Fly the Vampire Bat

Recently I've been looking at the work of japanese artist Satoshi Okano who is best known for his work at SEGA more specifically Samba De Amigo, Billy Hatcher, and of course Sonic the Hedgehog. More specifically the art he made during the era in between the Sega Saturn and Sonic Adventure 1. One character he made while working at SEGA that stood out to me is Fly the Vampire Bat, a seemingly original character Mr. Okano made during the development of SA1. So like any artistic nerd would, I HAD to draw him! Adding my own personal touches too it without straying to far from the original design.

 ~MrJrC

Artistic Crisis.

A bit of a more serious blog post but it's something I've been meaning to get off of my chest for a while.

I've been going through a bit of a crisis when it comes to my artwork, if there's something you need to know about me is that I'm a massive perfectionist, anything that looks off to me even if it's very minor I scrap it and leave it on the cutting room floor. Along with me feeling like I rush my work just to put it out there for people to give me grace and love when that's not helping my creative process.

It's why I rarely do stuff I wish to do, because I always wonder "Will this become popular or will It flop and I'll remain in obscurity." I never tend to break put of my comfort zone often and it causes me to play things WAY to safe, and it lead to things being stale. I wish I wasn't chicken and could break free and be able to experiment without feeling like I'm constantly being judged.

I want to draw stuff not just for you guys but for most importantly, me.

 ~MrJrC

The Various Expressions of Mr. Wulf

So I realized that my expression game has been.. halted for the most part. So I decided to use one of my more toony characters Mr. Wulf himself! mostly using model sheets from stuff like Lupin the Third and Tom and Jerry. also with some of my additional touches to make it work in my current style.

 ~MrJrC

Drawpile Doodles 1/?

So since I currently don't have the proper motivation to do full art pieces 24/7 as much as I used to have, I've resorted to simple doodles using Drawpile! It's honestly been a very useful as a digital sketchbook for me (especially since I don't really draw much in my actual sketchbook anymore haha). I normally post these on Bsky but it felt a bit unfair to not have some of them up on there so lemme share a few.

These first few were drawings from a live stream I did last Saturday (which you can check out the VOD here! I'll admit I did end up sounding a bit more quiet so you'll mostly only be able to hear my friends talking over me ^^;)

Next few were doodles I've drawn from yesterday and today, mostly Sonic related due to me wanting to make sure I didn't forget how I would draw the Sonic characters. along with a doodle of my friend Puck's fursona :D

And finally some late night doodles of Stitch and Reuben from the Lilo and Stitch series and Shadow the Hedgehog wearing a cool jacket, mostly inspired by Leon from Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.

Not sure if I'll make this a recurring thing on this blog but if I feel like it I might.
 ~MrJrC

Jigen the Tigger

So here's a pretty odd post, a while back I was looking for a photo to use on Discord and Bsky and remembered this one edit fellow artist Travis Bickerstaff made of Winnie the Pooh and friends dressed as the cast from Monkey Punch's Lupin the Third. The one that stood out to me the most was this one of Tigger dressed as Jigen Daisuke. 

Not too sure what drove me to this one specifically but I decided to make this my pfp.

Though that wouldn't be enough to satisfy me, I knew that eventually I would have to draw him so I whipped up a few sketches of Jigen Tigger, giving how this was my first time drawing Tigger and too a lesser extent Jigen I obviously had trouble getting it to work in my style, but eventually I managed to figure it out! 

Honestly very proud of how these came out, even if these were done mostly ironically haha.

 ~MrJrC

Julius Katz

So out of boredom I decided to create a new toony character, Julius Katz! a blue kitty whom I take obvious inspiration from Felix the Cat and a more obscure star Julius the Cat (explaining why he's also named Julius haha) I also tried to add some Tezuka influence while he's a little bit more Anime/Manga influenced while still retaining the Rubberhose influence. I also drew him a love interest but I might dedicate more time working on her before I unleash her to the public (or you could check out her concept art on my Bluesky lol)

I also tried to make a lineless sketch and it came out pretty well! If I ever decide to draw him in Flash I might give him a more navy blue coloring, I feel like it would fit him more. Still proud how it looks, really shows off his cute factor

  ~MrJrC

Tobi the Alien Model Sheet

So out of boredom and because I feel like he deserves one, I decided to whip up a model sheet for The Green Goober himself, Tobi the Alien! Mostly encase I (or someone who's more experienced) decide to model him in 3D, also so I can make sure things are semi-consistent whenever I draw him

 ~MrJrC