This is what happens when you play poker with a telepath - you lose. This is part of that project I've been talking about lately. I have this friend that loves the X-Men and thanks to her I've gotten something of an addiction as well so I drew this basically for her but while drawing/coloring it, I thought of this witty little caption because really, what else is Professor Xavier going to use that money for? He's already rich! So while he's collecting the "donation", Gambit looks ready to break down and cry and Longshot still can't wrap his head around the fact that the Professor knew exactly what cards he was holding without looking. So now I leave you to enjoy the rest of your week.
Hi there. I know that I'm not being very regular in my blogging but I happen to be feeling a bit blah lately and I'm also working on that little "project" that I'm doing on paper but I'm a little stumped right now as to what to do with myself and my drawings so then my blog gets put on the back burner. But I have this drawing that I started as a T-shirt idea but then my parents made me turn off my computer in a hurry and instead of saving it so I could finish working on it later, I hit to save it as bitmap instead. (I was standing and the option for bitmap file is right above PSD in FireAlpaca so....) It is a character of mine that I invented senior year and her little brother.
I know she looks kinda like Word Girl but I happen to be a fan of the show and I was watching it pretty regularly that year (I know it's for little kids but it's not condescending thank god) so that probably influenced how her design turned out. Carolina (that's her name) was my attempt at developing a cartoon style and also to add a little Latin flavor to cartoons. Yeah, Carolina happens to be Cuban and she's my only Cuban cartoon character not related to anything with superheroes to date. The girl that nearly wrote on a tissue (see here) is another Cuban character of mine but she's manga and that is a totally different story. Why do I specifically have Cuban characters? I happen to be of Cuban descent and even though I was born and raised here with an American mindset, I find it a little saddening that there isn't much reference to Cubans in entertainment period. This includes TV, music, comic books, you name it. And since I believe in variety and diversity, I do my best to reflect that even among Hispanics there is variety and diversity and cultural differences that a Hispanic from another country may not fully understand or be aware of. So yeah. I haven't really come up with much for her after that and you can tell that her style is different from that of my X-Men but like I've said, I do a lot of experimenting to see what I like and I actually prefer the eyelashes up top but also for some characters, they just have a style all their own.
