Been kinda busy, my apologies for missing a few days of posts. I realize that this isn't a pulitzer winning cartoon, but it was fun to draw and color. I think the shine on the windows and the clouds turned out nicely.
This piece also taught me a lesson about getting my perspective correct during the sketch. While it's not 100% in the drawing, it's FAR better than it was thanks to some digital trickery.
This toon has been lingering around all year. Went through some revisions and came out the other side stronger. Heck, I was revising it - adding dents to the sports car - even after I started coloring it.
For you locals, texting while driving became illegal, in Virginia, on July 1.
Worked on this while watching Miss Marple last night.
These two are long running characters in my sketch book. They are from abio/mechanical race. While they do wear armour, it's hard to tell where it starts and their bodies begin.
For centuries their culture was divided into a strict caste system. The warrior caste, to which they - titularly - belong was particularly insular. Eugenics programs designed to breed better warriors eventually led to inbreeding and physical mutations. While the castes have, ostensibly, been dissolved for hundreds of years, many of the warrior line still bear disfiguring mutations.
There is a bit of digital work in here, though it's about 96% pen, ink and pencil. Part of the background is obviously digital - the pencils didn't scan well - but the rest of the cleanup and additions blend pretty seamlessly.
Meant to post this last week, but the holiday got me all out of whack. I feel I should add that in six years of cartooning, this is the first time I've ever HAD to have an African American in the cartoon. I caricatured a few, specific, white men and women, and one asian man, but this is the first specific black guy.
I posted some barely started inks to this piece a while back. Anyway, these are the finished(?) inks and half an hour of colors.
I had a ton of problems with the original inks, and I have even more problems now. Murray Tinkelman once said to me "if your fly is down, you can set your hair on fire to distract from it, but it's far easier just to zip up your pants." I spent my whole morning setting my hair on fire with this piece. It's time to zip up my pants and move onto something new.
My editor surprised me this morning by moving the deadline from tomorrow to today. As you can guess that put a bit of a rush on this toon.
I used a nib pen on some of the inks and experimented with paintbrushes and blurs, in Photoshop, to emulate the watercolor/inks of Chuck Schulz. I'm not a huge fan of reusing other peoples gags. But the football gag is a really iconic reference, and fits the bill in this case.
Nice little action doodle. Did this using my Rotring sketch pen, basically a fountain pen for drawing. I has nice line to it. The ink flows very freely so you can be very gestural with it. Big day, have to go help with Combichrist and all the other bands at Jaxx.
This is actually the revised sketch for the fourth of July cartoon. The original one had Obama smiling, and even though it was smaller and rougher, it looked more like him. Partly I think that is because we the President smiling allot. Course it could be my original sketch was simply better. lol.
Oh, he's off center because I needed to leave room for Rocky reading a newspaper. It's the second newspaper we've used recently, which means I've got to nix it as a prop for a few months.
FYI: Have an extra pup, and a e13m in the house so I won't be bugging you much today. Hope everyone hass agreeat weekend, hope to see some of you at Spellbound's Zombie night tomorrow.
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