Author: Alex Heberling

Alex Heberling here. I own the place.

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rosalarian:

nikoanesti:

I’m the opposite. I’m a skinny guy who dresses up like Mario, but I just look like someone cosplaying as Luigi pretending to be Mario. :C

Dear OP,

Maybe fat people cosplay as thin characters because there are so few fat characters that their choices for remaining in their body type are so limited and with so little variety. Being thin (and white), I have such a huge variety of characters I could cosplay as, but the variety for fat folks? Maybe 5% of the kind of choice I have.

Maybe the fat guy doesn’t like Mario. Maybe the fat guy really likes Luigi. Maybe everyone knows Luigi wears green and not read and they’re not really all that confused about what’s going on.

Maybe it’s cosplay and it’s fun and not really your business what somebody else cosplays as.

Please, cosplay whatever the hell you want.

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Me onstage during Super Art Fight at ConnectiCon 2011.  This is my second Art Fight, and I participated in the first ever ROYAL RUMBLE with 12 other artists. Sadly, I only lasted one round. Next time, Gadget, next time.

I’m wearing Lane Bryant. :3

(Photo by Rick Mantell)

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And now for my favorite Minecraft/My Little Pony crossover I have ever drawn (which is to say, the only one) we have My Little Creeper: Friendship is Tragic!

Chris and I came up with some alternate lyrics for the theme song (I used to wonder what friendship could be/Until you all made it tragic for me… …Explosions make it all complete!) but alas, we weren’t able to rewrite the whole thing.

Sold this for five dolla. :D

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So, around two years ago, I made badges of the various village symbols from Naruto, in order to take money from teenagers, which is one of my favorite pastimes.  Well, naturally, the popularity of Naruto waned, and so I discontinued the buttons, and put whatever I had left into my clearance bowl for 25 cents apiece.

These damn Rock Village badges have followed me around ever since.  I still had a handful left, and, realizing I had a white Pentel paint pen with me, I decided to draw on them to make them into… a pair of shoes, a dog, a cow, a Christmas tree, and a turtle.  (The unaltered button is the one on the right.)  Aaaaand some people actually bought a couple of them after I did this.

Then again, a kid bought the last unaltered button and she was disappointed that I’d drawn on the rest of them.