ASK SQUEEDGE

Dreamcast is pretty cool! Uh, let’s see… good games for it: Jet Grind Radio (dated by its sequel, but still worth playing), Ill Bleed, Power Stone, Space Channel 5, Chu Chu Rocket, Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi, Rez, Cosmic Smash, and House of the Dead 2/Typing of the Dead. 

I get asked this a lot, and I’m going to be like, totally honest here. I can’t be assed. Seriously. I don’t know anything about screen resolutions and I don’t want to put the effort forth to crop/edit something that would look good as a desktop image. So SORRY, I AM LAZY.

Well… that’s what we’re trying to do. Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as just moving there, though. Otherwise I’d already be all nice and settled in. Immigrating to another country is a process that requires patience. 

They are supposed to look similar, although I try to have some variation in on the same idea. Think of them like… My Little Pony toys. I know that’s probably really weird, but FOR SOME REASON I like the idea of a bunch of similar characters with varying traits on the same basic idea, and I like them to somewhat match. Some might call that lazy or creepy or whatever, but for me it’s like “okay this is what a shark babe as drawn by Squeedge looks like.”

Also, I didn’t originally design Mayhem, so that might be why she stands out *shrug*

I think there’s enough differences between them, but I’m not going to list all the differences, because if people can’t see them then that means that either their not looking close enough or I failed to illustrate the characters properly. 

Thank you so much, anon. <3 

Thinking up good poses can be tough. To get started, I try to imagine a pose, and what kind of movement it’ll have, then I start with building up a gesture, starting with sweeping lines and building up a body on top. If it’s particularly tricky, I’ll do a bunch of small thumbnails of the pose until something looks right. 

If I have NO ideas for a pose, I poke through my references with something vague in mind, until I see a thing or two I like, and work off those images. 

It was upon my request. Not only do I not want those kind of images affiliated with the “Squeedgemonster” name, but most of it was pretty badly drawn. Not to mention, I feel pretty “ugh” about it, because I drew it as a desperate teenager hungry for approval/attention, rather than doing it out of my own interests. So it all just left a bad taste in my mouth.

I guess “atheist” in the broadest sense of the term, as I don’t believe in a higher power or any deities. I have some vague “spiritual” beliefs, but I don’t know if they fall in line with anything that I could name, and it’s hard to describe. I guess above all, I AM A MAN OF SCIENCE. 

Also I want a can full of tiny graboids :C

I do a lot of traveling, but it’s mostly back-and-forth from Washington to Canada. I’ve never traveled outside this continent, either, although some day I would LOVE to visit Japan.

I’ve mostly been around the states, but the only place worth really mentioning is probably California, specifically San Diego! Even though it was hot, it was a lot of fun. The San Diego Zoo is amazing, and I love the water front.

I’ve been following it from afar, but I have absolutely no excitement towards it. I’d love to be able to play it, if only to be able to really rip into it first-hand. From what I hear, it has some good things about it (atmosphere, weather, graphics, story), but yet again, it basically has nothing to do with Silent Hill. It is not a real Silent Hill game. The current developers do not know what they’re doing. I think they actually removed anything to do with the cult/mythos, and the monsters are terribly bland and uninspired. Not to mention, they changed the combat system AGAIN and failed miserably.

Also I might mention that the monsters drive an “evil” cop car. THE MONSTERS DRIVE A COP CAR. THEY ALSO HIRE A DJ, A REAL, NORMAL PERSON-DJ, TO SUMMON YOU OVER THE RADIO. 

Questions people should stop asking:

1. Anything already answered in the FAQ. Epecially “what program/tablet do you use to draw with?”

and

2. Questions about Renard. Not about what I do with/for him (i.e. PSURG or lapfox album covers), questions about HIM that are totally irrelevant to me and should be directed towards Renard himself.

Oh, and obvious stuff like “U DRAW ME PICTUR?” and the like. 

I do sketch for myself, but not nearly often enough. I’m really trying to get back into the habit of it, when I sketched constantly my work was more fluid, and getting “warmed up” was about a thousand times easier. It also motivated me to draw my own ideas more. I try to sketch every day, although I could be more persistent with it.

My grades varied a lot, but I was never very “academic.” I got by fine, but I struggled a lot along the way. It was hard for me to retain information unless I was invested in it (for example, passed with flying colors in World History and English courses, had to take U.S. history twice), I was constantly switched around in different special ED classes (mainly for dyscalculia but early on for speech and dyslexia), and for a while I lived in the hills where the education was abysmal. 

I do work besides Lapfox related things, and that, along with commissions and t-shirt/merch sales, make up my primary income.

I don’t study anywhere right now, although I am just dying to take some life drawing classes at the GAGE academy this Spring if I can.