love the detailing that you put into the mechanical beings.

Thanks.
I try to bring a rustic old sci-fi look to my mechanics.

-B!

It hurts for awhile then they give you a new one

Sissies. Cybernetics make you cool!

Indeed. The net is vast and infinite.

Ouch... that's not good...

not good, but it takes the pain away.

o3o wow. the image and the description are both very poetic!

Thanks. I was feeling emo today, and that's what poured out of me.

-B!

*does the robot*

Can I be a cyborg next please?

Pretty deep stuff brutha.

Well I'm not all fun and games.

-B!

Of course you're not. Theres also the porn. :3

I kid. Part of the reason I love watching you is the range of stuff you do do.

Mostly boob jokes, but I can toss other things out as well!

-B!

I'm having Xenosaga flashbacks.

wow... so it's a flashback that lasts 20 minutes ten you get to play a little more of the game?

-B!

TRUTH!

I like to think of it more as a movie... with button pressing to make the movie keep going.

Okay, I was more referring to the "humans who long to be androids to dull the pain," but...that's fine too.

"They'll fix you. They fix everything."

Time for the serious? Its very well done.

Just a little serious.

It'll soon pass.

-B!

... I'll just keep silent. *pats a bunny ear*

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Why suffer when there are alternatives.

-B.

and some would say "with each piece lost, a new scar is formed" and that without lifes sting to remind us how frail things are, we become careless.

Excellent work

It's not often I see a pic that tears open an old scar. Bravo man bravo.

Oh wow, that's interesting. Nice story behind the pic.

Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was too short. I toyed with making it longer, but it seemed sweeter like this.

-B.

Sometimes short is sweet. It's more than enough to catch my eyes. Seems like everyone else's too.

Well thank you!

Hehe, thank you for posting this one up. This is actually up there with Maverick's fave Drake arts.

woo!

It's enough. Too little and it's too simplistic, too long and meaning and expression get drowned in words.

-SP

So it's a good balance. Cool.

-B!

hooboy, that's gonna take a while to buff out...

My pain is what makes me human!
I NEED MY PAIN!
--Shatner

Which movie was that from?

-B?

Five.

Hmm, I can't recall if that was one of the bad ones... it does have an odd number...

-B!

That's the one where Spock's half brother starts a cult that takes over a shithole of a nowhere planet, then hijacks the enterprise to go meet 'god' in the center of the galaxy. His principle method of convincing people to go along with them consists of 'taking away' their pain, which Kirk refuses(thus the quote).

The most interesting thing in the entire movie was probably the Felinoid dancer with three breasts.

Mankind being subsumed by its own technology... in a way, that's almost unbirthing. XD

Nothing wrong with being a cyborg! I mean, once you've lost enough biological parts that you're not considered much of a person... then you can stop using humanoid body parts. Giant mechanical spider body, anyone?


... also, am I the only one who thinks "Pneumatic penis?" whenever the topic of cyborgness comes up?

Oh, wow...That's a really awesome look at how cybernetics can fit into just about any story.

Now you make me sad..

You started it.

*cry*

ERK!

*snugg*

Awww... poor little lady. My heart goes out to her.

And may I just say this is some very detailed work you've done here. Very excellent.

I could have made it more detailed... but this was on scrap paper at work.

-B!

creeeeeeepy.

And really good; the text adds a lot to it, and there's a lot there to begin with. Awesomely done.

Thanks. I was going for a bit of creepy mixed in with some sad.

Bake for about thrity minutes, then let cool and serve.

-B!

I DON'T GET THE JOKE. D8

It's not a joke. Just a sad little story.

-B.

Noooo, there's a funny in it somewhere!

I JUST KNOW IT.

*looks harder*

Not gonna find any.

-B!

Tears of a cyborg.

This is another beautiful piece. Very poignant. IDK, I just wanna give her a hug. Cyborgs need love too.

such a DEEP character. i love her and ohh the detaile machines look awesome :D very 80's sci fi flick robot style :D

Replaced by the cold of steel and wires.

Heavy stuff.

Totally... al that metal isn't light at all. ;)

-B!

lol, that too.

"Others would say that even without that flesh which defines me I am still more human than I will ever understand."

I contest that body=/=soul. Thus even if you remove the flesh, the spirit remains.

I like being deep sometimes too :D

Normally I'm just the weird quite guy in the corner/loud guy distracting everyone



"Do not expect reward for basic human kindness."
-Stefan S. 2006

I would think that as long as the brain exists, the soul does as well, but who's to say the soul isn't wrapped up within the whole of the being, if there is indeed a soul to begin with.

-B.

My deepness faded already. It's birthday party time!


"If it bleeds I can kill it."
-Stefan S. 1997

Even in death, I still serve. The machine spirit lives on. Faith is Eternal.

-SP

"When the darkness falls and all is dead. I will rise and continue to protect my brethren. Even after dead I shall protect the lives that tried so hard to protect mine."

