chillin' like a villan

ok so lately i have been dragging my feet, most of my time being split between playing basketball, random periods of sleep, occasional attemps to organize my work into a website, and too much time on the internet...(notice finishing my portfolio is conspicuously missing from that list, but that is another topic...) however my time on the net has not been a total waste of bandwith, in my travels i managed to stumble across wikipedia.org. the site is amazing!!!

i am sure i have used it before but maybe i just did not take note? it is basically a site where anyone (it supports over a 200 different languages) can create/edit information on any topic, it is not always completely accurate. some stuff is incomplete or from biased viewpoints (and it is usually noted if the article is sans references or incomplete) but from sports to astrophysics it is all there, likely every subject you could ever think of...

anyway i was reading a wiki about some comic books and i saw the work of alex ross, which prompted me to get a couple of his graphic novels...amazing stuff! so for the past couple weeks i have been going to library checking out other comics and related books, i have always had an affinity for comics but it got lost in the shuffle of my carousel of interests ,and reading and seeing all the content from the wiki just rekindled that previous attraction.


so with that as inspiration, lately i have been trying to mess around with painting, but not only is traditional painting messy, it is also a fairly expensive hobby, so photoshop and a wacom tablet are my tools of choice, trying to do stuff i do not usually do so i figured i try my hand at digital painting, this was the result...

reference pic