knothead!

sorry for the lack of updates dudes, i'll be playing catchup for the next couple days.

it came to my attention that i have a couple of characters on the go and i should probably start focusing. the problem is is that i have way too much fun just inventing and its becoming a little ridiculous. hopefully i can generate alot of interest on a specifictopic and my pals will decide for me!

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it's knothead! that zany tree-man; wielding axes and chopping down everything standing in his way! we can see in this picture that he has chopped down a close relative and the squirrel is totally confused because now he has no where to store his nuts.

knothead never talks, usually because he has a family of crows living in his head.

that's a whetstone on his side there for weighing down his important documents when it gets breezy.

this is a facelift for a quick sketch i did a while ago here: VVV

old knothead

enough with the talking! here's the pic!

deadbolt the cosmic necromancer

here's a guy i drew cause i was wondering how crazy it would be if an earth man necromancer had to deal with death and necromancing up in space. it would probably scramble your brains apart and you'd go crazy. i also wanted to draw some bone guns.

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dealing with the dead is hard enough here on earth, but just imagine getting haunted in space! when deadbolt, the shin-gunning nercomancer for hire, left his planet's atmosphere for the first time he learned the hard way that death's shit is waaaaaay more serious when lightyears are involved.

basically deadbolt is constantly being bombarded with cosmic haunts and ghosts as well as the armies of the undead. space is a super-duper lonely place and its dead finally found someone to talk to.

those two guns he's got are shin guns and hit you with everything from bone splinters to voodoo curses. treating the wounds from a shin gun is a real crap shoot as its effects are constantly fluctuating.

so deadbolt is the first in a few dudes i'm going to draw in a series i call "rest in space" where the main focus is how the undead is handled on a cosmic level.

root omega, the salad samurai!

a quick dude from a series of guys i'm going to draw called the salad samurai. the next character is named beetstick and he's a chubby beet guy that uses a bo staff or something, enjoy!

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its root-omega the salad samurai! with his fierce zester-blade he annihilates the citrus swordsmen and any other fruit or vegetable based warrior that is foolish enough to test his metal.

root omega was grown by the gardener monks over the course of many moons. while he was growing in the battle enriched earth he was also bombarded with the sweet serenades of lou reed, keeping him totally on the level and chilled right out.

so basically it was late and i needed to crank something out. i think i have a new fall back if i'm out of stuff to draw. prepare for some concept sheets of more salad samurai during the wee hours of the evening.

the blood walkers!

finally some good ol' fasoned zombie dudes! gotta love th undead wielding shovels! thought up these when an idea went through my head that it would be great if blue collar zombie warriors were conscripted to dig up reserves for the unstoppable undead army.

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the bloodwalkers!. these dudes are a little clumsy but specialize in exhuming new recruits up from graveyards. a hunter of the undead can easily track them through their bloody footprints they leave, hence their name.

the quicker hand-spade bloodwalkers are more scouts, while the heavier shovel wielders are responsible for the heavy digging and dealing with any of the living foolish enough to stand in thier way.

also, the dude with the hand spade has lopped off his own head in a fit of extreme clumsyness.

more too come soon

-jouste

ptony the pteroman

more guys from space! another dude currently in my space roster. i LOVE pterodactyls, i always wanted to fly on one, and if anyone doesn't think that that would be totally awesome they are dead-lying to themselves and thats a shame.

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its ptony the pteroman! ptony is a star tagger. he tags roving male star-beasts with his harpoon-tagger and they lead him and his shipmates to the herds where they can poach to their hearts content.

ptony lost his right leg to a very aggressive space-orca bull when his tag hit a very small cluster of nerves on the monster and it charged him. luckily ptony's good pal is good with cybernetics and he was outfitted with the wonderful robotic leg pictured here. the leg holds some spare ammunition and can open the side of a space-cruiser in a pinch.

pteromen are the galaxies' most ruthless poachers. they've been known to poach everything from moon salmon to space eggs. the pteromen's fur,scale  and ivory trade is a massive operation and they are also no slouches in combat. using their cunning and zero-gravity combat abilities they have gotten out of many a tough situation.

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just got my eyes on some new software shown to me by a pal at polycount. so be prepared for some cool drawing with jouste video sessions.

more to come soon

-jouste

sharkula from the shark side of the moon!

i made this guy up almost 4 years ago and i remember him being so cool i needed to give him a face lift and another visit. sharkula is definitely one of the initial characters of mine that began the saga of ridiculous space characters so i owe it to him to keep him alive and well.

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its sharkula! a dreaded space-shark-vampire from the shark side of the moon! in his grasp is the most amazing RADSLAYER a knife so deadly that it needs 2 handles! a pneumatic dorsal-blade is also available for the constant combat most shark-vampires face on a day to day basis.

now as most vampires, sharkula needs blood to do awesome things. enter the BLUD BELT. on sharkula's waist is the blood belt and it displays how much blood sharkula has in reserve for doing awesome things. whenever sharkula decides to do something awesome (like beating up ryu or out-acting jeffery combs) a light goes out, reminding sharkula how much blood-moves he's got in reserve and how drastically he needs to fill up his reserves.

luckily sharkula slashes through piles of dudes, and wit hall that slicing going on there's bounds to be gallons of blood flying everywhere. a shark-vampire's scales are very absorbent and soak up any blood. they're like a bunch of little shamwows when it comes to blood. so basically, if sharkula focuses on using up his blood points to slaughter his way through dudes, he'll keep filling up his blud belt and keep doing awesome things!

initially i figure that blud belts can get upgraded with enough rank or whatever, like link's hearts.

so an older character i had that i decided to give a face lift. always liked the idea of a 2d sidescroller with this dude bloodening his way through awesome crazy levels. sigh, a man can always dream!

p.s. a very good friend of mine came up with a wicked idea that sharkula fights the undead in some encounters, cause they have no blood! so sharkula would have to be extra careful with his blood reserves.

notch the fighter

so i hit up the audio books and went through "king solomon's mines" by haggard. man alive was that ever great. jungle adventure, zulu combat, ancient caverns. anyways it got me on a stint of ancient warriors so i did up notch here. 

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he's super tough and has been known to be a ruthless mercenary who get's paid by the swing of his mighty weapon. he is currently handling the cost for looking at someone (a 3 silver minimum), usually this is enough to destroy the will of the target and only in extreme cases will he have to bring down the club and start caving in some rib cages.

his name is notch because of those cool notches on his weapon, these notches are a reminder of how many times he's blocked something sharp on his weapon.
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i designed his weapon after seeing the maori vs. monk episode of deadliest warrior, which has to be said, is the MOST cheesiest show ever. i love that its set up like a video game and its run by 4th graders trapped in men's bodies. it's a whole show of "my dad can beat up your dad" for adults which makes it quite enjoyable to watch.

anyways, the maori weapons were te bee's knees so i drew some influences on this guy here. 

more to come

-jouste