This week is more bamboo practice.
The first one, that I’m not sure about
The second one, that’s not a neat but much neater.
Here are two versions of a graphic for a story idea I’ve had. I like the clean look of the first one, but not the composition. I like the composition and the rough look of the second one… I just wish it wasn’t so rough all over.
It’s an idea I’m working on for a detective story, with a twist.
Last weeks Black Cat and White Dog. I like this White Dog, but not this Black Cat.
Here’s a look at what was supposed to be last weeks Black Cat & White Dog. I like what I came up with on the fly better, although this White Dog is pretty cool.
Hulk Question
And for no reason what-so-ever… The Hulk questioning what he’s done with his life. Is smashing all there really is?
Today’s post is brought to you from my classroom. I teach a class called Scientific Imaging and one of the main goals of the class is to integrate art and science. We just studied the effects of radiation on the human body and figured out how many mrems our distance from a nuclear power plant, our altitude above sea level and the number of x-rays etc. dose our bodies with. Then, of course, we made super hero drawings.
My origin story is that a tricky student substituted my regular pen with one that was filled with radioactive ink. Just as a I was attaching the F to a subpar assignment I poked myself and was transformed into a red raging maniac. Now whenever I see an assignment that is not passing I mutate and destroy!
We also talked about how super heroes and villians often come from the things we fear so we tied it back in. There’s more A-team on the way!
Today I had a plan, then I left my plan in the car and so I did a quick redraw. So here’s the new, new Black Cat & White Dog. Black Cat ended up a lot better, White Dog… not so much.
Their first big fight.
Black Cat is an American astronaut that’s capsule crash landed on White Dog’s farm. He is a Russian farmer. The two of them have many reasons to dislike one another.
This week’s post is a hint at more. I did the drawing to face a challenge from one of my students and the coloring is a monochrome to match an assignment that I gave my graphic design students. There’s more color to come for this drawing and more members of the team. Can you guess the team?
Am I growing a third eye?
This week’s post is another attempt to win money from Threadless.com
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Keep walking alien slave.
The other day, while at lunch, I saw a dog wandering around free and it reminded me of a TV special about urban raccoons. It also made me think, “My dog is probably stupider then a raccoon.”
In the special, the urban raccoons did a fine job of navigating their territory; avoiding major highways, finding food, and staying away from people. The dog I saw at lunch was also doing just fine; he wasn’t crossing the road while cars were coming, or attacking people, or running around like an idiot. Two things became clear to me; that my dog, in the same situation, would not perform so well and that he’d probably get himself killed.
That got me thinking about how dogs are sometimes thought of as dumb, by some people, in comparison to cats. So is it true, are cats really all that smart or are they just self sufficient… and it looks like smart… and is that the same thing?
Then I thought that if cats are smarter, which might be true, they are on the flip side much less useful. A dog can do all kinds of cool things to help advance the cause of humanity, where as cats do hardly anything to help. Cats are sorta jerks in that way.
Now I was wondering; Are self sufficient cats smart and therefore useless? OR Are they useless and therefore must use their brains to be self sufficient?
You see what I’m wondering is… If dogs are idiots that require our care and direction, did we humans make them that way? And if we did, did we do it because we wanted them to be our slaves? And why didn’t this happen to cats?
Is it because cats served no useful purpose to us, so we never bother to make them reliant upon us?
Along those same lines, if aliens came to Earth and found that horses were much more useful to them then humans, would they take them into their homes and make them their slaves and leave us here to just sit in the metaphorical window of our planet and lick our own metaphorical butts?
Also, how come you never see an alien wearing glasses? I don’t know if, in all of my Sci-Fi watching, I’ve ever seen an alien with glasses.
Wouldn’t it make sense that if humans have found it useful to cover our eyes with specially shaped glass to improve our vision, that aliens would also have stumbled upon this same technology? Or is it just that all aliens have Lasik?
Where are the alien optometrists?
Last week and the weekend were crazy busy. I have several drawings in the works that haven’t been colored yet, but this one is a copy of someone else because I ran out of time. I think I need to start doing more originals and move away from the copies, but for now it’s fun.
This was the original by Jeff Agala (you should definitely google him). After the work about modest super heroes I did a week or two ago i made the top a bit less revealing then Jeff.
This one started with someone elses and then got a mind of its own.
I think she’ll end up a detective character somewhere.
Here’s the inspiration by .
