I figured, a superhero is only as good as his supervillain. Any veggie superhero needs a suffciently non-veg adversary, hence the good professor here.

Enoki is a kind of Japanese mushroom (although the ones I've drawn look more like porcinis), and Niku is Japanese for meat.

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I doodled the pencil version of this image in the corner of a sketchbook page one day last February. It wasn't a particularly good drawing, and it was about as large as a box of tic-tacs, but sometime in September I was thumbing through the same book and decided it might make a nice coloured piece.

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Dr. Irv's cruciferous cosmic cranium pulverises his enemies with purple power blasts. He used to wear yellow tights before his transformation too -- it was the uniform at his med school.

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I figured that if I was going to spend time inventing a group of superheroes based on Spyder's suggestion of veggie influences, I might as well colour them up and give each his own post. This is Spud, who, in addition to being a lame potato-based ripoff of the Thing, also has purple nipples, and these are important.

Go on, tell me why.

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My first attempt at something orthographic. Drew the graph lines myself, so they are a bit askew. I had attempted a cityscape in a pitch to a client for their Season's Greetings card, and you can see a few lines of that off to the left of this picture. No, they didn't go for it, but I blame that squarely (no pun intended) on my crappy ortho/brush pen art skills. Maybe if I'd pitched the robot instead...

On an unrelated note: I don't draw enough robots. Also: no, I've never actually heard the song that inspired this title.

Welcome to the new allVishal.

In case you didn't notice, you've been redirected to the new host of this site at publiksquare.com. No ads, woohoo! The lightbox script on the work page functions properly now. Also, there's a crappy picture of me up on the about page. I figured all these years of hiding my beauty from the world didn't even result in one crazed stalker, so the embargo on photos of me has now been lifted. May not end up posting personal photos on the blog, however, but who knows. There are all those nekkid pics...

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Come on, nobody really needs an excuse to draw a hot anime girl, do they?

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Not based on any topic. Just a product of free-drawing (though I must admit that at the stick figure stage it was a warm-up for a Kong Vs Gojira sketch that might have ended up under Kaiju Monster Apocalypse -- I still want to do that one).

I used the fat brush pen for most of it because I have little experience with that. It's quite hard to control on this paper, but the style works for something rough like this. Smaller details like much of the textural linework on dracunerd were done with the small brush pen, and it adds a a nice lino/woodcut look to it, I think.

And yes, the flower was added in as an afterthought after all the inking was done.

(This is, of course, shamelessly ripped off from that issue of NEXTWAVE with the widdle fuzzy bears of death)