Web Worthy.

It’s all Frisbees and intrigue in this week’s instalment over on Babayka-Lives.

Speaking of which… maybe it’s a little nerdy of me, but I kind of get a kick out of the fact that my web-comic has started to appear on search engines. What with a slight rise in readership figures this month, and now finding myself Google worthy, it’s a big buzz to know people are reading (and hopefully enjoying) my work. It‘s still very early days for Babayka-Lives (I’m still a baby-bird of a web-comic), but I’d like to think I’m picking up steam now. Finding my feet, as it were.

I kind of wish the next search result down wasn’t so morbid, though… but there you go…

Happy Zombie Jesus Day.

This Easter, instead of chocolate eggs and hot cross buns, me and a couple of friends decided to dine on the notorious cheese burger pizza that a certain big UK pizza company have just put out. While I thought it tasted a bit hit-and-miss, and I’m not sure if it’s even possible to improve on the basic concept of the wonder that is a pizza, it was still a nice junk food treat. Not sure if I can ever see myself ordering one again, however, but I’m all for Frankenstein style pizzas. Next, I wanna see someone incorporate Nachos into the DNA of a pizza. Maybe with some kind of guacamole\sour cream pizza sauce  thrown into the mix. I’m not gonna lie, I’m tired of dipping.

Be sure to tune into Babayka-Lives.com tomorrow where the trap tightens around our poor unsuspecting bachelors.

Currently Reading.

I’m currently reading The Conspiracy Against The Human Race. I’m only part way through the first chapter so far, and it’s good, if a little grim and po-faced. I’m 34-pages in, and so far it reads like an anti-self help book or something. I’m hoping the tone is going to lighten a little as I read on, or this book is going to be hard going to complete. Not that I haven’t found this book pretty interesting thus far.

I’ve been checking out those smiling hedgehog pictures that have been doing the rounds on the internet lately to even things out. When the book becomes too much of a downer, I just look at this picture and suddenly every thing seems a little better in the world.

Yana Selfie.

I posted this pin-up on my DA page a couple of days ago, as my account hit the big 10,000 mark. I haven’t drawn Yana for a while, so doing this shot was a big thrill for me. I’m not gonna lie, I’ve kind of fallen under the spell of the recent craze of sexy girls taking selfies of themselves. Yana being a beautiful, young girl barely in her twenties, it didn’t seem out of character for her to get in on the act, also. Once I had the idea a few weeks ago, I knew I had to draw it. I think this shot came out ok, actually. I spent ages trying to get the body languages just right. I think this is one of my favourite drawings I’ve ever done of Yana.    

Still not a 100% sure if there will be a Babayka: Book 2, but if there is, I will differently put the above pin-up in the extras section. Will probably throw in my web-comic header, too, so people can have a printed physical copy of that as well. Anybody still hungry for Yana pin-ups should check out the graphic-novel. I drew an exclusive Yana, Vera and a mystery third guest share a bath pin-up in the back of the book.  

Speaking of Vera, there’s no Yana in this week’s instalment, but Vera and Klara both pop up. (Since I’m namedropping a lot of Brides in this week post, I’m gonna end by putting this helpful girls character sheet link in, so people don’t get too confused about who’s who.)

Enjoy The Silence.

And so our group goes trekking off silently into the distant in this week’s gripping, if slightly quiet instalment. I have to say this is one of my favourite pages from the whole book. Originally, the characters were never meant to leave the hotel in the first draft. You were never meant to see the surrounding location. I’m very glad I change my mind on that subject. What’s a good horror story without a creepy ghost town to set it in, right?   

Just a quick update on my deviantart page hitting 10,000. I’m at the time of writing this just 42-hits shy of the target. The special pin-up I drew just for this occasion has now been clean up with an eraser, scanned, cleaned up digitally in photoshop, and resizes, and is currently sitting on my computer desktop, ready to go. So please feel free to pop over to my DA page any time soon and bump up that number. As I’ve recently revealed over on my DA page, this pin-up stars one of the main characters from Brides Of Babayka, doing something that’s very trendy right now (but will probably have gone out of fashion by the time I get to post it.)