Drew Crowley

The Orphan and Doop

The U-Go Girl watercolor made me want to do a watercolor of my two other favorite characters from the X-Statix books, Orphan and Doop.

Orphan, a.k.a. Guy Smith’s abilities are as follows,

From wikipedia:
He possessed superhuman enhanced senses; a radar-like detection ability from his antennae; he could sense vulnerability, whether emotional or physical; a corresponding superhuman reflex/reaction rate and level of coordination. If exposed to too much external stimuli, his senses would overload and he would have a seizure. Guy relied on meditation to help alleviate the constant pain (for even a fine mist felt like needles stabbing his skin) until Professor X developed a special suit and ointment to dull his senses and allow him to live a normal life.

And Doop, the little green guy, had the following abilities:

From wikipedia
Doop’s abilities displayed in the comics thus far have included superhuman strength and durability, flight, regeneration, physical malleability, a vaguely defined ability to manipulate time and/or space, and the ability to replicate physical objects by unknown means.

U-Go-Girl

U-Go-Girl was a mutant and member of the team X-Force/X-statix when Mike Allred and Peter Milligan were penciling/authoring the book. She was one of my favorite characters in the book. Hera bility teleportation and she would often take the entire team whereever they needed to go, though it would take a lot out of her each time. In the books, she was something of a trainwreck, but still quite likeable and probably one of the more stable characters, oddly enough.

Ginger

Ginger was the sweetest dog I’ve ever met. When I was a kid, I would tell people she was part wolf because she resembled one so much. I used to chase her around the back yard, both of us running full tilt. When we got tired of that we’d just walk side by side. I’d pretend I was out in the wilderness with a wild but kind wolf at my side. She lived for about 17 or 18 years and I was lucky enough to be there for most of them.

TMNT doodle

Like most males my age, my favorite cartoon from the late 80s early 90s was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. To me, the funniest of the group (in the cartoon, anyway) was Raphael. I remember being very confused by his aggressive, stand-offish attitude in the movie but continued to love him regardless. It wasn’t until much later that I learned the show was based on a comic and  Raph’s personality had been softened for the cartoon.

Congestive Art Failure

Here’s the watercolor I did for the Congestive Art Failure show this weekend.

I was going for the different ways medicine can affect you. Some makes you smarter, more amorous, some can KILL you (dun dun DUNNNN!) and some helps you focus. I had a few other ideas but the canvas I got is pretty small so I didn’t have a whole lot of room. This is also my first real attempt at watercolor and I’m pretty happy with it.

The show is being put together by Evermore Gallery where I got my tattoo (many thanks to Carrie for that!). Opening night is Saturday, February 14th at FUBAR. You should stop by and see this thing in real life, along with a lot of other great stuff.

Dork Bowl 09

Every year my friends Adam and Kelly throw a big old bash called Dork Bowl in which we celebrate all things dorky (during the Super Bowl of course).

This year Adam and I put together a dork-themed trivia challenge and the first place winners were awarded a t-shirt with this design (by yours truly) on it.

The trivia went pretty well. We got some grief for making the trivia questions too difficult/specific and not having enough questions for each round. Valid points, but for my first go at running a trivia competition I was pretty pleased with the results. Maybe we’ll do it again on a non-dorkbowl night so we can have more questions without worrying about time constraints.

Drawings, drawings and more drawings

As noted in the comments on the post below, I haven’t updated in a while. So here’s some stuff I’ve done recently.

I’ve been toying around with watercolor and these are the fruits of my labor:

I’m doing an art show in February and I wanted to try something in watercolor. Having never used it before I wanted to get in some practice.

Also doodled a new kanashibari sketch while at work yesterday. (shhh, don’t tell anyone)

And finally, I’ve been thinking about bringing Hugh & Bot back. I’ve already got quite a few things going, project-wise, so who knows when I’d actually be able to get to these guys again. Regardless, I took a stab at drawing them a bit differently. And I like it.

Tori

A few months back my cat Tori passed away. She got sick pretty suddenly and, sadly, didn’t make it through. Just before all this happened I had perfected drawing the little girl and it culminated in this sketch.

This was a position I often found her in. She was a very strange but incredibly loveable cat and I’ll miss her.

Hugh & Bot

In the St. Louis airport on wednesday and then on the plane back from Newark on thursday I was feeling nostalgic and sketched up a little tribute to my 2.5 year webcomic Hugh & Bot. I really need to bring these guys back.

Can YOU name them all?

You can see a larger version over at my flickr page: www.flickr.com/detailedghost