Michael Henderson

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2007-07-11T05:40:09Z

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Anyone coming from the Pokemonathon...

2007-06-29T04:49:29Z

If you are coming here to see some of my artwork, well, I don't update here anymore. You can check my Deviant art page at
http://yooki42.deviantart.com

or my website (which will soon be updated, I promise!) at
http://www.aorange.com/yooki/comicsforkids.html

or my blog at
http://yooki42.blogspot.com

Cool, thanks.

Some New Art

2006-11-28T20:39:42Z

Here's a girl walking along

This is just a thumbnail. Click on it to see the whole thing and 6 different colored versions!

Also a friend of mine from the QT:

Mostly I just post in my blog now at http://yooki42.blogspot.com so you should check that out.

Self Caricature

2006-04-03T06:20:37Z

It's okay, I guess

I think Bowser's the best part. I just don't think this really compares with all the ones my friends have done over the years. Also, because I just realized I hadn't posted any here, one of my comics I submitted to the school paper:

The rest are at http://yooki42.deviantart.com

I'm working on a few more LJ comics and trying to learn Flash from a book. Hopefully each will prove fruitfull in their...efforts? Labors? I don't know how that goes.

Caricatures!

2006-03-05T02:05:50Z

Today was the first day of work! I've ended up aquiring a bunch of new caricatures from my friends over the past few days, so I scanned some of my favorites.

Me like Pablo Picasso by Matt Raney
This one is actually a year old, but I still stand by the fact that this is the best caricature I've ever had drawn. It breaks every single caricature drawing rule, then makes up some rules and breaks those, but it still manages to look exactly like me. Of my many caricatures, this is the only one I actually keep hung up.
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John, Javier, and Me as the cast of The Little Mermaid by Lauren Hale
After 4 years of drawing it on other people I finally managed to get myself drawn like a mermaid. I feel so pretty. I especially like how different she was able to make John and I look (we are twins).

The rest of these are in a handy dandy
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Me in Escape from New York by Javier Gonzales
This is the best body I've ever had drawn on a caricature. Look at that shit. I told him to draw me in some kind of action/b-movie type of setting, so he drew me surfing with a machine gun on a tidal wave out of a giant whole through New York with a pimp in a convertable flipping me off on the side of the road. Awesome.
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Me in less than 2 minutes by Javier Gonzales
As a practice excercise we all had to draw a kid playing videogames in under 2 minutes. Javier, of course, drew me. This looks great, especially considering he wasn't even looking.
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Me hugging Max by Lauren Hale
Lauren didn't like this one because she messed up on my hand, but I like it anyway. That's a great picture of Max. Also, she threw in some acne at no extra charge.
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Me drawing by Matt Raney
I wasn't there when Raney drew this but I found it in the pile of practice caricatures. I think he added on about 120 pounds here for whatever reason, but I really like his use of lines in the face.

This is seriously one of the best jobs ever. It doesn't even feel like work. They're adding a bunch of new things to the park this year too, so I'm pretty excited.
Maybe one day I'll post a caricatures I've drawn.
MAYBE.

Me Time

2006-03-03T04:34:44Z

As research for his comic we've been asking anyone who visits the apartment what social class they would "do" if they could go back to any time in the world.
Raney still holds by flappers. What would you guys choose?

Me Time

2006-02-27T10:43:06Z

A lot of great stuff happened today, but I think I'll spread it out over a few diferent comics.
I cannot for the life of me find my good inking pen. The lines were really shakey on this because I was using some off-brand brush pen. WHERE ARE YOU FABRE CASTEL???? My goal hear with this color scheme is to blind as many people as possible before they get to the end of the comic.

From left to right here is Lauren, Jessica, Rachel, and Marrissa. Both the cats, John, and Raney were in there too but not until later.

Me Time

2006-02-26T11:01:26Z

vintageman has been drawing comics in his live journal which really inspired me. I mean, I've heard of these "live Journal comics" before, but now I'm really ready and rearin' to go! My first forray is a little simplistic, but more shall follow!

