Where have I been?

Working on the following! The ridiculously large amount of crap to follow should more than make up for waiting over a week to post again... surely.Cute little gaming couples vignettes for Valentine's Day! I was asked to do a banner for the One Duck's Opinion blog, so I've spent much of the last week planning and sketching for it. Above we have Luigi failing pathetically to set up a picnic basket for himself and his sweetie, Daisy. I love Luigi, he's such a loser.


Then we've got Peach, who has baked a cake for Mario for the hundred thousandth time. He still pretends to be surprised, and eats it anyway. You'd think she'd buy him a card or something. Jeez.



I did not want to draw this couple. I drew this couple against my will. None but Sally should ever be that close to Sonic, dangit, I don't care if she never appeared in the games. Arrgh. Anyway, I got my tidbit of vengeance by giving Sonic the one thing that could distract him from any woman - a chili dog. I think this is my favorite picture out of the group - it was the first I drew, and I feel it got the most attention and detail. Frankly, by the time I got to these next two, I was burnt the hell out.
Just don't look directly at Zelda's face, or too closely at Link's tights, and this is an okay picture. Everyone focus on how cute it is that he made her a necklace from those otherwise useless stones!
Finally I squeezed it all onto a lame background I pulled out of my ass. Man, I shoulda put some trees in there or something, but I wanted it to be simple enough that the characters would be the main focus. Note to self: Work on some freaking backgrounds. Guh.

In any case, there is more junk waiting to spill out of my sketchbook, but for now I think I'm gonna sleep before my eyes melt completely out of my head.