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She’s a Demon Hunter? – Art House

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Comics Talk might be a little bit more in-depth to tackle tonight (I wanted to reserve comic talk for Wednesday, but that’s also co-op game night…. hmm a conflict) Anyways, here’s a few drawings I’ve been working on over the past 6 months. Warning: this will be an image-heavy post.

Last post in February I finished the art section with K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Rumi. My regret is I haven’t made much progress on this trio. I’ve started inking Zoey, and started colouring Rumi, but haven’t made any additional progress on Mira. I hope to work on this group a bit more before the end of the year. Leaving drawing incomplete is a real bummer. But burnout is also a thing.

Next up is one of my favourite characters to draw recently, and I’m currently reading the comic series. Queen in Black. Hela. This first attempt I went all-in, and completed it right through to becoming a poster for the wall.

First was just the idea in my head, and completed in one night. But I knew at this point it needed to be a fully realized pin-up.

So next up is the progress steps, between pencil, ink, flats. And then finally finished colour.

After Hela I got the urge to draw Absolute Zatanna Zatarra from the Absolute Wonder Woman comic. From Sketch to Inks. To full colour. This one was a lot of fun.

Still had the urge for more Hela, Queen in Black:

Next up, Magik. Wasn’t entirely happy with this quick output, but it quenched the urges to draw on that night, and Magik is always a fun one to draw. Overall not bad, but the pose is intended to be her bracing against her sword – but it didn’t really land.

After this I was really getting in the game Dispatch, which I mentioned in the last post, and worked on a few of the characters. Hopefully will find the time to do some more. But for now, Blonde Blazer and Invisigal. For Invisigal, I had a few ideas for how I would illustrate the invisibility. Ended up just removing the colour instead to show the background gradient. But kept blue lines to convey the invisibility. Turned out kinda neat.

Some more heroes and villains next. First Wonder Woman. I was inspired by a minimalist silhouette drawing that I’d seen, very little details, dark stormy night. I wanted to try and recreate it myself. Lines, shading, and then some effects and colour. Very happy with the results. Went ’till 2am though, that night.

Some Harley Quinn is always fun to draw, with her many different costume suits. For the Harley Bat, I had some inspiration with Harley surrounded by zombies. Maybe reading too much of The Walking Dead. So I wanted to do a mash-up/crossover with Harley and Lucille and zombies. Cal it the Laughing Dead. Didn’t get to fully realize it as I got lazy and didn’t want to draw a bunch of zombies. But I still have the sketch saved somewhere, in the event I want to pick it up again. Maybe if I can find a Walking Dead blank cover, I could do something.

Watched Supergirl over the summer. Yes I enjoyed it. Milly is great. Lobo was a lot of fun. Layers and then the completed picture. The flats might make a good canvas block.

Last up, Cyberpunk’s Lucy, from Edgerunners. Looking forward to season 2 of the show. Not entirely happy with the drawing. But it was still a fun challenge, trying to create an anime character in my style.

And then as per tradition, we have my annual #faceyourart. The challenge where you are supposed to post only the faces from your drawings. Here’s the last 12 months of faces (Aug 2025 – Aug 2026) which includes last year’s drawtober submissions:

While I mostly work digitally, I do like to display my art through different mediums. Such as posters on my wall or the art blocks. Earlier this year I saw these cool magnet 8×6 frames that can stand on their own, and thought it would be cool to gets some prints made and display some art on my desk, or shelf, or wherever. Here’s a few examples. I only got the package of 3 frames for now as a test. But I made about 40 different 8×6 prints and I can swap them around as needed.

Drawtober 2026 is just around the corner, so next week I might start thinking about my plans.

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That catches us up to current. Next post I’ll have more comic book news. What I’m currently reading, week to week. Maybe some collection stats. What’s up-coming. Also I went to Fan Expo back in Feb, and I’ll share some of my photos from that event and the artists/writers I met and work I got signed. It was a lot of fun.

G’night.
Rogan

Make It Go Round

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Happy Mother’s Day, space lord, mother mother.