I may go to another journal for these. We'll see.
More complex inking and coloring will appear in the future, but for now I just want to get a ballpark range for how long these will take and if I can really try and do lettering without a computer.

My Roomate Didn't Make Rent.

2006-01-29T12:26:01Z

Nothing is more hillarious than when you get all your roomates together to pay the rent and one guy is like, "Oh shit, I have $0" and so you all gotta cover for him! Especially when he resigned the 9 month lease with you NOT EVEN A WEEK AGO. What a roomate!

This is a word-for-word mock phone conversation I had with Raney when we were talking about money and all the wonderful things you can't do without it. I realized when I drew this it was pretty much A Jon Arbuckle talking on the phone gag, so I threw Garfield in there.

JR hasn't paid the rent on time in three months. The last two times he was close and he paid us back soon, but this time he's lost his job and has no prospects. He kept telling us all month he still had some money for rent! Why would he wait 'till the last minute???? Who DOES that?
I'm pretty sure we're giving him the boot.

Seriously though, other than that, life is going good.
Been drawin'. Good classes this semester. Cleaned.

Year of the Batgirl

2006-01-16T11:25:55Z

Well, since I am obviously the biggest super hero fan in the universe:

I seriously thought my ISP was going to revoke my license to the internet I didn't do something about this
It was fun to mess around with in Photoshop, I tried some things I don't do very often, but nothing real impressive. I still feel like I'm grounding myself a bit too much when it comes to CG.
I'm trying out the not-weighting-the-lines thing. Gonna dip my toe in the water to see how it feels. So far I'm a little ready to get out of the pool, but I'l give it another try.
One of my favorites is this one which is what inspired me to do mine :).

At My Grandparents

2006-01-05T09:41:10Z

I've been sleeping in the same bed as John for the past three days now. It is experiences like this that I have as a twin which I think will help me better approach a marriage relationship than most "single siblings" might.
However, I doubt my future wife will be waking me up in the we hours of the morning because she had her Nintendo DS turned up too loud.

Its been a blast here though. Anyone who doesn't know the domino game "42" should learn it, and anyone who hasn't played Castlevania Dawn of Sorrows for the DS should play it.

I miss Max.

THAT'S WHY THEY CALL ME MR. FAHRENHEIT

2006-01-03T06:05:17Z

New Years was a blast. It made a Super Sonic Man Out Of Me.
I was the designated driver this New Years, so I had THE MOST FUN OF ALL.

Hear I am reading the Silmarillion. I found it in Rachel's roomate's room. Do I know how to party, OR WHAT?

So many fisticuffs were had, I can't even count them all. (John on the right, not me)

Ranry, John, and JR singing the Party Theme. DON'T STOP ME NOW, CAUSE I'M HAVING A GOOD TIME, HAVING A GOOD TIME

This is Raney and his GF Rachel who let us have the party at her house. She was really cool about it, considering one of our roomates through up on her floor.

This is JR attacking. He is the aforementioned roomate that through up on the floor.It was EVERYWHERE. I've never seen anyonr throw up from getting drunk before. LOL

I didn't know these people but they were cool. They stopped making out to give me my phone when they found that I'd lost it in the bed they were making out on. AWESOME.

Hunter hitting on Raney

These two girls are HOT. I cannot TOUCH THEM. Because they are so HOT.

Robyn wa my designated not-drinking buddy. Obviously the party just wasn't kicking enough for the dry members of the team, so we both fell asleep about ten minutes in.

Not pictured: The New Years after perty. John, Raney, and I all woke up at five in the morning for no reason, talked awhile, then ran to the QT and all got some coffee / eats, and came back to the apartment where we opened all the windows and watched the KISS meets the PHANTOM OF THE PARK movie. It was the cheeziest movie ever, and a great way to spend the we hours of the night. We also saw some old Swamp Thing and Visionaries cartoons which really floated our boats.

We don't know how to party without cartoons or B-Movies.

Hi I'm Daisy!

2005-12-20T07:21:36Z

Our apartment has been taken over by the amazing Mario Kart DS. Yes, it is corny. Yes, it is cheezy. But there are few times when I've had more fun than utterly destroying my roomates at this game. My character of choice?

