A few months back, my two youngest bros and myself had a little art battle which I summarily won quite handily. This weekend, as I was visiting my folks, we held another one. Same premise: each person chooses a picture, all three must draw said picture to the best of their ability. All laying around my iPad, the battle began.

[gallery=Joe's Pick - Wind Waker Link]Steve's Version[/img] My Version[/img][/gallery] I would've figured Joe would have this in the bag as he draws Wind Waker Link A LOT and without reference, even. But, such was not to be. As can be seen, I got a little bored waiting for everybody to finish.

[gallery=Steve's Pick - L from Death Note][/gallery] Now, I will go on record and say I didn't like the chosen picture much, but there it is. I'd actually call this a three way tie because we all hit and miss aspects of the picture (there's something going on with the eyes on mine).

[gallery=Matt's Pick - Haqua from World God Only Knows][/gallery] Joe decided to sit this one out for whatever reason pretty much leaving me the winner by default. Both Steve and I quit prematurely because we were getting bored with the whole thing. I'm just happy mine doesn't look "lumpy" and even Chris agreed.

So, there it is. Our second art battle with me, yet again, taking away the trophy. I think next time we should try not copying a source image and just toss out a subject to draw. It could very well level the playing field. All in good fun, though.

Couldn't pass up the opportunity to jump the this meme's bandwagon.

So, Tokyo in Tulsa has come to a close for the year, ending the fourth convention I've been to and the first where I've actually cosplayed at. Yes, I've teased you all long enough. Feast your eyes on the 100% sexiness below:

It's a male variant of Squid Girl, and I'll take over this squidding planet!

Check out the rest of the pics after the break (there's a lot, 56k warning).

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Today was the first of our three day long anime convention that is Tokyo in Tulsa. Before you ask, I did not cosplay today. That will be for tomorrow, the largest and busiest day of the con. So far, this year has far and away kicked the pants off of TnT last year. The panels have been better so far (thank you, Todd Haberkorn; you are truly hilarious) and the fact that they acquired the convention center over the cramped hotel has made it much nicer, though it's still cramped. Good times were had and I hope tomorrow will go even better.

But, you want pictures. So pictures you will have. Hit them after the break.

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Cherry (off brand) Pop Tarts - $1.50 Three packages of Skittles - $3 Bag of white chocolate chips - $2 Canon Vixia HV30 - $600 Blowing a Sunday evening making a dumb ass video? Expensive