Outcast Studios - LIVE DRAW NIGHT May 2011

So, last night at the Outcast forums, we had another one of our "Live Draw Nights", where a dozen or so comic fans spend hours drawing characters after characters.

http://outcaststudios.com/forums/

It's a very fun challenge, it provides such an interesting and challenging practice session.
It's divided into 4 hours, were we:
- Draw 5-10 minutes characters on the first hour
- We draw half hour sketches the second hour
- Had an interesting rule in the 3rd one, do a "costume swap"
- Finish the last 4th hour with a much more challenging and complete drawing, based on someone's cosplay (this time, it was a pretty professional Iron Man cosplay)

There were some very interesting choices amongst the subject, they weren't even all comic book-related!

Let's check out some of the pics I've drawn last night, if you please!

First Hour

We started with a 90s classic, with Judge Dredd!
I was taking it slowly at first (see face) then noticed the next challenge was already up and rushed through the body...

I'm kinda impressed I was able to draw this much of Zatanna in so little time :P
Always fun to draw Zee^^

A simple Captain America bust.

Marv from Sin City.
Could have been much better.. I should have inked some black spots on his jacket, just for contrast...

Ugliest Joker I've ever drawn...in a "not that really good"-kinda way...

Second Hour

Link, from the Legend of Zelda. First non-comic book character!
We had the choice amongst various Links, but giving me a choice, I had to take Cartoon Link over emo-animu Link...

Okay, I admit it, I had fun with this one.
I decided to draw a more retro Samus Aran from the old Metroid games over the current one...

Third Hour

The "costume swapping" challenge!
We had to pick a character from a list, put him/her into another one's costume and vis-versa.
Some guys at the forums had fun with Poison Ivy's costume and Colossus'. Ha, good times :P
I picked up Starfire and decided to put her into another Titan's costume....

...and Raven into Starfire's.
Ha :P
Kinda gives a completely different angle to both Titans gals, heh? :'3


Fourth Hour

Finally, the last one!
We had these kickass reference pics of a fan in a badass Iron Man cosplay.
I went with a more classic comic book Iron Man for the sketch.

And that is all from last night's 4 hours of LiveDrawNight~
Hope you liked it ;)

Why don't you even try joining in for next time? ;)

Gamin' NEWS! Metroid LIVE!

Well, not really live.
More like actors on CGi backdrop :P

Anyway, Nintendo revealed a cool "live" trailer for Metroid: Other M.
I've never really been into Metroid, my bro's more a fan of the series than me.
Though I do admire the concept and level design of the real past Metroid games. The sidescroller ones.
This new game from Team Ninja will be a big mix of 3D sidescrollin' action, FPS sequences and Ninja Gaiden-esque gameplay.
Good stuff!

Here's the live trailer:



A bit unusual for the big N.
Modern, gritty and Halo-ysh!

Gamin' NEWS! - E3 continues -

Hey gang!
Here's some new trailers, footage and screens from stuff going on at E3~

First of all, some gameplay of that new nth Dragon Ball fighting game.
I did enjoy older 2D DB games..then played and followed some of the 3D ones (Final Bout, Budokai 1-3, Tenkaichi 1-3...), but since they make a new one every year...I kinda lost tracks of all the many DB games...

This new one is called Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2. From what I understand, since they arrived on the HD system, the Dragon Ball games had kinda a reboot, on both current series.
Dragon Ball Z Budokai was remade into Burst Limit (so back to the plot and character roster of Budokai 1) and the Dragon Ball Z Tenkaichi Budokai series was also brought back as Raging Blast.

So if I wanna try a new DB with a correct roster and a well tuned gameplay, I should wait for Burst Limit 3 or Raging Blast 3 it seems...

Anyway, here's some gameplay, looking nice and correct, if a bit "plastic" like on the characters:




Now a bit of of Splatterhouse, my highly expected semi-remake semi-sequel to a classic beat 'em all series:




Some gameplay footage of Vanquish, Sega & Platinum Games new co-creation.
Looking like an epic mix of modern 3rd person shooters and P.N.03!




And now, some news about Sonic the hedgehog.
First some gameplay, the little we can see of Sonic Free Riders. The Xbox 360 exclusive.
Looks...messy. Not the graphics, they kinda look decent (hard to tell) but I'm not imagining myself playing that. Just imagine having to do those moves in front of your eyetoy Kinect.





This one will probably include some regular controller gameplay anyway, for those who'll want to try this game, let's be realistic. But the whole being the "Kinect control"...
*sigh*
I'll just play me some classic Saturn instead.


Here's some Sonic Colours gameplay now:



Well, forget about the autistic handicapped player here, it looks like it's the first time that guy played a videogame in his life.
The game looks pretty good and decent! Graphics are better than the Wii Sonic Unleashed!
This is turning into a pretty cool and enjoyable Sonic game! And isn't the main goal of games to be just that, entertainment?
Can't wait for this one~



Here's some footage of the Nintendo DS version, which really is in fact Sonic Rush 3 in disguise. And that will be good enough for me:






Moving on to Nintendo's own franchise now.
This new Metroid Other M sure is looking quite pretty, ain't it?
Seems to be a decent compromise of 1st view shooting action, not that far from the Metroid gamecube/wii trilogy, and 3rd person sidescrolling action like the original Metroid games!


Neat-o!




And now Portal 2, from the great studio Valve.
I wonder if this one will come out in 2011 or 2012, knowing Valve's legendary own relative time.



Seems to be more of the same ol'. Which is great since the original game was so original, addictive and smart!
This one does have a little horror vibe to it, with all the stuff and equipment abandoned.


And finally, for us fighting game fans, one of the coolest news about this E3, seems to be having finally some gameplay footage of Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Fate Of Two Worlds!

Once again, a kickass poster from artist Shinkiro!

The available characters in the E3 build weren't that many. But at least we have a nice enough look at Deadpool's first fighting game!
From what Capcom said, it seems like:
- Returning characters will have their original gameplay and special attacks back
- Dormmamu will be this game's main enemy final boss. I guess he'll have a giant transformation for the very last round~
- The fastest and more nervous VS ever (more thant MvC2 and Tatsunoko Vs Capcom)
- Every reason I love the VS series a bit more than the classical SF one, team-ups, changes/strikers/team strikes, super combos, etc.. 

Here's a new complete trailer:



And some gameplay video, to see how fun this one's turning out:





Looks like Deadpool will genuinely be funny, like he used to in his original comic series and in Cable & Deadpool. Not "retard"-like funny, how he is under Daniel Way writing.