D'Artagnan & Company tumblr: it's a thing now ★
Ok I went ahead and did it! Now people don’t have to wade through drawings of fictional characters and cryptic made-up facts to get to the rest of my blog, which as far as I can remember is just robots, weird animations I found, and me reassuring people that I still exist.
BUT if you’re still interested in seeing them I guess you can follow this one too! Warning, I will probably use this as an excuse to get really worldbuildy every time I post something, which I try not to do here. But if you’re into that go ahead.
Right now it’s mostly things reblogged from here just to get them all in one place, but there are a couple of new things too.
I like how Gmail completely disregards the possibility that an email address might not belong to an actual person and assumes that “Human Resources” is just somebody’s name. And then puts me on a first-name basis with Human Resources.
Also, FALSE ADVERTISING, this is an autoresponder.
I don’t exactly remember when or why I drew this, but here are some pictures of Seamus when he was around ten and then around 14. Fun fact: Seamus has had fairly long hair for almost his entire life, with the brief exception of a period when he was thirteen and someone told him it made him look like a girl so he cut it all off. It quickly became obvious that short hair doesn’t suit him, so by the time he turned fifteen he had serious Kurt Cobain hair again.
I’m thinking maybe I should start a separate tumblr for this stuff so I don’t keep clogging everybody’s dash with darts junk forever and ever. Plus I want to start working on the actual comic over the summer, so I should probably keep it separate? I don’t know, we’ll see.
my very own chowder
More prints! This thing was the product of a really long, convoluted, and totally improvised process in which I just piled more and more ink on the plate in hopes that it would just continue making it look cooler. I think it turned out pretty well, though by the end there was so much ink on there that it’s been four days and these are still a little sticky if you touch them too hard.
I am a fan of nebulae.
hmmmm why had I not seen this until now.
(Source: themarysue.com)
No seriously Jon. I know nobody knows who your mom is, but I can guarantee if she were here she’d tell you to put a hat on.
A bunch of friends and I watch Game of Thrones together on tuesdays (or wednesdays in case of duress or finals, so nobody ruin anything exciting for me) and it’s become this whole event where we make bets on how many people will die and how many boobs will be visible. Sometimes there are other, weirdly specific bets made like “three zingers” or “one slap, not Joffrey.” Last week someone won for “one entertaining background event” with that scene where Jon spent the whole time looking really disheveled and uncomfortable in the background while other characters provided exposition. I remember none of what was actually said in that scene.
For my drawing class I had to make a “drawing machine” and I decided to make use of this link that’ I’ve had in my bookmarks for like a year and a half even though I could see no real reason to make one. So I made this little dude (its name is Walky-Draw) and had it walk through some paint and stuff. I had to make a video of it to turn in at the end so I guess you might as well get to see it, if you want to watch a tiny automaton walk down a ramp with ink on its feet and listen to the beginning of a Pink Floyd song.
Working with this small wooden robot was more difficult than most group projects I’ve had to do with actual people. I made a few videos before this one but I couldn’t use any of them because they were all full of me going “No dude, no, not like that, what’s your problem, why is it so difficult to walk down a hill, you were doing this fine yesterday, what’s different about now?”
In the end the results were mostly uninteresting, but the little guy was fun to play with. The instructions are up at that link up there, so if you want to make yourself a little walky bot you can click on that and also watch a video with much more dramatic music than mine.
Whoa guys another one!
Originally Wingnut had its other foot up on the windowsill there and was wearing the other boot, but then it slipped and the boot fell out the window and I couldn’t get to it.
Oh hey look I actually made something!
This was for my painting II class and senior group show; it’s oil on masonite. The robot’s name is Wingnut and I built it out of PVC pipes and plywood so I could set it up and pose it.
“Hey Thomas, check out my abs.”
(three hours of presentations on painting starts out okay but gets a little surreal near the end.)
I have this screenplay template saved on my computer from a high school creative writing class; I’ve been using it for this comic script I’ve been working on. I don’t remember when I started this, but the template came with a title page and the title “My Very Own Screenplay” as default, plus space for your address and whatnot, and it appears that the first thing I did upon starting this project was to replace everything with stupid.
For the record, “one day i took a ride etc” is a song sung frequently in my extended family when I was younger, “my very own chowder” is a really old inside joke involving an animatronic halloween decoration, and my name is “boobs.”
Hmmm I haven’t drawn anything doodly in a while have I? That’s because it’s Death Week again. you’ll get to see some things eventually!
How about this, in honor of the really horrifying episode of Game of Thrones I watched last night here’s a Joffrey I drew a long time ago and then forgot about.
Guys.
GUYS
LOOK AT THIS.
WHY IS IT SO CUTE
SO CUTE. OMG
I want one!
Scale this up about a couple hundred thousands times, stick some death star lasers on it and you have the cutest death machine ever built
It reminds me of robots from ghost in the shell
OH GOD IT’S A CYRIAK VIDEO COME TO LIFE
Hey don’t mind me, just reblogging nifty robots.
My favorite part of this is that baby, just because it means that somewhere there are babies growing up with robots rolling around their houses and that makes me confused and excited about THE FUTURE.
