "go through all that crap", so muggins here had to do it. She wasn't allowed a refund, and so she just cut the sleeves off and wears it when she works out, which makes the Grimace emoticon even more appropriate as it now resembles the wearer. (Incidentally, don't tell her I said that.)