This was an impromptu sketch I did at FA:U5 late Saturday night in the gamer's room. Normally I don't hang out in them (except for FWA's, which has MAME arcade cabinets :D), but this time it was a little different:

FA:U's new hotel, the Hanover Marriott in northern NJ, has a neat little feature in its guest rooms--a video jack panel mounted on the desk next to the TV. This means you can hook up camcorders, DVD players, etc to the TV without screwing with the cables or connections behind the TV itself. Among other things included were composite video, S-video, audio, VGA and HDMI. So, I was going to connect my Archos 5 through it's DVR Station which includes an HDMI output. Perfect...I could watch video stored on the device on the big screen in all its 720P glory. Only thing was--it didn't work. The TV didn't react in the least when I plugged my dock in. Even when I hooked it to the HDMI jacks on the TV--nothing.

Thinking that the hotel wouldn't have put these panels in and just disable them, I went down to the gamer's room and asked if I could hook the dock to one of the inactive TV's (this was late at night--few if any would be playing anyway) to test it's HDMI output. To my relief, nothing was wrong with the dock--I found out from the hotel engineer that all the inputs save for composite video (the standard-def red/white/yellow RCA jacks) werre disabled by the LodgeNet box hooked to the set, to keep kids from d*cking with the TV's settings (which apparently was a problem in the past)

This brings me to the sketch. During the time I was running tests on my Archos, gameroom manager  rocksteady had started playing episodes of The Boondocks for the remaining patrons, making the room thoroughly "ghetto". A particularly acute laugh-getter was the Stinkmeaner Trilogy, during which I whipped up the above sketch, cause the trilogy was just too funny, I had to depict one of my characters cracking up at it. The only thing slowing up my post was the decision to color it as if it took place in a darkened room lit by the TV, something I wasn't too good at--I just threw a blue shadow layer between Tina here and the backdrop, then puzzled over how to process her silver-colored shoes before just airbrushing some of the floor color for shadows and throwing in some white highlights. The rest of the outfit just sort of came out of the blue...er, purple and lavender-ish. Since this is such a different look for Tina, I elected to do one other "standard standing there" pic of her modeling this combo before moving on to other projects.

Pencil on bristol, digitally inked in Inkscape and colored in Micrografx Picture Publisher. Three layers excluding attributon and logo. Originally 163MB at full size. Project ID#263