johnnywander

happy birthday to meee

for my birthday I gifted myself a fun drawing of my OCs fighting to death 🥰

This North and Dhio! You may have seen them before, I've been drawing them for like 20 years lol

I think re-reading all of Dungeon Meshi in preparation for the anime and also watching the anime has been making me ruminate on the inherent narrative sensuality of violence and consumption! Also how much fun it is to draw shorthand for feathers

we're still playing bg3 (14)

THIS TITLE IS A LIE, we actually fizzled out in the middle of our second Baldurs Gate 3 playthrough pretty soon after we got to act 3 U___U Sorry Dark Urge Chiaki! We'll be reunited some day! I'm too enamored playing with Dragons Dogma Leeds right now!

ANYWAY this is a direct continuation of part 13, the one where Karlach empties her pockets. It's deceptive but this one took me way way too long to render!!! Rendering big areas of texture in a way that still looks "careless" is actually ...

GREATER SECRETS has a 25% off preorder on B&N!

Hi everyone, this is Ananth! Excited to share that my latest book with Tess Stone is coming out November 12th from Random House Graphic! And today B&N members can preorder it for 25% off with code PREORDER25!

Hardcover: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/greater-secrets-ananth-hirsh/1144883880?ean=9780593124857

Softcover: 2024-04-19 15:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post

BARBAROUS Chapter 9 is under way!!!!

Ananth and I are both working on thumbnailing chapter 9 RIGHT NOW!!! This part has been becoming more and more fun as we pass files back and forth and mess with each other's layouts like dolls in a dollhouse. Ananth hasn't really drawn a whole lot since he was a kid but he DOES have a really exceptional eye for dynamic layouts and this has been a great way for him to flex those muscles in a way that's really clear and readable.

I've been promising for a while I'll do a stream on Clip St...

The winner of the outfit poll is...

CALBRAITH! By 2% over Winter!!! Thank you so much to the 108 people who voted! It felt fitting to draw Alexander in Alexander McQueen! I hope Winter gets her time in the sun, but I was really happy that those two were the top contenders. I'll try to pick more unusual menswear in the future for these polls! (Also I'm open to suggestions! I have a folder going!)

To be honest, when I came across this outfit I'd just picked up a 2024-04-05 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS LOL

WOW I completely wound up doing this one by the seat of my pants, we came up with this idea THIS MORNING after realizing what today was, and then I was stuck out of the house for several hours LOL

ANYWAY HELLO, welcome to our new 100% serious incarnation of BARBAROUS!!! I grew up in the furry art internet so this was a treat for me, I need more opportunities to draw furries in my daily life!

In the end, I couldn't bring myself to draw Human Leeds so I just drew a sloppy regular Le...

POLL: WHO SHOULD WEAR THIS!

I was looking at some old Alexander McQueen runway pics and I wanted to draw something with BIG SHAPES and CLASHING PATTERNS!!!!

Here's the last winner! ✨ (So Hyewon and Cameron are exempt from this round)

And the important alternate version :)

2024-03-29 19:37:40 +0000 UTC View Post

oh no we started playing dragons dogma 2

OH NO finally a game where Ananth and I get to play as Percy with Leeds in tow!!!!! (player character Percy with helper npc Leeds)

We've barely started the game, but it's been really fun to run around with a gigantic handsome Leeds Catman. I'm really exceptionally bad at combat in this game but it's been really fun to hang back as an archer and let Leeds (fighter class) go and kill a bunch of things to protect me. :) The dream realized :) :)

2024-03-25 18:52:58 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 8 / Page 23 breakdowns

Yay, this was such a fun straight-forward shoujo page! Lots of tall panels with an emphasis on expression and nice amounts of negative space for introspective dialogue. No backgrounds, just bokeh (supplied by Hyewon). 

It was really fun to do Percy's slow descent into "maybe I AM evil?" Who knows, maybe there will be more of that in the future :) :)

As with the rest of this scene, this one was thumbnailed by Ananth. You can see that expression in panel 3 where the two of us h...

Happy (belated) Year of the Dragon!

Why did it take so long for me to finish this illustration, it's already March?

To my credit, dragons should be celebrated every day.

