I want to be more active and engage with you all, but I realize that I haven't shared much about myself yet. To improve that, I've updated my "About Me" section. The previous version didn't seem to resonate with me and wanted to create something I found satisfying.
Invader Zim was an unparalleled media experience. Some alien nearly destroys his planet so he’s banished to be a fast food worker. He decides to stop being banished when he hears he can destroy more stuff so they send him to the far reaches of space on a false mission so he dies but earth is there. He decides to collect information on the planet to collect its weaknesses by going to public school. The only people who can see through his disguise are a neglected rich kid 12 year old obsessed with Mothman and his gamer girl sister. Both the siblings are goth. The Mothman kid is the only one interested in stopping the alien but not out of any moral obligation or anything but for that sweet sweet daddy’s love. One time the Mothman kid got a therapist who killed the previous therapist and took his place, and this is a d-plot within the episode at best. The flagship brand of soda in the universe is called poop cola. There was an episode about how Zims entire alien race is more machine than human, and their entire being is contained in the little metal backpacks that are attached to them at all times, and their bodies are more things to carry these PAKS around and if they were to detach they would die while the PAK would attach to the nearest creature, overwrite their mind and kill them. This episode was cancelled to make the Christmas special. Gir is there.
I had a crap night and I wanted to do something very self indulgent. I've been wanting to paint over a zim sketch digitally, attempting to use color directly instead of depending on values first, like I usually do. I am SHOCKED at how much I a.) enjoyed this, and b.) did a decent job. I feel like I've attempted this kind of style/technique in photoshop countless times with poor results. I was HEAVILY inspired by @spookysweaterblog, their work is incredible, please go check them out. I can't say that my work here ended up looking anything like theirs, but it helped a lot to have something to springboard off of, reference wise.
Orange bg version:
Here is the original sketch page. Zim has become my muse lately. If I feel unmotivated to draw, I'll still somehow manage to draw him and have fun.