Home Artwork E3 / Wii Fit Girl / Console Warz / Yoga Pants June 14, 2013 by Kerda | 0 comments So this week was E3, and the biggest news was obviously the inclusion of the Wii Fit Trainer girl as a character in the new Smash Bros. game. There’s been a weird degree of self-serious RAGEing over her inclusion, which is silly. SSB is perhaps the most joyously whimsical game franchise in existence, and I don’t understand how anybody could not love the inclusion of such a goofy, totally unexpected yet wholly-deserving (in terms of repping one of the most important Nintendo franchises of the last 5 years) character. Plus, yoga pants. What sort of monster could object to yoga pants, for Christ’s sake? Continue Reading → Categories: Artwork | Permalink Pretty Girls 6: Ethnic Minority Edition May 30, 2013 by Kerda | 0 comments So, hey, a new picture finally. Drew this over the holiday weekend, liked it enough to put it online. Like my last “Pretty Girls” entry, this began as an update to an old drawing, but ended up developing its own unique character. It was really the face that I fell in love with, after which point illustration of the body became perfunctory. That being said, I actually like the way the body turned out, and really enjoy some of the lines contained therein. The skirt in particular was a real test of my willpower, since my natural instinct when drawing lines that enclose a large, open space is to fill said space with as much…”stuff” as I can logically muster. I compromised obviously, giving an indication of her pelvic triangle and detailing the hem of the skirt, but trust me when I say that limiting it to even that took an agonizing degree of restraint. Continue Reading → Categories: Artwork, Girls, My Stuff | Permalink Back From The Dead (With An Old Drawing) April 18, 2013 by Kerda | 0 comments So, it looks like its been, ehhh…roughly a year since I’ve updated this site, because obviously. This isn’t even a new piece, sadly. I actually did this a few years back, and it was one of my first forays using my “New Style” (chronicled in painful detail here). I liked it well enough that it inspired me to begin regularly drawing again, and was the impetus for revamping my portfolio site, and you can see how well that turned out. Continue Reading → Categories: Artwork, My Stuff | Permalink Pretty Girls 5: A Contrast of Styles (1/2 NSFW) April 3, 2012 by Kerda | 0 comments In case all of my whimsical graffiti doesn’t hip you to what’s up, clicking on this drawing will take you to the full, uncensored version, which features bare breasts, and more than a hint of danger. Anyways, I’m coming to you today with two, TWO new drawings of girls, both of which I did last night on a whim and liked so much I figured I would post them. Now, on a technical note, you may notice that both of these pics are a bit blurry in comparison to all of the other stuff on the site, and that’s because they ended up getting drawn at a lower resolution than I usually work at. Both of these are essentially remakes of old, crappy drawings I’ve had laying around on my hard drive since years back, when I was on a noisy Pentium 4 system prone to overheating, and working off of a smaller, much lower resolution monitor. Since both of these drawings were done on a whim, I just began working on new layers within the original, low res files, and by the time they evolved into anything worthwhile I was too far along to really do anything about it. So, just think of these as, like…”Barbara Walters interview” art, where everything is soft and gauzy. Continue Reading → Categories: Artwork, Girls, My Stuff, NSFW | Tags: boobs, Mai Shiranui, NSFW, sullen young women who read Sylvia Plath poetry and contemplate sorrow | Permalink Bam Bam Bronson March 8, 2012 by Kerda | 2 Comments This is a picture of Queensbridge rapper Action Bronson, who’s been one of my favorites over the last year or so. Yeah, yeah, he sounds like Ghostface, but so what. Ghostface hasn’t really sounded like Ghostface since, ehhh….let’s say Fishscale back in ’06, so what’s the harm? Getting huffy over a young artist taking inspiration from a legend is silly. Nas blatantly appropriated the style, subject matter and demeanor of Rakim, but that doesn’t make Illmatic any less of a masterpiece. Continue Reading → Categories: Artwork, My Stuff | Tags: Action Bronson, bippin', boppin', hippin', hoppin' | Permalink New Comic November 17, 2011 by Kerda | 0 comments Hey, starting a new comic up, called Birdoh, about some birds. I’m hoping to be updating it at least 3 times a week, but, we’ll see how that goes. You can see subsequent updates on Birdoh.com, which right now is a barren wasteland of nothingness. Categories: Artwork, Birdoh | Permalink Pretty Girls 4: Warm Feet, Cold Heart July 24, 2011 by Kerda | 0 comments Did this