John E C Art

This is where I'll be semi-regularly posting art. Say hi if you feel like it.

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I took some time out to draw Kyuzo from The Seven Samurai and gave him a tag partner in that other great samurai warrior Kirby. Though this must be American Kirby because he's angry.

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Found an image of a woman who was wearing long socks underwater for some reason. Drew her with an embarassed and awkward Tako from Parodius who is wearing a fedora like a redditor gentleman.

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I fell out of practice and have had to learn how to draw again. So I'm just drawing junk I find amusing. Like Nick Bockwinkel, Lou Thesz, Kid Dracula, Donkey Kong Jr and Tako from Parodius.

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Decided to give Conan a bit of local flavour. Sure he'd be up the ball alley batin' the heads off lads of a Sunday.

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Rough sketch/proof of concept for a silly piece featuring Wario and Waluigi up to no good by getting involved with the occult.

Waleister Crowley and Waphomet. Wahh!!

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I listened to this bird last year and didn't save enough. Now I'll need to sell plasma.

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After much digging in the Raccoon City mines I finally have some proper character art. So now I can get on with making the rest of my dumb but fun comic.

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Further experiments in the toon raccoon lab.

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Work in progress. It takes me ages to drill down and find the right look for something sometimes and I just have several rough iterations where I figure stuff out. The chubby Raccoon in the first image is the first time I got it right. Everything else was just me struggling but getting somewhere instead of going nowhere.

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I go into more detail in my previous post about the silly rumours that Romans spread about Christians worshipping a Donkey headed figure that had been crucified. Among other things.

I had to draw my version of it to get the image out of my head. I wasn't alone in this as one of the earliest surviving images of Jesus is a piece of Roman grafiti depicting him with the donkey head.

The image of the crucified Jesus is so common its lost its impact on me so it hit me how gruesome it is while drawing this and paying attention to the physicality of it. I felt sorry for poor Donkey Jesus.

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I recently read about how the Roman establishment spread ridiculous rumours about their then Christian minority back in the day. They claimed the Christians were a dangerous, subversive cult that worshipped a crucified man with a donkey's head. They also claimed the Donkey worshippers were into child sacrifice and incestuous orgies on the regular.

It filtered through my head and came together as this image of a Christian donkey head following a carrot. Maybe what the Romans thought their symbol would look like?

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Every now and then I become fascinated by the brief brilliance and madness Axl Rose showed the world. Such a strange creature.

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This is a really dumb joke about Axl Rose and I don't apologise for it.

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It is.

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A friend got this Road Warrior Grizzly Bear I drew as a tattoo on their leg recently. Which is pretty sick.

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How have we not domesticated these little punks yet?

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Found some pictures of rabbits doing flying kicks at each other and had to draw them.