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TODAY'S addition is but part of a wider scene I am just finishing off; this is a T-Zer from a satire about me joining other forum [s] with my new artwork. The final , finito cartoon will be unveiled on here very soon----I am just adding the color now. Plate One: the finished statue element Plate Two:    the original rough cartoon

THE FLY is most likely my own personal favorite cartoon project: BABY BOOMER is much more flexible and far-reaching, but the somewhat limited 'mad scientist' scenario within the fly-toons shown here thus far manages to somehow eke out some really striking imagery: this material is completely anarchic and uninhibited, it is an absolute joy to dream up. The scientist's wife seen here is called HELLEYNE, a satirical spin on the female lead  character from the 1958 sci-fi film, who is named Helene. It is a real challenge, trying to get such a horrible subject as houseflies to 'look cute', dear reader, but below you can see proof that it can in fact be done! So---why is Helleyne clutching a single rubber glove, as shown here? ---I have no idea; these individual quirks just spring into the mind while creating the drawing, and I never question this mystery---it usually stays in. Plate One: the finished cartoon Plate Two;     the characters after basic cleanup Plate Three: ...

OK, Don't say that I don't serve you up diversity, readers!: My earliest successes using digital color involved creating cartoon logos [see earlier entries on here, circa 2011] and so after a long absence on this score, I have returned with this all-new satirical version......clearly based on a very well-known major movie studio logo [ no, not 20th Century Fox!]  No reference pictures of any kind were involved in creating this, I am happy to report---also proof, if it were ever needed, that you do not need expensive gear to do imagery like this------all I used here was: recycled sheet of A4 paper [cost: zilch] ancient 4H pencil, the same one I have created hundreds of drawings with BIRO BALLPOINT PEN: 25 cents FREE GIMP digital manipulation service: does over 90 per cent of what Photoshop does  -The only 'real' cost was the electricity required to power the computer. Plate One:   the finito version Plate two: the basic design after correction and cleanup Plate Three: ...

Today's offering comes courtesy of my embryonic Medievel Worldes series, with no less than the Hunchback/Quasimodo putting in a guest appearance........ This image is the first in a 'new' technique I am utilizing, in which seperate composites are overlaid  on top of a rough but accurate pencil-sketch background: [ in this first case, the floorline/background wall stone placement/ the framing of the large window] : up until now, I was either 'dropping in' a wholly seperate background [a bit hit and miss, that one: you can\t move the characters around the same] . or doing a 'cut-out' of the characters, which offers greater freedom, but can be pretty time-consuming]... Using this 'new' approach of more accurate pencil layouts, I can alter the various character elements for a hopefully more pleasing composition. This method  gives me a more 'airy', spaced-out result , not possible if I were to draw all this on one A4 sheet; all I require for this...

Here we see BB looking like a 'toff' [British term] or a 'swell' [American term] in this natty li'i ole character study: I am unashamedly anti-P.C. and so I like to slip in a wholly irresponsible image now and again, like the Babular One seen here enjoying a smokin' cigar.. I do not smoke myself but I think smoking looks cool in cartoons---shame this sort of thing is largely tabboo in most publications for the mass media nowadays.... This drawing also contains another 'first': BB has 'baby-blue' eyes here, which has turned out OK, after his years of 'black inkspot' eyes---ah, the march of progress! Plate One: the finished color toon Plate Two:    the color character and elements awaiting rearranging Plate Three:    the original ballpoint drawing, complete with tear in top-right side of paper---I use recycled paper to great effect.

THE FLY cartoon imagery easily produces the most striking visuals from any of my various fantasy concepts: it's incredibly strange, very bizarre character stuff that provides seemingly endless scope for absurdist escapism and mayhem. I certainly needed something containing 'hard science-fiction' to provide an outlet for such material; BABY BOOMER   provides a very handy outlet for most of my fantasy-themed requirements, but trial-and-error experiments on that project never really worked out too well when I tried out sci-fi themes within that format. I have actually managed to get 'character' stuff into this very odd material [as is evident here] : the two mutants seem to be getting along just swell, going by the 'beer sharing' scenario seen here. This close-up view strikes me [after completing the cartoon] as being inspired by---of all people---the legendary Dudley D Watkins, in the effective  close-ups he often did of Tom Thumb in the 1960s BIMBO nursery co...

Just tonite recieved [thru a well-known social meeja site] this drawing-related item, which is very unusual inasmuch as it is only the second image on this archive that is not actually drawn by me------unknown to me, I was being secretly drawn by a clandestine artist during my stay in New York, at the Jazz Cafe near Central Park-----------in walking distance from the spot where John Lennon was shot. This is a fair likeness of me alongside  a budding young film-maker called David Zoel from Minneapolis , who furnished me with this image---it has a Crumb-like ambience and makes a nice change.  Drawn by an Oz artist called Dom. second picture:  me today, finishing a weekend bevvy between drawings,  for a  likeness-comparison