On the Road with Bob & Bing

Does anyone remember those old ‘On the Road’ picutres with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby?  I don’t know about you guys but I love watching the old black and white pictures.  The first black and white comedy classics I grew up too were the Marx Brothers, I loved Groucho and his wise crack remarks.  Then I became aware of the three stoogies, Abbot & Costello and finally Bob Hope & Bing Crosby. 

I personally think people should watch the old black and white films, their just as important as watching movies like Aliens, Monty Pythons Holy Grail, Starwars, and some of the other great classics.  I know some people who don’t find an interest in such movies but I think it’s because they never really gave the black and white films a chance.  I know they’re not like our current films but think about this: The style of films back then were considered advanced, not like they are now. 

If you have the chance I highly suggest watching one of the old black and white movies.  I have some titles for you to consider:

• Citizen Kane (Rose bud)
• A Night at the Opera featuring the Marx Brothers
• Road to Zanzibar with Bob Hope & Bing Crosby
• The Maltice Falcon
• Anyting with just Bob Hope

One of my interests

I actually thought this post was deleted but I guess the site saved it for me.  Go figure.

Well my main interests are in games, art, science fiction and anything from TV to movies. 

I’m a hard core gamer and am very VERY picky about what kind of games I play.  Unless a game can actually entertain me for 5 minutes I’ll keep playing it.  But if a game doesn’t keep me interested in that time frame then I just leave it there to collect dust or sell it at a GameStop. 

I really wish I could get rid of some of the PC games I own, GameStop won’t take them for whatever reason which annoys me.  I hate to just throw them away but I’d rather get some payment back from what I bought and at least let the CD get recycled.  But before people mentioned it, I am aware of ‘GCycle’ and what they do with CDs and such.

I think my very first game for the PC was either Battle Chess or Warcraft II, I can’t recall which.  But my VERY VERY first game was Mario Brothers for the Nintendo, that game is a life long classic and I need to play it again.

I’ve really gotten into Real Time Strategy games, or RTS as their called, and its such fun to watch the little pixels and 3D rendered models fight each other to the death.  That said my latest interest has been the PC game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II.  You can find it here: http://community.dawnofwar2.com/main.php but to really get you hooked you have to watch their trailer here: http://community.dawnofwar2.com/blogs/?p=365 the 3D work in it is beautiful and its such fun to watch the animation as they fight.  You don’t really have to know about the groups in Warhammer 40,000, I didn’t know about it either until I played the game then I let it tell me about each group.

 well there are some other things I coudl talk about but that’s for a later time, i don’t like it when some entries are so long it makes you feel like you don’t want to read it all.  I try to keep it simple.

What I can do

Well I received a comment or rather a request asking to showcase what I can draw.  Well I still don’t know how to post up images to Word Press yet, or even if I can, so I will post the links to some of my best works here:

 

This one is a concept sketch of a spider human creature and a type of alien crab creature

http://sharkbyte3827.deviantart.com/art/Sketch-Dump-05-86729670

 

These were some facial expressions of yours truly: http://sharkbyte3827.deviantart.com/art/My-expression-86728979

 

This is my all time favorite piece of my character ripping off his face:

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/color/3.html

Some more of the same character:

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/BnW/2.html

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/BnW/1.html

 

 

This is a character I created as a type of grim reaper character, only with a Mayan style to his gear and a more bloated and grotesque form.  That and instead of gathering souls he gathers heads

  http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/color/10.html

 

This was a Pixel ID I created in Photoshop for Deviant art.com

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/color/31.html

There was a trend where artists would draw their art persona in a traditional, street fighter, type fighter game with a digital icon and a pixel form of your fighter.

 

These hands are just bloody awesome http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/color/30.html

Imagine having these, they don’t run off nerve or muscle tension like in starwars or whatever.  They run on their own Artificial intelligence XD.

 

I grew up to the Gobots in 1984 and my all time favorite bad girl was Crashcer http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/color/34.html  ♥♥♥♥  I don’t care what you say or think she is bloody awesome and has the sexiest car form.

 

The Abomination for a story I’m working on

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/BnW/11.html

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/sketch/19.html

 

My silhouette

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/BnW/13.html

 

This was a birthday gift to an artist on Deviantart whose work I love and I thought of drawing her in a Sin City style with her weapon choice, a paper cutter knife.

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/BnW/15.html

 

A detailed close up of a human shark

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/sketch/1.html

 

An example of my 3D modeling with Maya: a render of my Space marine Rhino

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/3D/2.html

 

A chaos Bolter Rifle made in Maya

 http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/3D/3.html

 

Some sketchs of a character and his cat

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/sketch/8.html

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/sketch/21.html

http://artblotstudios.com/htmImages/2D/sketch/7.html

 

Its ME….sort of

Well I wanted to use the ‘In a Nut shell’ as my title but it didn’t work out as I’m new to the whole blogging matter.  I’m sure I can edit it in the future but I gotta figure out later.  Well anyway on to a bit about me:

Who am I you ask, I’m Paul Rascher and I’m a character artist / concept artist and I ‘love’, emphasis on the word love, to draw unique characters.  Now by ‘unique’ I mean a character that stands out of the norm of what we traditionally see either in a game or a cartoon.  I don’t draw the traditional fan art from popular TV shows, unless it was a really Really good one, instead I draw characters create by myself or characters that I’ve seen made by other artist.  I’ve always loved something new in life, either if its just made or if its been around for years and I’m just seeing it for the first time. 

            Aside from drawing I also delve into writing science fiction stories, usually short stories or long books.  Now that said, I do not have any samples of my work published as I like to ensure the story is perfect.  As part of my writing I also create a background and history profile the characters I draw.  I enjoy giving them a world too live in and a personality all their own.

            Now I’m not all work and no play, I love to play games anything from the PC to the XBOX.  But I don’t just play any game that comes out, if a game does not fully grasp my attention the first 5 minutes I lose interest and move on to something else.  While playing games I really enjoy watching a story take place and the character development through out the game play.  At time I even get a story idea from what I play and make little side notes to myself about them, some ideas grow up others don’t make the cut.

            Now that I got that bit of info about me out there let me tell you more about what I am like.  I love the play the fool, so whenever I get the chance to where I can be loud and annoying and get away with it I go for it.  I grew up watching movies like the Marx Brothers, Monty Python and their antics, episodes like Mel Brooks Get Smart and the occasional Saturday morning cartoons and evening episodes of Rocko’s Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, and anything else that made me bust out laughing when I was a kid so I like to make people laugh.  I love listening to Rock on the radio while driving down the highway and just staying at home listening to the DVD play whatever movie is in there while I play games.

            Well that’s all I’m giving away, if you want to know more just ask. 

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