drawing a few weeks ago, just never got around to posting it. Girls in panties is becoming a trend with me, it seems. I don’t have any really exceptional commentary for this piece. It came together pretty quickly on a Thursday evening, as I came to the conclusion that drawing > sleeping on a work night. It was the result of wanting to draw but having no real ideas in my head. So, I fell back on my old standby of “the ladies” (as I oft-times like to call them, typically while sporting a half-cocked smile and the first few buttons of my polo shirt unfastened, revealing a small tuft of billowing chest hair). I imagine this girl as being an exceptionally sleek female assassin, tasked with infiltrating an American Apparel shoot and taking out an unsuspecting Dov Charney, perhaps distracted during a moment of public self-pleasure. Categories: Artwork, Girls, My Stuff | Tags: Girls, underwear | Permalink Pretty Girls 3: Balding, Depressive Middle Aged Men Edition June 25, 2011 by Kerda | 1 Comment This week saw the return of comedian Louis C.K.’s awesome, awesome….awesome comedrama short film anthologicom Louis for its 2nd season, and I was inspired to do this surprisingly speedy drawing of his signature crimson-coiffed countenance. Alliteration-Ho!!! Anytime I read reviews of Louis, the critics always go out of their way to mention that Louis C.K. is “certainly no actor”, but that’s a large part of what makes the show so great. The sheer darkness of so much of the it’s subject matter would be overwhelming were it not for Louis’ tendency to always seem utterly baffled by the world around him. He manages to evoke a sense of innocence, alienation and cynicism all at the same time, which is pretty remarkable. A “real” actor trying to “feel the moment” would oversell most of the material, and would transform the show into something just crushingly sad. Plus, the first few minutes of this week’s episode is probably the funniest thing I’ve seen on TV all year. Categories: Artwork, My Stuff | Tags: Louis, Louis C.K. | Permalink inFamous 2: Pseudo-review + quickie drawing June 22, 2011 by Kerda | 0 comments I finished up inFamous 2 this past week, and figured I would post some thoughts, a review-esque retrospective. Think of it as a supplement to more detail-oriented “traditional” reviews. Simply put, I really love this series, which I think puts me in something of the minority. Developer Sucker Punch’s two forays into this world have both been met with complimentary, perfunctory 8/10 review scores and the polite golf clapping of the gaming establishment, but people don’t really seem excited about these games. And I think that’s a shame, because what’s being done with this series, though written off as solely iterative, is ambitious and progressive in it’s own unique, understated, unsexy way. Though their first big splash was with 2002′s Sly Cooper on the PS2, I’m firmly of the belief that Sucker Punch are a band of early 90s 16-bit developers who, during a freak accident stemming from a massive “Blast Processing” explosion, were frozen in time for close to a decade, only to awaken in the late 90s to a brave new world of polygons and disc-based media. Though their new games parade around in a shell modernity (sometimes awkwardly and unconvincingly), their hearts beat with the chiptune thump of antiquity. Continue Reading → Categories: Games, Ramblings | Tags: "Back in my day...", How Do I Shot Web, inFamous 2 | Permalink Pretty Girls 2: Meganekko Edition June 19, 2011 by Kerda | 0 comments So, I wasn’t sure I should ever even publish this picture, but I need a palette cleanse after that last piece, to start the week fresh. I did this a few months back, and it was really the genesis of my attempts to adopt a looser, more personally enjoyable approach to drawing (documented in painful detail in my last post), which is why it’s such a scrappy mess. I like it though, way more than a lot of more technically accomplished pieces. On a technical note, however, this is (sadly) one of the first pieces I’ve done where I focused on making it work when mirrored. It still looks better as presented, with the subject looking left, but it more or less works when flipped horizontally. It was interesting how effective flipping the orientation back and forth was in helping me figure out why certain things just looked “off”. I like the eyes on this piece, more than anything. There’s nothing terribly complicated about them, but I feel like they convey a certain sense of warmth that I really enjoy. That’s what I like the best about drawing, being able to scratch together a bunch of fundamentally meaningless marks that, when you get lucky, have the ability to convey something unexpectedly vulnerable and human. Her eyes make me happy. 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