Daisy! Why? Who knows! She makes for a nice orange color scheme though. I had a lot of trouble finding a screenshot from Mario Kart DS that would work for this, and once I finally did I had to edit Peach out of it. The fish is a bit distracting too, but I had to take what I could get.
That thing on the hood of her car is pixel per pixel my avatar in that game. My name is Clarence, and my friend code is 352246820456 if anyone wants to race.

KING KONG

2005-12-14T10:25:44Z

KING KONG

Hey Guys, What's going on in this Wardrobe?

2005-12-10T11:09:12Z

I saw The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. It was good, I guess, but it wasn't Lord of the Rings. I really wanted it to be Lord of the Rings. It looks like King Kong by Mr. Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson is going to be more Lord of the Rings. Oh well. It was worth my 8 bucks, anyway.

Tomorrow I hope to draw something. And then I hope to post it on the internet, because drawing things and posting them on the internet is what makes me an artist.

Professor Tosten said my comic was "brilliant". That's a new one from a professor!

Classes

2005-11-10T14:15:26Z

So I couldn't register for classes until today. Yesterday, however, EVERY SINGLE CLASS I WAS SCHEDULED TO REGISTER FOT FILLED UP.
A week ago I got advised and all my advisors said my schedule was good to go. I've been planning my degree out so it isn't really alter-able. What was the point of messing with all the beuracracy of the advising process and the nonsense of collecting signatures when in the end they just hide behind that SAME buracraucy, try to pass the buck to someone else, and there's no accountability?
Why are there only 18 seats available in almost every required class for a grapic desing major? Can there only BE 18 graphic desin majors at UTA? Why am I not one?
WHY AM I GOING TO UTA?

Anyway, I've fenangled my schedule enough to where I can take the mimium required hours to still keep my grant and none of the courses are TOTALLY off my degree plan, but they certainly aren't pushing it forward anywhere...
Still a relief though, I guess.

7 Pages 7 Days

2005-11-08T04:45:07Z

My friend Raney proposed he and I draw a 7 page comic in 7 days, and so it was done. We had to create new characters and a new plot and everything. He didn't finish his in time, but here's the first page to whet your appetite. The rest are present in a lj cut:

I have some things I like about it, some things I'm not too fond of. A more advanced critique can be found at http://www.deviantart.com/view/24943405/ Mostly I just think it all looks rushed. Go figure :).
Some of my influences on the character designs were Dave Kelly, Josh Leznik, and David McGuire. I want to draw more comics more often!

otakuohki @ 2005-11-04T02:42:00

2005-11-04T08:42:27Z

So what if I started on online comic again?
I'm working on this "7 pages in 7 days" comic project with som eof my friends and I'm having a lot of fun. Looking through my lj friends has reminded me of a lot of good times with that crowd too.
Hmmm...

I'm back

2005-11-04T07:57:03Z

I've decided to start posting in this thing some more.
Post if you still read these so I can get an idea of my audience. Thanks :)

Today I went out to find some NES games and it appears that they don't sell 'em at most places anymore. Ever since we moved out to Arlington I haven't been able to find any good spots to collect.
So eventually we ended up at an old giant thrift store. They didn't have any NES games but they had a TON of amazingly old computer games for only a buck fitty each. We picked up:

Kings Quest 2
Kings Quest 3
Kings Quest 4
Space Quest 1
Space Quest 2
Elvira Mistress of the Dark
Elvira 2 The Jaws of Cerberus
Conan the Cimmerian
The Immortal
Conquest of Camelot
Orbitus
Future Wars

As it turns out The Immortal and Orbitus only came with their 5 1/4th floppys. You know, the B:/ ones. Unfortunately there was no way to figure that out in the store. We're going to e-mail the companies and see if we can trade them out for 3 1/2" ones (some places still offer that).

Anyway, as it turns out these things took FOREVER to install. I had to install a MSDOS emulator since Windows 9x is not DOS based. The emulator doesn't make much since, but I've gotten it tied down. It looks like I ruined the files on the Elvira disk though. We'll see.
All in all it was a fun-filled afternoon for only around $18.50. But since everything came full in their boxes and instructions I've got to find a place to put all this crap.

