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Description OKAY. I have looked at this picture far too long, and I am almost at a part where I do not like any of it anymore, but I worked hard on it (THREE DAYS PEOPLE, THAT'S A RECORD FOR ME), so I'm putting it up here. I was experimenting. A LOT. I tried textures instead of cell shading to see how much I could still convey, I tried flat colors, I tried a lighter style of inking, I even drew SMALL. I also drew MECHANICAL THINGS (the video game box). So, there was a lot here that was newish to me, and a lot of me experimenting and going, hmmm, will this look good? And taking a dive and hoping it will.

In anycase, the core of the picture I still like. Zach is a dork, and gets way into lightgun games when he plays them, dodging and moving around like it'll help him shoot the zombies better. Jurek, though his friend, can't control his grumpiness and makes fun of him for it. Because that's just how Jurek is. But don't worry, Zach takes him with a grain of salt.

I can't tell you how different this looks from the original that was playing in my head, but oh well. It's done, and I hope you at least enjoy it! Even though I might've hemmoraged making this drawing, I enjoyed the ride.

Font is Zud Juice from acidfonts.com, the title is from Jump by Van Halen.

PS: my cat is trying to eat my screen. Make him stoooop.

EDIT: Got rid of the texture on Zach's pants after a suggestion to tone down the textures stuff, and I like it better. SO YAY. Thanks. X3
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Comments: 133

junon [2006-08-18 19:05:08 +0000 UTC]

Image just oodles charisma, this thing would selll like hotcakes on t-shirts

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vert-is-ninja In reply to junon [2006-08-18 19:06:59 +0000 UTC]

You think so? Maybe I should submit it to threadless.

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junon In reply to vert-is-ninja [2006-08-18 20:21:59 +0000 UTC]

i see no reason not to

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NibbleKat [2006-08-18 18:21:31 +0000 UTC]

Dude, the guy on the left is HOoooooooooootttttt! I like 'em snarly and pokey-haired. GREAT picture.

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vert-is-ninja In reply to NibbleKat [2006-08-18 18:27:54 +0000 UTC]

Why thank you! If he knew, he'd be soooo flattered!

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sashamya In reply to vert-is-ninja [2006-08-18 20:40:32 +0000 UTC]

see?see? soon as they get claimed O: scientifically proven fact. *waves pointy stick, but mostly as a show of love*

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Kurolee [2006-08-18 17:41:36 +0000 UTC]

Aw, i look like that when i play shooting games. D: Does that mean i'm not cool?

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vert-is-ninja In reply to Kurolee [2006-08-18 18:07:13 +0000 UTC]

You're cool to me!! Jurek's just an ass.

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Kurolee In reply to vert-is-ninja [2006-08-19 05:09:50 +0000 UTC]

YAY!

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peppinochus [2006-08-18 17:35:23 +0000 UTC]

this pwns on like every single level possible.

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LifEternal In reply to ??? [2006-08-18 17:30:24 +0000 UTC]

I love the speech. So real.

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hyperionwitch [2006-08-18 17:05:42 +0000 UTC]

This looks awesome! Just...everything looks great. Colors, textures, poses...yes.

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dana-redde [2006-08-18 16:25:17 +0000 UTC]

LOVE. SO MUCH.

Really, I like this style, with the inking and the coloring, perhaps you are on to something. I keep going back and looking at it again I'm a sucker for textures/patterns that purposely don't follow the shape of the body. Hee, I love the boys, espcially their faces. I fell in love with Zach as soon as I laid eyes on this. I mean, I always liked him before, but now our love is cemented foeva. Only thing: their feet may be a tad small, and Zach's fancy foot looks a little wonky

I think the only shoot-em-up game I ever played was Time Crisis for Playstation. Came with a big 'ole gun and everything. Of course, my cousins and I, rather than play the game, set it to "test mode" so we'd get the loud BANG no matter where we aimed, and then spent many hours play-massacreing each other in the basement and dying in dramatic ways. We are demented.