May Sketch Some Days
What I’m Playing
Reading is fundamental
On the screen

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Finally got the ol’ computer turned on to do some drawing. It started with the latest Flash movie trailer showcasing Supergirl, and I should never turn down an opportunity. So that’s how the ball started rolling:

Then May hit. Last year I tried my best to take part in the “May Sketch a Day” challenge and made it nearly 20 days through uninterrupted. This year I wasn’t going to honestly try but I knew I wanted to participate in some form, so I called it “May Sketch Some Days”. But honestly they’re not even sketches. Just proper drawings:

So we have Cortana to start, which I was really happy with. Darth Talon, missing some colour. And then I have a Red Sonja work-in-progress. Last year I had set out to complete the full month as I was limiting myself to 1hr drawings to prevent burnout. Since I only completed 20, this year I basically picked up from where my last year’s list ended, and just kept going. Plus added a few Star Wars characters for May 4th. We’ll see how many I get through this month. Also eager to do more colour work as I promised myself I would a few months ago.

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So far this month I’ve completed Hi-Fi Rush and Ravenlok.

Ravenlok was a quick playthrough, wrapping up in 5 hours. It’s basically a twisted Alice In Wonderland. Straightforward puzzles, combat and some RPG quests. Neat pixel-texture art-style. Easy 1000G completion too.

Hi-Fi Rush as I mentioned last month is an attack-on-the-beat style action game with platforming elements. It has funny dialogue and an enjoyable story that’s PG enough for my son to watch me play. It’s also very colourful. There are some collectible achievements that I wont be going back for, and the difficulties achievements don’t stack, which is lame.

The game is like Devil May Cry, in that every level is graded based on your completion time, score, continues, and timing. I’m not great at beat timing so I’m always performing poorly in that category, but the game luckily allows you to brute-force your way through, mostly un-impeded. But it seems unfair that I’m getting A’s on every stage, but then the final score is C! The math doesn’t check out. I understand its because my timing score and deaths hurt the final score, but still! I made a meme because I was so mad!

Still love the art style.

Still slowly progressing through Gotham Knights as well in co-op, but now that I’ve wrapped a few games, I might need to invest more in The Witcher III. But I also have Biomutant, Atomic Heart, and the new Star Wars Jedi game in my immediate queue.

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So a few books have completed their run over these past few weeks:

  • Clear
  • Batman and the Joker: The Deadly Duo
  • Hulk (Ottley/Cates run)

My plan is to slowly widdle down my weekly book titles, as my last count was around 36. Granted some are mini and maxi series, but I should try to get a little bit more choosey with new titles, and know when to stop with the on-going series.

I’ve also started reading Bleach through the VIZ app, and watching the manga concurrently as I found that they had added all 26 seasons to Disney+.

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And on the screen, big and small:

  • The Witcher S2
  • Ted Lasso S3
  • Bleach
  • AIR
  • You People
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

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See you again before the end of the month with more drawings (fingers crossed)
iRogan

Do It Yourself

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This year one of my goals is to colour more. I find I do a lot of detailed, inked, pin-ups, but then leave it at that. I always say I’ll go back and colour it but instead I just move on to the next drawing. I suspect this is because I colour infrequently enough, that the idea of it is daunting, so I always put it off. I’ve also lapsed on the Stranger Than Friendship comic for almost a full year now if I don’t get a new one out before April. I just need to sit down and think of some ideas. I did have one ages ago regarding Wordle, but I fear that fad has passed. Maybe I’ll do it just to get it out of my system.

So yeah, back to colouring – I think doing the colour step more regularly will help keep those skills sharpened, and allow me to work more efficiently as I continue to improve. And to make the idea of it less daunting. And less time spent on the actual figure/ink steps, so I don’t burn out.

With that, since this is the first update this year, I’ll share what I’ve done, in order:

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What I’m Drawing

Fenyx Rising

I started this year playing Immortals Fenyx Rising (more on that below in the gaming updates) and I really enjoyed the art style, so I kicked off the first drawing of the year with Fenyx herself. This version is her most basic starting gear before I even realized the many, many, different customization options available. I do want to colour this piece, but I may go back to the gear design first (there’s so many more ideas).