Lastly, anyone who hasn't heard from me since I last posted here, please check out my deviant gallery at http://yooki42.deviantart.com/ as I've done a lot of neat stuff lately.

Leave My Journal

2005-01-18T17:05:05Z

Everyone go check out my deviant art gallery.
All updates and life-altering events will now be recorded there.

http://yooki42.deviantart.com/

Someday I might actually update one of my websites, or this LJ thing, but no time soon.
Have fun.

I got Photobucket.

2004-12-20T10:12:27Z

Okay, so I have registered with an account at photobucket, so I might start posting pictures here again. Anyway, i need to post here more often! About stuff! So I can look back and remember things! Oh well, here's what I did today. I made dolls at http://elouai.com/doll-makers/candybar-doll-maker.php ! Here's the one Amy did of herself:

So I did one of MYself, but the thing has no guy template. (That's max in the background). And then I did ones of Lauren and Jessica (Whom I FINALLY got around to adding to my friends list). And then I ran out of girls I know so I did one of Matt Raney's character, Bounty Hunter Jones.

Well,that was eventful.

otakuohki @ 2004-12-09T21:19:00

2004-12-10T03:22:23Z

All the images in my LJ were deleted. I lost all my space on my charter account. Now, whenerver I want to link to an image I will link to it in my deviant gallery :(
Well, maybe I'll post it in my Livejournal, but on subsequent updates I'll post a link to my deviant gallery.
Anyway, I intend to use this thing for actual posting now. Intend. We'll see.
I updated http://webpages.charter.net/skidrow/
This checks one thing off th elong list of things I need to clean up around here.

otakuohki @ 2004-12-03T03:18:00

2004-12-03T09:29:42Z

Booster and Valentina were some of the best Mario extras EVER.

I've been playing Paper Mario 2 lately. I have almost beat it. I like it a heck of a lot more than Paper Mario 1, and only a little less than Superstar Saga (which I LOVED). So, here's the final standing from best to not-so-best:

1. Super Mario RPG - One of the greatest games ever. One of the funniest games I've ever played, with an excelent replay value. There isn't a single NPC in this game that is not a riot to talk too. Good music too. I liked how epic this one seemed too.
2. SuperStar Saga - Mario and Luigi together. Funny, creative, and plenty of great extra characters. Very fun, and it pulled no syops in having a great ending and boss battles.
3. Paper Mario 2 - Not far behind Superstar Saga. There are some fundamental problems with the way the cast members are used, but each cast member (aside from Maam Flurrie) is awesome. A good number of the extras are fun too (like Rawk Hawk and Dupliss), but some (like Flavio and the Detective Guy) are unberrible. Some parts of this game can seem like work, but overall this is a very fresh, fun game.
I love Bobbery and Ms Mous. We need more characters like these.
135. Paper Mario - I really don't like this game too much. The Peach parts we fun, but nearly all your partners are borring (aside from Bow) and most of this game seems like work (the ShyGuy Toolbox, the desert, the Lakiluster's dang flower level...). Most of the extras were borring, and after I'd beat it, there were absolutley no secrets I hadn't uncovered, and no reason to replay.

Lauren

2004-11-28T10:35:29Z

This is a picture I did of my friend Lauren. She likes dinosaurs. Or she did, at one time. When I knew here years ago. The likeness isn't perfect, but I think it works. I tried to get your little smirk in there, Lauren.

Okay, I know you don't have purple hair or eyes. I can easily change that piece of hair to black and your eyes brown if you so wish, just say the word. From an arts-y point of view, I thought the purple went with the background. So, anyway, yeah. I hope you like it. I am pretty proud of it.
Happy Birthday

Learning Photoshop

2004-11-12T08:26:09Z

I'm learning how to use the pen-tool

This is so much fun! I also did this as a practice:

This just in; I am the coolest person in the world.
I haven't felt this proud of my artwork in a long time.
I'm going to try and utilize this pen-tool for everything I can now.
Woopie!