Tell me Jurek is wearing a pretty little ankle bracelet XD

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vert-is-ninja In reply to dana-redde [2006-08-18 16:29:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the critique! It helps, and I'm glad you love Zach so much. I admit, I have a soft spot for dorky blondes!!

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dana-redde In reply to vert-is-ninja [2006-08-18 16:32:31 +0000 UTC]

Haha, I'm sensitive to feet because it's a mistake I ALWAYS make. I have a bad habit of using my own bodily proportions on my characters, which doesn't work so well, since I have ridiculously tiny hands and feet and most of my characters are lanky men XD
Dorks are love

OH MAN I just noticed your sig XD +100.
SAN DIMAS HIGHSCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

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vert-is-ninja In reply to dana-redde [2006-08-18 16:46:37 +0000 UTC]

Yes!! I'm madly, MADLY in love with Bill S Preston Esq. If he were real, I'd gladly date him/marry him/have his chilren, etc. For reals.

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ronaika [2006-08-18 16:12:12 +0000 UTC]

now, what program do you use? Your lineart is so clean and sharp, I love it.

I like this....
<3

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vert-is-ninja In reply to ronaika [2006-08-18 16:14:02 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I use Photoshop CS2 for this one, but I really have a preferance to bouncing between it and Illustrator CS2. God bless Illustrator!

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ronaika In reply to vert-is-ninja [2006-08-18 16:17:36 +0000 UTC]

hmmm, thank you
I'm still learning open canvas. My style is way too sketchy for my liking. But, I very much love the cleanliness of your lineart....

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aluminiumdonut [2006-08-18 16:06:58 +0000 UTC]

MAN I am digging that colour scheme. And the game is awesomely drawm. You manage to have all the nesssecary technical things but retain style. And that's rad.
I love Zach's wacky-ass pose. And his tummy is just ASKING to be poked.

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vert-is-ninja In reply to aluminiumdonut [2006-08-18 16:14:29 +0000 UTC]

Aww thanks! Yay! I win on machines! I had to look it up on google, cos as much as I play the games I forget what they look like. >_>

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zoemoss In reply to ??? [2006-08-18 16:06:44 +0000 UTC]

hahaha

I really don't know what else to say, except "win".

so... YOU WIN.

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KaleiC In reply to ??? [2006-08-18 16:05:31 +0000 UTC]

He does look like a dorkwad XD But he's cute so it's okay. Stop lookin at it! Don't let it go sour in your mind! The same thing happened to me with a pic jus 2 days ago.

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Juniormints In reply to ??? [2006-08-18 15:57:03 +0000 UTC]

I like the colors! FAV!

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cloves [2006-08-18 15:54:19 +0000 UTC]

I swear jumping and dodging helps!

Really like the textures, I have started...attempting to use them...

Swear, working on something for three days makes you see everything that is wrong about the drawing and nothing right.

Woo nice job on the machine though...it is all technical looking.

(Talk about a critique! amirite? >.<

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vert-is-ninja In reply to cloves [2006-08-18 15:55:51 +0000 UTC]

Awww thanks a bunch! means a lot! I'm glad the machine looks good. Technical things are the bane of my existance.

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alblage [2006-08-18 15:52:02 +0000 UTC]

Woah, this is really cool. I like the flat colours and the textures. And the machine looks ace, because machines in general are kind of hard.

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taintedsilence [2006-08-18 15:41:40 +0000 UTC]

but he looks like such a CUTE ass!

The colors really work well with the flat coloring, I think you managed to give it depth without shading. My only crit would be that Jurek's right leg looks a little wonky. But I could be making things up.

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vert-is-ninja In reply to taintedsilence [2006-08-18 15:54:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I didn't really like his legs either, but I couldn't place it, but I think you're right. It's his right one. @__@;

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ametes [2006-08-18 15:25:08 +0000 UTC]

Ooh I love the texture use. Great piece. X3

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Ikar1kun [2006-08-18 14:50:58 +0000 UTC]

XD so true....

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ninamo In reply to ??? [2006-08-18 14:24:17 +0000 UTC]

I actually like everything about this piece - the colors, the composition and the subject. Also, Zach is very cute, as is Jurek.

