hey Slim....how about you play us a song on that there fiddle 83

Jimbo Slim X3

that's a much better name the the stock one I wrote on the grave stone....though I phoned it in because his body covered it anyway

what was his original name?

Simon Haris

that.......kind of sounds like an outlaw's name

Jimbo Slim
loved his violin
but now look at him
hes dead

gravestone humor is the best X3

You make me wish I put more attention to what I wrote on the gravestone

oh....by "gravestone humor" i meant "gallows humor"......not actual gravestones X3

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yeaa bones noms on...Great work btw, ah i miss 90's cartoons

There were a lot of greats in the 90's no question

hell yeaa...god i miss the MIB, Extreme ghost busters and my favored of them all Big guy and rusty the boy robot. style toons, man i loved that style

While I know of it, I never saw Big Guy and Rusty

Frank miller the fella who did 300 was the writer for the comic book the animation was based on, it had a great retro sci-fi look and well frankly it was just plain politically incorrectly humrous. Catch u on IM

Frank Miller I will always remember fondly for the hugely underrated Robocop 2

Fuck yea mate, the last decent robocop, before the crap that was 3 killed it. Enblocking really?

Well I heard the original script for 3 was a great deal better (though it did have the resistance and the woman cop from the first 2 died as well)....I think Miller wanted his name removed from 3 given that the script was almost completely different to the one he wrote.

Good choise and louis was an amazing character, it was very appropriate that she would be killed, to end the trilogy. Sadly if that was the case they really blew it, and why cant i seem to see u on AIM?

because I wasn't online then, but otherwise I've been having myself as set to appear offline

aww, man, I love Skeletons 9u9

Well thank you.....that's good to know as it's be hard to move without a skeleton

Well thank you and I think you have been as well. Lately I think Kyan has been experimenting a bit with other styles to see how that work and such, where as I've been kinda sticking down the stylistic path I started doing down in 2010 to see where it continues to take me as well as trying to refine my work further with each drawing (as you do).

This came out great! I am impressed with the lighting effects and such. Wonderful work, man!!

Well thank you very much, those are things I generally put a lot of attention into in my work so it pleases me it shows

That you do! Your attention to detail is certainly one of your strong points.

well thank you

Nice! This shows pretty well that you're getting a better grasp on color and, to a degree, lighting as well. I really like how you shaded the clouds and I'm in love with the colors you used, for some reason.. Good work! Definitely a good start to 2012 (and I also like how you redid your signature as well. It's a lot less distracting.)

Colour complements from you is high praise indeed

I wish you would submit more, because I love everything you post!

Well because of personal problems I haven't drawn much at all in the last 2 months, infact this was 1 of only 2 drawing I did in the entire duration of January.

I concur!

Look!, a plastic skeleton playing a violin, where you can see the string! You're getting better and better Slain!


I not sure if skellies are the true opposite of a fat fur. I think it would be...malnourished furs, anorexic furs, and movie star furs who constantly throw up in the toilet, and I dare say UFC fighters that do that too. Just sayin'.

It was just a bad joke because because skeletons have no fat, and it's a human. Either way I'm glad you like the picture

I dig the atmosphere in this, it's like... Tragicomical /melancholy, kind of. Cheered me up some weird how, anyway. :D And the lighting /shadows in the clouds is pretty awesome looking.

One of the biggest complements and artist can receive is knowing their work provoked a response and I'm glad that has been the case here, thank you.

Woah, this is just brilliant. Would be an interesting hoedown I must say. And everything in the pic makes it all look spooky and dark.

It seems that I'm starting to get a rep for darker cartoon art these days haha. Either way I'm glad you like it

that's a great background.

Thank you, it pleases me to hear that. They used to be a weakness of mind until I started to put greater focus on drawing them in the last couple years. I'm glad it seems to have payed off

id smooch

I shall take that as a complement

Thank you very much, I've often of the last couple years being trying to improve my colour pallets and try to build on the atmosphere of the drawings. It does my heart good hearing that.

Well 08 was generally a weak year for me all round

"Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers in that Unquiet Earth" -- Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd quotes are always a welcome sight

I am really starting to dig people's different takes on the skeleton, both with the cartoony looks as well as the more text-book realism. The bendy bones and facial expressions give an otherwise dead character a lot of life. Swell job!

Well thank you, well it's always been kinda a peeve of mine when some people go to great deal of deal in most of the pic and then proceed to draw a really half arsed skeleton.....this cartoon skeletons are the worst offenders of that so I really wanted to try and do a good one here. I am glad you like it.

I couldn't agree more with the half-assed skeletons around here. Some people do an impeccable job with just a bit of research, and I understand when people struggle with certain parts (pelvic bone perspective and rib cages), but you can always invent imaginative ways to them, make them into simpler shapes. I am obsessed with bones, and it tears at me when people don't make any effort at all in trying to make a skeleton look like a skeleton.. huff.

That's not even just around here.....I have even seen professional artists draw half-arsed skeletons. I mean just look at how in most cartoons they are even drawn incredibly shoddy. This bugs me even more sense these are paid professionals in a field I've been trying to break into myself and they then cut corners but drawing a shitty skeleton.

They may be well known cartoonists whom have little knowledge of skeletons though do a lot of other great themed work, so they do things in their own style. Or perhaps the audience and/or their boss has little idea what a skeleton looks like in all its glory. Who could say for sure how awful bones are put out there? It's sort of like how every bone pile in a cartoon consists only of femurs and skulls.

My biggest peeve is lack of proper bones in the arms and legs (tibia, fibula, ulna and radius), and instead use femurs for everything. That's basically borderline stick-man.

Haha you are exactly right and it bugs me too