crashdummie - Digital Artist

crashdummie

Certainly not a dummy.

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About crashdummie

Artist // Digital Art

Aug 27, 1989
Canada
Deviant for 12 years
theslasherscomic.com/
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My Bio

Hey everyone, I'm Alex Martel, a tall bearded bloke from Québec, Canada. I'm a graphic designer by profession but a comic book artist by heart. I'm currently doing a comic called "The Slashers" that both parodies and pays hommage to horror movies, classics and not so classics. Rest assured that they're NOT drawn in a chibi/manga style (I consider my style much more European than anything else. Comics like Astérix, Achilles Talon and Kid Paddle were big influences), and the characters don't behave COMPLETELY differently from their movie counterparts. Either way, check it out: you may be surprised.

Come check out The Slashers's website at theslasherscomic.com/ !

Current Residence: Québec
Favourite genre of music: Rock
Favourite style of art: Cartoon, Super Heroes
Operating System: Mac
MP3 player of choice: i-tunes
Shell of choice: Koopa Shells
Favourite cartoon character: The Incredible Hulk, Wile E. Coyote, Daffy Duck
Personal Quote: Crash Smash!!!

Favourite Visual Artist

John Romita Jr, Sal Buscema, Midam, John K.

Favourite Movies

Rocky

Favourite TV Shows

Clone High, the old Looney Tunes and Ren and Stimpy

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Winwood, Dylan, Beatles, Beach Boys, Zevon, Springsteen, Holly, Valens and many more.

Favourite Books

It might not be a classic novel, but Watchmen had quite an effect on me.

Favourite Writers

Lovecraft

Favourite Games

Ocarina of Time, Super Mario Bros. 1 through 3, River City Ransom, Kirby's Adventure, Streets of Rage 2 (the remake as well)

Favourite Gaming Platform

Nintendo Entertainment System

Tools of the Trade

Adobe Creative Suit and a Wacom Bamboo

Other Interests

Drawing, graphic arts, comic books, movies, video games, wrestling

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Holla? by crashdummie, journal

Holla?

Jan 26, 2012

I've finally gotten the itch to draw again. Feels good. Things have been going great at work, and I managed to create good designs and never looked too long at a blank page, but it was different at home. I hadn't felt motivated about anything for a while. Not just art, but other hobbies and projects as well. I'm not gonna dwelve too far into the details, but I went through a lot of self doubt. I didn't think my comics were that good. I've always had some natural talent at it, and I still believe most of them are pretty funny and the ideas behind them are rather novel/unique, but as far as the art itself went, I wasn't feeling satisfied. Mos

You guys are great by crashdummie, journal

You guys are great

Jul 14, 2011

I'm gone and leave you updateless for what seems like forever, and you're still reading, commenting and faving the comics. Thanks for the support, you readers are amazing! I don't really have any good excuse for not putting out comics for so long other than I've been working about as much as home as I've been at the day job for months, so whenever I had SOME free time, I just felt like spending it with my girlfriend, friends or Minecraft. The Slashers are definitely not dead. Perhaps they've been in a state of suspended animation for a good while, but not dead. I cannot give you a date as for when the next comic will be up, and I'd rather