Thank you again to the folks who came and hung out while I inked this! I'm kind of relieved I didn't do any coloring on stream because for some reason I did like 4 color passes on this that I kept trashing so I get to keep my pride as a confident colorist who knows what I'm doing lol.

I just downloaded 2024-03-08 22:51:29 +0000 UTC View Post

we're still playing bg3 (13)

Thank you to everyone who came to the stream yesterday!!! I'll try to do them more frequently, it was super fun!

During the stream I was reminded that I actually have a few more of these Baldur's Gate 3 comics that I haven't shared yet! So here we goooo

One of my favorite things about running around with Karlach is that by the end of the game she can carry about 1,000 lbs of ~whatever garbage you've picked up off the ground~, in our case, a tremendous number of explosives...

It's a leap day! I'm gonna stream!

It's finally time, I'm gonna ink that Year of the Dragon illustration!!! I'm gonna jump on Twitch around 4:45 PM EST, just after Rook gets fed because he's yowling at me a lot right now. 🙂💦

See you soon!

I started playing Harvest Moon 64!!

Nintendo finally put HM64 onto the Switch for anyone who has a Nintendo Online membership! (it's in the N64 library) I've been really surprised over how much I've been enjoying it! (note: I've been using an off-brand N64 controller for switch which I really recommend)

I wanted to try and emulate the proportions and marker style of the original character designs. I'm not sure how successful I was but this was very fun! Here's what the original character designs look like:

2024-02-20 00:56:42 +0000 UTC View Post

HAPPY VALENTINES 2024!

Hi everyone, Happy Valentines Day from BARBAROUS!!! 💖💕✨

I had to put a hold on both doing the Year of the Dragon AND the livestream just because of the structure of the week so far - unfortunately having two people working full-time in one room means I can't do any sort of livestreaming when either of us has any sort of meetings lol. I'd like to get back to it though! SOON!!!!!

Take care and eat something delicious!

HAPPY YEAR OF THE DRAGON!!

WOOHOO, an excuse to draw my characters as dragons???? That's just a regular day, but it's nice to have it formalized. :)

Unfortunately I got completely waylaid by a slightly-on-fire freelance project and I wasn't able to finish this. I'd like to do it on stream if I can, it's been a minute!! Maybe next week?

In the meantime, have a beautiful weekend! 🐉💖

Chapter 8 / Page 22 breakdowns

YAY, it's the WE SHOULD KILL HIM page!! (this one was thumbnailed by Ananth! Thank you Ananth!)

This is supposed to be the turn in chapter 8 where it's like, "RIP Cameron, your ex girlfriend has stolen your girlfriend." Hyewon has learned about social impropriety and can't be normal about it. She's angelic but like, the kind of angel with swords.

All the colors from the previous scene have been turned up even further. It's properly evening no...

Percy & Leeds outfit turnaround

This is for a little side-project but I thought the lineart was cute enough that I should give it a color! I'm usually not a fan of greens but I think the lime green top really compliments the purple-representing-brown I like to use for Percy's hair. HMM...

Anyway i love making paper dolls whee yay yay

we're still playing bg3 (12)

OH NO I'm back posting these now that it's the new year!!! Hello!!!

The Wavemother Robe wound up being my favorite piece of armor in Baldur's Gate lol. Not because it's especially useful in a fight, but because it's a slinky evening dress that does tick healing when a character stands in water. So if you have a minute or two to throw a bottle of water on the ground and hang out admiring your characters' legs, everyone can get a full heal without using any spells or potions. Win for ever...

The winner is .... Hyewon!

With a whopping 34%, the winner of the new outfit poll is HYEWON!!! Percy and Cameron tied in a two-way second place at 17%. Thank you to everyone who voted for Leeds, he still came in a respectable third place at 15%. Good hustle, everyone. 🏆

I was super happy to see a full 100 people voted in this poll!!! Thank you!!!

I'm going to be honest, I was personally pulling for Cameron! He was in first place for the first day or so of the poll and I had high hopes! I compromised by d...

POLL: who should wear this!

It's that time again!!!! I'm going to pick an outfit and everyone gets to choose who wears it! I wanna draw a bodysuit!!!!!!!

Here's the winners of the previous outfit polls if you're new!