Metapost: Webcomic Overlook, lucha version
Submitted by El Santo on June 23, 2009 - 02:38
As you may have noticed, things are looking a little different around here. Thing is, this page was due for a refresh. I was never 100% with using the old banner, as it could be interpreted as an endorsement of the webcomics shown. It was meant to be temporary, but it somehow lasted over a year.
Well, I managed to put together some drawings to come up with a new, more luchadore-themed blog. Here it is in poster form.
The rest of this post isnâ€™t going to be webcomic related. But, if you want a somewhat in-depth breakdown on where the pictures came from, keep going.
The image of El Santo, me, isnâ€™t from a picture of me at all. I actually photo-referenced an image of Blue Demon (whose mask I wear). Above all, the guy was a damn snazzy dresser. I was tempted to use a picture where he was wearing a snazzy suit, but the pose was too awesome not to use.
I photo-referenced edecanes Roxana for the ring girl. She wasnâ€™t originally supposed to be in the header prominently, but I figured I spent a butt-load of time drawing and coloringâ€¦ I might as well add her somewhere prominently.
Finally, the Webcomic Man had the body of the late, great Eddie Guerrero and the face of â€¦ um â€¦ an iPod Touch. If you look closely, thereâ€™s an actual webcomic displayed on the screen. (Of my own invention. Take that, people who keep challenging me to make my own webcomic!) Apparently, itâ€™s a pretty good comic, since Webcomic Man is sporting five stars on his left moob.
Then I got really cheap and destroyed all my hard coloring world by rendering everything in half-tone. That and the yellowish background is a callback to the great lucha libre posters aesthetic:
â€¦. while the shameless cheescake is itself a lucha libre tradition:
Though, if you really want to get down to the brass tacks, this was probably my biggest influence. Câ€™mon, ya little placemat!
Iâ€™m not done updating. Iâ€™m hoping to update the â€œboxing girlâ€ logo in the One-Punch Reviews header. She stays, of course, but sheâ€™s probably feeling a bit left out of the whole color revolution.