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EsKo-Mo [2006-08-18 14:21:46 +0000 UTC]

Haha!
This is quite nice. I really like the colours and the look of this.

(Btw, I look pretty cool when I use a light gun.)

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dolle [2006-08-18 14:19:09 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha, I love Zach's pose and the cute 'lil shading on his elbows, squeesquee.

The machine and gun (gun especially, -envy-) look great, and I really like the tones you picked, especially the one for Zach's shirt and the crosshatching in the machine. I also like how you mixed your usual flat tones with a little bit of softish shading here and there, it was a nice effect. Also that font looks very professional, you business associate, you.

I- I'm super bad at these, but my friend Matt must have like spent his childhood in an arcade because he can beat EVERY SINGLE ONE I've seen him, it's crazy.

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vert-is-ninja In reply to dolle [2006-08-18 15:07:29 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, that's awesome, thank you so much! Your comment means a lot especially since everything was practically new to me!

I'm bad at them too, but I love them just the same! It's like a curse!

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madonnawayne [2006-08-18 14:06:58 +0000 UTC]






i want to take jurek home with me >.>

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vert-is-ninja In reply to madonnawayne [2006-08-18 15:07:38 +0000 UTC]

Hahahaha! Beware! He's grumpy~!

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madonnawayne In reply to vert-is-ninja [2006-08-18 15:30:16 +0000 UTC]

All the more better!

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cbilladeau [2006-08-18 13:35:15 +0000 UTC]

-grin- I have friends who do the same exact thing.
In any case, this is marvelous. The colors all blend together so nicely.

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ohsnap-son [2006-08-18 13:31:25 +0000 UTC]

I think the solid colors look great, and so do some of the textures, except some of them might be kinda loud, like the striped shirt (though if that's what your going for, then it worked)

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Boshudolor In reply to ??? [2006-08-18 13:16:59 +0000 UTC]

hahaha. oh the lovelyness

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blinking [2006-08-18 12:46:17 +0000 UTC]

Kafabulous, and you know it. Jurek + bowling = win. For an experimental piece it's as well executed as ever.

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Elvire [2006-08-18 12:35:04 +0000 UTC]

I totally love your color and the "body language" of the all thing !!
It's always like this when you spend a lot of time on a drawing. At some point, you begin to hate it with all your heart and your brain (especially if you advance as a blind man and do et redo all the fives minutes)
But at least, it's always with this kind of drawing you learn the MORE

And yeah Zach is totally a Dork (just can stop seing the scene and laugh) but you know, Dork is totally LOVE in this case !

Aaah I love this drawing !!

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vert-is-ninja In reply to Elvire [2006-08-18 15:08:44 +0000 UTC]

Awww, thank you! Means a lot coming from you, and man it must be an artist's curse to hate what you work so hard on!

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Ravlei [2006-08-18 11:22:16 +0000 UTC]

Zach reminds me of myself in this picture a little too much. XD Because I often do that. <_<;

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Somnilocus [2006-08-18 10:40:45 +0000 UTC]

You did a great job with the poses. Very stylish piece.

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illjules [2006-08-18 10:39:32 +0000 UTC]

okay, seriously? I fuckin' turn my gun sideways and glock it gangster style when i'm on House of The Dead.

for lightgun action and always satisfying vert goodness.

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vert-is-ninja In reply to illjules [2006-08-18 15:09:04 +0000 UTC]

DUDE. You are my new hero. I'm doing that next time.

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MuseLitTheFuse In reply to ??? [2006-08-18 10:34:07 +0000 UTC]

I love the expression on both of their faces! And I love how Zach's legs are bowed with his toes turned in. Jurek's pose looks very natural sitting in one of those horribly uncomfortable chairs. "Favorite."

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murder-scene In reply to ??? [2006-08-18 09:26:15 +0000 UTC]

ugh, i'm like that....i move around, thinking it'll help.
yet, i know it won't.
i'm notorious for doing that when in arcade driving games?
yeah...

now, onto the picture...
this is beautifully done...and i LOVE zach's pants. can i have them?

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