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Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:30:54 GMT

I was testing out some stuff for work. Sorry for the confusion.

Shirts!

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:51:00 GMT

I have a new shirt that'll be available at Connecticon and then on the site after I get back.

Hope you guys like it!
Also, I'll update some new sketches and stuff soon. Been pretty busy recently with con stuff and work.

Couple more sketches

Wed, 03 May 2006 23:24:08 GMT

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, here are some random sketches I made a while ago.

something I drew for work last week.

Some running guy I drew last night.

Cartoony goodness

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:22:55 GMT

Did this last night and was waiting for more sketches to be done to post it, but I got impatient. More character design sketchiness. It's more loose and cartoony, but I'm liking this one much better.

Pain in my back

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:23:32 GMT

Yesterday I slipped on this thing called a pivit and hurt the hell out of my back. It looked sort of like this:

insert wacky cartoon sound effect

I also was messing around with some character design.

I'm still not 100% on the style... I'll be experimenting with it a lot. Anyway. Later guys.

Hate Song and Starslip fan art

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:41:33 GMT

I guess two sketches is good enough for a post.

Orest from Hate Song.

Vanderbeam and Mr. Jinx from Starslip Crisis.

VGcats fan art

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:20:22 GMT

I know I said I wouldn't post for every little sketch, but this one took me a while, and it more of a finished piece. Some fanart for VGcats.

That's Guitar Hero they are playing on Canti's face.

edit:
here's some wallpaper sizes
1600 x 1200
1280 x 1024
1024 x 768
800 x 600

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:38:10 GMT

I forgot to put this up last night. I'm gonna try to cluster these things better in the future, so I'm not updating for every little sketch. This got me thinking, does anyone else have a hard time seeing Topher Grace as Venom? I'm leaving judgement until I see the movie, but he's always been the epitome of "scrawny kid" to me. Hell, he would have made a pretty good Peter Parker.

"I'll push your face in, you nerd!"

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:32:22 GMT

As you have probably guessed at this point, I'm not a heavy LJ user. I have my own site which I use as a mouthpiece and I don't think to use LJ all that often. Outside of the webcomic thing, I usually don't have all that much to say, and when I do, it's often forgotten before I can write it down. Well, I figure if I don't have that much to say, I'll just start posting some sketches. So here's the first stab. Some evil professor-y guy.

Shirt Update

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:11:10 GMT

The Rob and Elliot Shirts are available for preorder now. Just thought some of you might like to know.

Blogging in the Blogosphere with a Blogging Pole

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:33:47 GMT

If you checked out the news on Rob and Elliot, you saw that Baron Doomsday has a MySpace account. Although it seems every fictional character and their brother already has one, I assure you, we had planned on this long before the comixpedia article. It'll be a permanent addition to the Robandelliotiverse, and hopefully it will update fairly often with pictures and other crap. All I'm going to say is that I'm not writing it, so I'll leave it up to your imagination who is.

Starformers!

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:41:03 GMT

You guys may have already seen this link:
http://www.starwars.com/collecting/news/hasbro/news20051107.html

If you haven't, I'll give you a sec to look it over...checked it out? I'll wait... ok, now aside from the fact that this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, it also contains one of the funniest lines I've ever seen.

"Obi-Wan Kenobi was never a fan of flying, but he better get used to it because now he's actually a Jedi starfighter."

They're basically saying "Don't like planes? Fuck you! You are a plane!"

Rassa Frassa.

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:45:06 GMT

You'd think that if a new game has a release date of the 14th, you'd be able to get it on, oh, I don't know...the 14th. Does "release" mean release from the shackles of the factory to be prepared for shipping? For every other form of media I can think of, when they say "release date" that usually means you can stop by your local Best Buy or whatever, and pick it up that day. Not the case with games. Here's an idea. Increase all advertised game release dates by one day, and then have it so that you can pick it up on the day it is advertised as being "released". Also, when the release date is the 14th, and you say you'll have it on the 15th, I expect that to mean the morning of the 15th, EBGames. Not "sometime this afternoon". I didn't preorder for sometime this afternoon. All preordering has done for me is guarantee that I can't pick it up when I go to lunch at work, and it's making me drive out of my way and pick it up at night. I've decided that, unless there will be shortages of epic proportions, preordering is for chumps. I guess today I'm a Mario Kart-less chump.

New Design!

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:31:34 GMT

A brand spanking new site design, folks! Also a webcam. There will be some more bonus features going up soon (we're shooting for next Friday). It looks like Penny Arcade totally stole my thunder with a new site design of their own. For you web designers out there, it may interest you to know that my site is 100% css converted. Not a table in site. This took some learning because I'd never used css before and I was opened to a whole new world of IE/Firefox incompatibilities. For instance, IE won't let you valign a div. Lame. It makes me glad to see that according to the stats, most of our readers are Firefox users (55%)instead of IE (30%). A smart bunch of readers we've got :) So anyway, test out the site, and let me know what you think.

Shirts 'n stuff.

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 18:24:44 GMT

In case you guys didn't see the new Rob and Elliot shirt design, check it out:

I'm liking it (so much so that I went and photoshopped how it would look on the shirt). And I'd also like to see it as a sticker or something. Maybe in a different color.

