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Artist // Hobbyist // Varied
My Bio

Hi Guys, my area of interest is hand-drawn action scenes, usually featuring realistic martial arts. I tend to do key poses, fan art of transformers, marvel, dc, old school anime, games and I work on comics these days with original characters.


Third Year Graduate of 3D animation at Ravensbourne College, London. Been working freelance for a few years on short films and music videos as 3d artist. These days I am happily working on Commission comics featuring original characters, making covers as well, its helping with my storytelling and artistic talent.


I enjoy digital painting and traditional drawing. I like to draw in a stylized cartoony fashion, but I want my characters to have a few teeth, not be cutesy :) (tho I am not above a bit of lightheartedness in my work ^_^) I tend to draw my characters "realistically proportioned", even if they are cartoony in nature, I have always been a fan of the martial arts movie genre, kung fu, modern-day, etc as well as get my start in the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons, born mid 80's so about the time the superhero genre (buff muscular heroes) was on the way out and enter wacky anthro comedy characters, guess I wasn't fully ready to move on from the over the top squarely heroic characters and my work has ended up as a combination of the best of both ^_^ I have as of late come to appreciate the wacky cartoons of the '90s, I understand the humor and cleverness way better, I was probably abit butt hurt my Thundercats and He-man and Fist of the North Star and the like were falling out of favor with general audiences before I was ready to move on, preaching messages of "love,honor,integrity, loyalty and courage really Really sing to a young man". Ah well, I take my time now revisiting them, taking in as much of the craft as possible! ^_^


I draw cartoony or anthro characters because I have more fun drawing exaggerated expressions. It can be hard to convey to the reader what emotion the character is feeling from moment to moment when two or more silent characters are in a back and forth fight, and also not taking up valuable page real estate explaining it to the reader, so I have found this works out pretty well so far. Also, I think because of my animation background in 3d, I am much more fascinated than ever before about anatomy, how weight is distributed, how you balance in a martial arts stance for instance. I have been on a journey of discovering as much knowledge about the "intelligent technology" of the human body as I can. Laboring to get as much of that in my work as I can, usually taking the form of exhaustive tiny detail on where pressure is being applied in a chokehold for instance or action and reaction, showing how a person's body rag-dolls or flops over when hit, that stuff matter, it creates consequence. So yeah I am on a journey to convey "reality" in an over the top fashion, I guess. I don't have all the answers, but that's the beauty, there is no limit to how much knowledge you can acquire, it's just on you to tap out when you feel enough is enough, right now I am very hungry, and very keen to explore ^_^


Favourite Visual Artist
Stylized and cartoonish is the way to go for me, animation art, not too little, not too much, ala classic golden/ silver age DC/Marvel. I love the sprite pixel animation of Capcoms 2D fighters, love the musculature :)_abit of a digital nomad
Favourite Movies
First movie I fell in love with was 1986 transformers the movie. Best animation and sound track!By far the biggest movie to impact on my life of late is the AVENGERS. Most Huge inspiration for me as an artist,that and TERMINATOR 2!
Favourite TV Shows
probably stuff like Breaking bad, jojo's bizarre adventures, just any show that gets you paying attention to the details
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
hmm, as of this writing im cosistently listening to Hammerfall, Bloodbound, the Cure and skillet. would not call myself a music person, i just like songs, mostly rock and metal and the like, other than that aint got a Damn clue! >.<
Favourite Books
get back to ya on that, am just reading marvel graphic novels at the mo
Favourite Writers
lol dunno
Favourite Games
metal gear solid, urban reign ( i play it a Shit ton, so guess it might aswell be my favorite) I like Castlevaina Drcula x and Super Castlevania4, trying to finish final fantasy 8, got 10, 10-2 and 12, do like me some fighting games and other such stuff
Favourite Gaming Platform
playstation 1 2 and 3, 2 particularly.
Tools of the Trade
pen, paper, pencil and preferably a desk to work on,photoshop Oh and fuck ton of sharpie colour pens, permanent markers, tombo grey brush pens and black pens of different point size
Other Interests
martial arts, kung fu movies, tv shows of the live action and anime variety, meeting up, going to the pub, socialimitasions, going to conventions to check out the swanky gear and am a practical joker ^_^
Hi everyone, Alexbaxthedarkside here, as well you know I post a new fan art doodles up on here fortnightly on a Tuesday, I'm afraid that won't be possible due to my circumstances being abit up in the air, I'm away from my setup at least until April (for now anyway , could be sooner), so I'm just taking some time for myself for now. Please enjoy what art I have on my profile, I will still be keeping up with my drawings where I can it just maybe a while before I can share it with all of you. Thankyou you so much for all your warm engagement with my content! There is still Big plans in the works it's all just on hold for the time being until I am back up and running. I can't really accept any new commission requests presently, that shouldn't stop you putting down that your interested, just a short description of what you are after and just leave it at that with me and I will get back to you on it when I can. If you'd like a way to support me there's always PayPal me PayPal.me/Alexbax Not compulsory or anything just if you'd like to chip in in some small way while I go through what I am going through ATM, any amount no matter how small is welcome, I won't be able to accept it as future payment for anything, it's just if you've loved my content over the years and wish to show your appreciation monetarily the options is there, If there is some other way you'd like to support me please private message me on here and I will put an update on here if other options open up in future. (Please private message me if you tried the paypal.me and it didn't work and we'll see what we can do). Again totally optional, my art has always been fueled by passion and a drive for excellence in the things I value, I like to be paid for original creations, but in my life at the moment I am just opening up to other possibilities for now n we'll see what comes of it. :) Mental well being wise I am fine, it's more like life has forced me to hit the breaks all of a sudden while things work the selves out, it hurts me greatly to be away from my setup and from keeping you guys kept up with new n cool things to check out on my channel but life has thrown me a pretty unexpected curve ball and we'll see where things land. Take care everyone and we shall meet again soon of that I am sure! Of course I will update on here should I be up on my feet sooner than expected. Regards, Axi
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Bloody Roar question, if there was to be an Anime/OVA adaptation, which game should influence the overall look?

14 votes
Bloody Roar 1, OG all the way!
Bloody Roar 2, I like the look of that one!
Bloody Roar 3!
Bloody Roar Primal Fury/ Extreme- that one had the best overall look!
Bloody Roar 4 had the best look!
A mix, just cherry pick the best of all the games!
None of the above,I am ready for something different, spiritual remake
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Attack on Titan question, who would you like to see win in a fight between Eren's Attack Titan or the Female Titan?

15 votes
Attack Titan!
Female Titan!
Draw!
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What do you think of my Forgotten Tales idea?

how much are you going to pay me to give you an honest opinion?

Thank you! Right now, I'm just looking for forgotten and obscure characters to put in the show I'm making. Do you have any suggestions for forgotten characters you would like to see in my show?

no thanks, just do what you want to do with it.

if you are looking for a consultation, it will cost you.

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I'm creating a cartoon. It's called, Forgotten Tales! It's about these forgotten and obscure characters that no one remembers from media going on wacky and crazy adventures.

Happy New Year^^

You are awesome.