I'm on Tumblr!

Hey folks!

Just wanted to let you know that you can find me on tumblr now! How exciting is that? My plan is to post minor sketches and doodles that would flounder on DA, flickr, here, etc. Follow me on tumblr and ride the awesome wave.

That's all for now!

~Drew

Ross Boston Promo Illustration

Hey folks!

Nothing too fancy tonight. Just a cool promo illustration of Ross Boston. Also, putting the new logo to use (with some changes made to it thanks to the helpful critique of my friend Reed Bond).

I will post this to DA tomorrow morning. For now, you blogger folks get to see it first!

Enjoy!

~Drew

Super-Gay Logo!

Hey folks!

 

For now, this is the logo for "The Super-Gay Adventures of Ross Boston." Custom-made in Illustrator.  Enjoy!

~Drew

Super-Gay Profile - The Blue Baroness

Hey folks!

Gotta be quick with today's update, in a hurry. It's The Blue Baroness!

The city's most notorious vigilante, drag queen superhero The Blue Baroness (commonly referred to as Blue) protects the downtrodden similar to the way the Bobslist Adventure Team does. However, her methods are often morally questionable. Blue has some kind of past with Wizard Wayne, but the two disagree and do their best to avoid each other. She develops a fixation on Ross, but her motives are unclear...

About the design: I created Blue about a year and a half ago just out of nowhere. She sort of just...popped into existence. I sometimes find myself referring to drag queens as real-life superheroes without powers...big and exciting and loud and in funny clothing. I don't remember where I stuffed the old sketches and I'll have to find them and post them soon, but for now I leave you with the single page of Blue I drew. I didn't need to improve upon the previous design much...just update it a bit to fit the scenario.

Alright, and that wraps up the character profiles! It has been a good week, and I hope you feel learned on all of my Super-Gay characters!

Take it easy,
~Drew

Super-Gay Profile - Brian Goddard

Hey folks!

Be prepared to be disenchanted, for today I give you the wholly unpleasant Brian Goddard.

Brian is Ross's boyfriend of two years. Things probably started off artificially well, but Brian is controlling and entirely unlikable and probably picked Ross as his partner understanding that he'd have no trouble keeping our hero on a short leash. When Ross is hired at the Bobslist Adventure Team, Brian (a manager at a video store that takes his job way too seriously) becomes jealous of his boyfriend's interesting new job and thus often attempts to get him fired. Because that's the kinda guy he is.

About the design: I was fortunate in that the very first sketch I did of Brian was the right one and I kinda knew it. He just sort of poured perfectly from my head onto the paper. There were a couple small revisions in the colored version but...really, it just worked! Brian is sort of gray and bland in contrast to the colorful cast of the story, and acts as a minor villain always getting in the way of the optimal performance of the Bobslist Adventure Team.

Alrighty, tomorrow you will be properly introduced to the mysterious Blue Baroness! Hope to see you here. ;D

Best,
~Drew

Super-Gay Profile - Nicki Noelle

Hey folks!

Say hello to a brand-new, unrevealed character in the form of Nicki Noelle!

Nicki Noelle used to live a life of danger, adventure, and intrigue back when she was the saucy sidekick to a handsome secret agent. But when this ex "Bond girl's" partner in super-secret justice fell in love with her and, due to her status as a lesbian, she could not love him back, she fled and found solace in the employment of the Bobslist Adventure team. Nicki can build and fix all sorts of interesting devices (having much experience providing a secret agent with all of his needed gadgetry). She is a super-intellect and sharp as a whip, rough and tough but still quite likable.

About the design: Nicki (whose name was Nickie during the initial sketches) was a bit of a challenge for me. I realize that I don't sympathize much with lesbians for various reasons so it was hard for me to come up with one that was not a gross, unpleasant stereotype. With the help of my friend Reed Bond, I realized that I didn't really need to stick with a stereotype to make her work. He helped me find inspiration in positive lesbian role models like Ellen DeGeneres and others, and I think it worked out well.

I have not designed Nicki's past secret agent look yet (probably something a little sexier and more classily-dressed) but look forward to that soon. ;D

Alrighty, tomorrow we will focus on Ross's unpleasant boyfriend, Brian Goddard. Be there or be straight!

~Drew

Super-Gay Profile - Sassquatch

Hey again, folks!

Today's featured character is the gay beast, Sassquatch!

Sassquatch, or "Sass" for short, is flamboyant but aloof. Hailing from planet Sasquatchewan, Sass is a master of disguise and is always prepared to don any identity to gain the upper hand. His disguises aren't very convincing but perhaps it is his uncanny ability to make others uncomfortable that gets him by.

About the design: I hadn't really considered it before, but a friend of mine mentioned the interesting thing about Sass's design is that he is simple, a blank canvas always ready to have some obnoxious outfit put on him. Ultimately, though, I decided that the purple underwear would be his default. It just seems right, the perfect balance of obnoxious and gay.

As an aside, I rarely laugh at my own drawings while drawing them. But the page featuring many different random images of Sass wearing various disguises is just particularly hilarious to me.

Alright, see you tomorrow with another character!

~Drew