Lollipop Chainsaw
The Gwen Who Laughs

Another quick drawing, in Lollipop Chainsaw. And a work-in-progress update of The Gwen Who Laughs. As it had been a while since my last Spider-Gwen variant I figured it was time (my wife would say never again is too soon), and the idea of a Batman Who Laughs version was really intriguing to me. Very fetish, latex look. Corset and belts. Very harlequin type look. Could pass for a Harley Quinn variant instead almost. It was after struggling with this WIP that I decided to take a break and focus on more colour for a bit.

Modern day Miss Bravo
Mercedes Mone
Supergirl

Gender bent Johnny Bravo. Modern day Miss Bravo if you will. There’s actual an episode where Johnny Bravo does get turned into a lady so that he knows what it feels like to be hit on incessantly.

Sasha Banks / Mercedes Mone. Former WWE wrestler who made her debut recently in New Japan.

And Supergirl. Got excited after watching the most recent Flash movie trailer, with Michael Keaton and the reveal of the new Supergirl.

So yeah, colour. A little less focus on the ink outlines. After the sketch is cleaned up, I basically just jumped right into colour. And a simple background. Supergirl probably has the most detail as I did a semi-rough ink version to go with it. The other big change is I am working 100% in Photoshop for these which I don’t typically do. I usually sketch and ink in CLIP and then move over to PS if I need to for colour. But it felt kind of refreshing to stick with the one program and explore some new brushes. Hopefully more to come.

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What I’m Playing

Immortals Fenyx Rising: A very solid adventure game, very much like Zelda Breath of the Wild. In art style and gameplay. This is the game that’s kept me the most busy between January – February.

The game is a very vibrant soft coloured game and there are lots of different arena and puzzle style challenge rooms to mix up the standard-type combat. Ability to fly and ride a horse for traversal. And the collectibles usually involve some sort of challenge puzzle as well. Story is decent, and a good length – a humorous take on the Olympus Gods and Titans stories. Basically a big evil has been released and has turned everyone to stone and taken away the godly powers. Zeus and Prometheus are the two narrators of the story. Prometheus is more of the lead storyteller, and Zeus provides his colour commentary. Telling the story of how this mortal, Fenyx, will save the day. Combat is fairly easy to understand once you get used to the light attack and strong attack button mapping.

As I mentioned above, there is a lot of customization options with the gear you unlock throughout. Each gear item has its own perks, etc, but you can always change the look of that gear while it’s equipped to another style, if you wanted to stick to a theme, but needed the perks.

Roughly 40hrs to beat the story, but I didn’t stick around to finish all the various dungeons, or DLC packs.

Returnal: Returnal which was a PS5 launch title exclusive was recently ported to PC and I wanted to give it a try. I’m not a big fan of rogue-like games. But I thought I’d give it a shot.

I understand the appeal of the genre, and this game is gorgeous, and from a die-repeat-die-repeat perspective it’s not actually that bad. It is, however, difficult, and that was a turn-off. I understand that this genre does require a certain level of difficulty to ensure the player improves and advances and unlocks new stuff, but I unfortunately don’t have the time to dedicate to a game like this when I have so many others in my queue. A friend invested over 100 hours into the grind, and still hasn’t “finished” the story. That’s just not my style. So, I am content with the fact that I did “trial” it, but it’s not for me.

Somerville: A quick 4-hour game, like Limbo, or Inside. Same idea, with the puzzle mechanics that allow progression. A cool alien invasion story too. And very cool looking – I really liked the art direction with this one. And its a little bit more 3D level design than those of its kind. Which made it a little bit clunky to play, but still fun.

Far Cry 6: Oh man, finally, finally, knocked this story out in co-op. There’s one thing that can be said about playing in co-op with ILLESTRADER, and that’s when we start a game, we know it’ll take like 6 months to finish. Since we only get a few hours per week, if we’re lucky, and that if we play that game. Sometimes we switch it up, like jumping into Halo Co-op campaign, for example. But it feels good to say we finished the campaign. I think our next outing is Gotham Knights, but we’ll wait for the next sale. In the meantime, we’ll play through some of the DLC in FC6 and some more achievement collecting.

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What I’m Reading

  • Less: A Novel
  • Grayson: Agent 37 Omnibus

What I’m Watching

  • The Last of Us (HBO)
  • Andor

Be good.
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-iRogan