Today’s WoD is from my buddy Nick: Darth Maul and Skeletor hi-five. As soon as I got this one I knew I had to draw it.

BTW, Nick has gotten back int the webcomic world recently. His new project is titled Oh Perilous World. If you are into horror/sci-fi/fantasy go on and give it a look.

Today’s WoD submission was for a mechanized version of my old partner dern (specifically MECHADERN!). Robots aren’t really my thing but I’m pretty happy with the line I walked on this one. It’s funny though, that I’m a month-plus out from being the artist at Hello with Cheese and I’m still drawing dern.

As if you couldn’t tell, today’s drawing is a result of the Wheel-of-Death me request I made earlier in the week. My friend Allison sent me a bunch of suggestions. Oddly enough when I put 3 of them together they seemed to make and odd little story/scenario in my head. So there you go, Happy Friday.

I’ve been having a hard time sitting down to draw lately (as evidenced by the lack of posts). Well, earlier today I took a page out of the Super Art Fight playbook and asked the folks on twitter to Wheel-of-Death me. And boy did I get some interesting responses (but that’s for later posts). The drawing above came from my buddy and fellow illustrator Lee Cherolis. He suggested I find someone I’m not familiar with and draw their caricature. I’ve never considered caricatures a strength and it’s been a long time since I tried so I took it as a good idea.

Now at the time I was listening to the latest MacBreak Weekly podcast and I realized that even though I subscribe to his blog, daringfireball.net I had no idea what guest John Gruber looked like. So five seconds later and a tappity-tap on google I had my resource photos. Shortly after that, what you see above.

Yeah, this really happened.
For my birthday 2 weeks ago The Wife got me P90X (I was my heaviest ever when I turned 34). This happened while she was researching the exercise equipment that would be needed to go with it. I just so happened to be sitting on the other couch so I got to see this live. I did it no justice.

Yeah, I know. I’ve been kinda quiet this past week. Between my birthday, the holiday and the heat (along with some other excuses, I’m sure) I just haven’t been able to get anything posted. Hopefully this one makes up for it a little. I think I’m getting a little better at women in general so now I’m trying to punch it up with my shading. Is it working for you?

Yesterday was my birthday so… yeah. I guess I’m contemplating mortality today. Fun.