*liberal rant*
Anyway, I voted my ass off today. Kaine for gov. Call me a liberal hippy, but I'd like to make it easier to get to work in the morning, since the congestion in Northern VA is some of the worst on the planet. Speaking of liberal, I'm sick of it being used as a bad word. It's officially old. This started back when Clinton was running for his first term, and it has continued to this day. Republicans are attaching a negative stigma to a word that literally means, not encumbered by the orthodox, free from bigotry, and open-minded. From the Latin "libera", meaning free. I suppose I should connect this to actual events. I started thinking about all this when I saw the Kilgore ads saying that Kaine was "liberal on the the death penalty". Let's leave alone that the death penalty is an aberration in our otherwise civilized government, and that vengeance is not a right of the state. I just want to focus on the use of "liberal" in this statement. Could this type of labeling be used by the democrats? I don't think so. "conservative on education" just doesn't have the same evil ring to it. If there's one thing you have to give to the neo-cons, it's that they have spin down to an absolute science. I mean, how else could they make liberal mean "Satan worshiping pansy?" The majority of people in this country are technically "liberal" when it comes to the issues, they just don't like being associated with the term, and who could blame them? It's almost come to mean "unamerican". But you know what? I'm sick of it. I'm liberal because I believe in equality. I'm liberal because I believe we have rights that extend beyond the second amendment. I'm liberal because I believe the government should protect the common man from corporate excesses instead of beat him down. I'm liberal and I'm damn proud of it.
*/liberal rant*

Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.

Still alive

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:13:47 GMT

Yeah, I'm still alive. Things have been really hectic and I'm still getting used to the "update Livejournal regularly" thing. Halloween is upon us and I'm going to be all up on's this holiday. Shelly and I are going as Elliot and JD from scrubs. I made us some forged name tags and everything. If I get some decent pics, I'll post them later on tonight. I saw The curse of the Were-Rabbit this weekend, and I've gotta say, Nick Park knows how to make an AWESOME "G" movie. He also incredibly good at seeing the big picture in the face of adversity.

Deadcatomobile

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:10:40 GMT

This has been slashdotted, so many of you have probably already seen it, but anyway:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/09/14/germany.catfuel.reut/index.html

Now, don't get me wrong, I may have seemed like a cat-hater in the past, but I really do love the little furbags, and have had two of my own that passed on. Nonetheless, I believe that Rainbow and Smokey would have wanted to donate their bodies so that others may drive. Soon we will start measuring distances in dead cats. "How long is your commute?" "Oh, about 10 dead cats". The hip term will be "DCs". "Man, I must have driven 100 DCs yesterday!"

I'm gonna geek out on you for a bit...

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:40:05 GMT

Flash 8 came out just the other day. It has blurring and drop shadows now. And blend modes...blend modes!! I felt like I was about to pass out when I saw all the features. We are planning on upgrading at work soon. I can't friggin' wait!

Vacation!

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:05:22 GMT

This week has been the first vacation I've taken in about two years. I decided that staying at home and just relaxing was the best choice. Next time, Europe :) I've been taking it as an opportunity to get some of my shit done. I worked on a comic for the hurricane relief webithon thing Brad Guigar is hosting, I worked on the mysterious Frankencomic project with Greg (my part mainly consisting of being in the same room), I got the Rob and Elliot comics done in a (relatively) timely manner, and I've been working on a redesign of the Rob and Elliot site which makes heavy use of css. Getting stuff done feels really good, but a part of me just wants to veg out and play some video games. Speaking of which, my girlfriend got me a new video card for my birthday, and I'll finally be able to play some recent games on my computer. More recent than my Geforce 2 pro would let me, anyway. You guys have any suggestions for PC games that have come out in the last year or so that you found to be awesome? No MMORPGS please, I don't have that kind of time.

Oh, the bandwagon.

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:12:12 GMT

I've finally done it... I have crossed the Rubicon and gotten a Live Journal account. You know, because the webcomic, forums, and Boxcar community, just weren't enough. There's no turning back now. Anyway, I figure I can use this place to post things that are too inane for the Rob and Elliot posts and too self-absorbed for a forum. I'll also post the occasional picture from a con. (In all the confusion, only managed to snap two at Otakon) I've got a few friends and acquaintances who use LJ and hopefully it'll help me keep in touch with them better and maybe introduce them all to each other. Also, I'm a little tired of cluttering up the Rob and Elliot main page with my crap. Anyway, I've gotta head out to stand in a DMV line. My liscense expires on Friday, and I'll be damned if I have to retake that test. I'll be sure to post something really inane and pointless again soon.

Here's the pic from Otakon with me and Shadowmaster sitting at the table. For those of you wondering... No, the sluggy prints weren't for sale, just for show.

Here's a sketch I did for a passer-by. It's the logical answer to kosher pickles

A sketch of a guy at the con, The line is from a comic called Shallow Grave, because I'm an unoriginal hack. I didn't take this pic either, the guy who bought it emailed it to me. Thanks guy!