Hello there. I'm Rob. This is my art blog, consisting entirely of things I've created or collaborated on in various media.
Some other blogs of mine: Other things I do:
- I play with video
- I sell things
- I freelance
- I answer questions
- I talk on the radio
- I network socially
- I await human contact
My computer-based work is done with Free Software whenever possible. Some of my favorite tools:
- GIMP (raster graphics)
- Inkscape (vector graphics)
- MyPaint (digital painting)
- Pencil (animation)
- Ubuntu (operating system)
ART BY RTF and all original material therein by Rob Vincent is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License unless otherwise noted.
Permission for use outside this license may be available; contact me with inquiries.
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Some days you find yourself illustrating venerable Irish actor and Star Trek alumnus Colm Meaney, and affixing him to an ancient meme.
Today, for me, is one of those days.
Modified from this original Keep Calm poster.
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It’s National Draw T-Rex Day, as started by crashsuit and spread around by nedroid over on Twitter yeterday. For my contribution I riffed (very badly) on this guy.
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In response to the current kerfuffle going on in Neil Gaiman’s corner of the Internet, the affable @mistressmousey suggested her artist acquaintances draw this elusive creature known as the pencil-necked little weasel.
So sorry, etc.
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I decided to try my hand at Troll Physics. Let’s all do this and party in space!
For those unfamiliar with Troll Science/Troll Physics: SFW / NSFW
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A fun little fandom meme I filled in bit by bit on breaks over the course of a busy day. I generally try to fill things like this in by doodling as rapidly as possible with minimal erasing or undoing.
I was pointed toward this meme by my friend and fellow Doctor Who fan aikainkauna. The original blank meme is by neekaneeks on Deviantart.
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More The Wicker Man nonsense. My extra-derpy Nicholas Cage from my earlier piece is now a brand mascot, paying tribute to another memorable line from that cinematic bee-sting. Would you buy your next bottle of God Damn Honey from this man?
Inspired by the ending of this rather brilliant Wicker Man YouTube Poop.
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10-minute sketch: “HOW’D IT GET BURNED?”
Done while watching this clip on a loop in the corner of my screen. Drawing this has made me crave a plate of nachos, slightly overdone with the cheese just a little bit burned.
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More MST3K comic; this time a portrait of original mad scientist Dr. Laurence Erhardt. For my comic I thought it might be neat if he were the one running these new comic-book experiments on the ‘bots, during Mike or Joel’s downtime. The actor who played Erhardt, J. Elvis Weinstein, left the show after its second season to be replaced by TV’s Frank; a brief milk-carton gag noted that Erhardt was “missing” and the character was never heard from again. I decided that he took off to run an evil comic shop (aren’t they all?) from which he re-establishes contact with the Satellite of Love.
I drew the first verstions of my ‘bots around 7 years ago, but hadn’t actually drawn Larry yet; this is me doodling now while looking at screengrabs and pondering the future of this project. I’m not really happy with it yet, I’ll keep playing with it.
Speaking of the future, the response here on Tumblr and elsewhere to my posts about this has been phenomenal. Many thanks to fuckyeahmst3k and the rest of you who’ve clicked, reblogged, and sent kind words! You’ve all convinced me that I need to finally make this comic happen, so that’s officially the plan now. Stay tuned!
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Some ‘bot illustrations from my unfinished Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan comic; there’s more info on this project in my previous post. These guys are composed from the library of ‘bot images I created for the host segments set on the Satellite of Love’s bridge. Like the cheaper cel animators of old, I can quickly assemble full bots from my library of body parts, tweaking the angles and facial expressions to suit the scene as needed, with far less hassle than it would take to draw new bots each time. Because of the simple geometry and design of the original puppets, this turned out surprisingly easy to get going.
I have so much love for the brilliant cast and crew of MST3K; not only did Joel Hodgson build unique, workable, and appealing puppets from miscellaneous bits and pieces of junk, but thanks to his and the performers’ talents these little guys managed to be so damned expressive! Bringing out the characters’ on-screen personalities in these flat vector drawings is so much less arduous a task than it could have been thanks to the brilliant and talented people behind them. I’m still tweaking these designs and adding more poses to my library, but they’re reasonably close to being finalized.
Some MST3K fan artists have taken more complete advantage of the medium to regularly show off the ‘bots in ways rarely seen on the show; Crow walking around on visible legs, Servo’s arms actually working, etc. I generally prefer to keep my MST3K stuff closer to the show’s original spirit. The ‘bots I draw still mainly hang out at a countertop because in my mind’s eye, there are still puppeteers hidden behind it.
While these illustrations are my work Mystery Science Theater 3000 and all related characters remain © Best Brains, Inc., who reveled in the fact that we could see the strings.
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