<Goes back into party mode>

"If you knock me down I will get back up even stronger."
-Stefan S 1994

Whoa... O_O

I don't think all the scars ever truly go away, even if the flesh is replaced. It's never quite that simple. I think she tells herself that in order to reassure herself, since there's no going back.

Who wouldn't want to be Robocop? I mean, out of people who are attracted to refridgerators...

you've been watching too much ghost in the shell haven't you?

Oddly enough I didn't like that movie.
As far as Shrio Masemunei goes his best work is Tank Police!

-B!

its just not a movie but an entire series

2 Movies, a TV Series, and at least 2 Manga Series.

Oh yeah, but taking all that into account, Tank Police is still way cooler!

-B!

*giggles* No denying that. I have both Dominion Tank Police and New Dominion Tank Police. Both are great, though the original one is the best of the two. ^_^;;

Man, the description only helped make this more of a deeply emotional sort of pinup.

have you got an xbox 360? if so, u should consider getting Too Human dude
cybernetics and norse mythology in epic spades :P anyway, nice emotional
piece here dude, deserves a fav methinks

Nope, don't have one, but I'm not sure I'd want to try it after watching this:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/vid...../213-Too-Human

lol oh dear XD aahh well its a game ull either love or hate, its a chuckle online co op
tho i will admit it has many faults :P

Ah, online co-op.
That'll draw people in!

-B!

not the main aspect of a game, im aware :P i guess the reason i aint complaining
too hard is that i got it at a super discounted, semi illegal price ^^ that does tend to
change your outlook on an otherwise crap game :D

Speaking as a massage therapist who's had anatomy, physiology, & pathology classes, the arm won't work as you present it. The elbow is a hinge joint, not a ball-and-socket affair. And how does the radius and the ulna fit onto that?

Who says she's getting a new arm? Might be a base for a weapon a la Samus Aran.

Excellent work. Understated but expressive.

It's not meant to mirror the original, it's meat to replace.
Also, it's a good deal larger than what's normal, but the rest of the arm will be larger as well.
The cybernetics there are a bit clunky, but they get the job done.

-B!

That's another thing, the arm's larger and heavier than the original and it will have an effect on her health due to homeostatic imbalance. She'll have chronic conditions up the ying-yang until she gets a new regular-sized arm.
When I was doing massage, I used to get women who damn near needed a wheelchair to get around because they had a boob job and went up just a single cup size.

You know, you can just tell me you don't like the picture man.

It's just a peice of artwork, and it's not really intended to be a literal interpritation of cybernetics.

-B.

gotta say, for how heavily modified she is I don't think that we can either assume it is not a problem or won't be for long. it looks like her hips, arm, and back are modified if not replaced. If these can be assimilated into her overall form without problem then I don't think the oversized part will be a problem. ...and if they can't, she can just replace the parts of her frame that fail, one way or another. (be a good reason to adventure if you need the money for upkeep... just look at Scud! ... slightly different premise, but similar idea.)

This pic is very cool and the line fits well.. This kinda makes me think of Ghost in the Shell

Pretty cool.

Nice. Very nice.

Wow, very lovely Drake. BTW, if you can, take a look at the movie Puzzlehead, a very thought provoking version of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, except the scientist built an android.

Hmm, that does sound inteeresting.

-B!

We, all of us, lose bits of ourselves throughout our lives. We're cut, shaped, molded into beings that serve purpose. Perhaps to our own design, perhaps not. We are but what life makes us. Through the shaping we cling to the hope that we don't lose what makes us who we are.

We, all of us, lose bits of ourselves. Just sometimes those bits are more visible than others.

-SP

"Heed not the words of men,
For that which is flesh is flawed,
And thus that which is flesh-made
Is also flawed.

Descend the ladder once more to gain perfection,
A design at fault in neither the body nor the mind.

And thus it was declared that the
Kin of machanicha were exist upon
The Universe, given to drink
What they may of what they will."

That's from the Matrix sin't it?

Or possibly Ghost in the Shell.

-B!

I, ah, pretty much pulled it out of nowhere. I can make stuff up like that real easy, and I haven't any idea why.
Heh, give me a topic and I'll spit something out, eh? :3

That so reminds me of something from that animated Matrix movie.

Well done. Sound svery very deep.

-B!

Thanks!

I've been watching your art for a little while now, and at it's core, you haven't changed much from the days when SMT was in full swing and Chrushed and Wheasel Boy were in their prime. I've been enjoying your latest art, but this one, I really felt I should comment on, because this is the first one to really speak to me. As someone who has been though more than his share of pain and grief, I can understand the lure of slowly sacrificing my physical body for a mechanical one. This is an idea that you've portrayed, very beautifully, I think.

Well thanks, although I would hope i've at least changed a bit. I am ever striving to make myself a bit more skilled as the days go by.

-B!

Really, I'm the wrong person to ask on that account. Once a person gets above a certain skill level, unless the change is so dramatic as to be obvious, in most cases I won't really notice. Mostly, what I'm seeing is the same high quality you've always drawn it.