So I used to read a stellar DC comic titled Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew. Truth be told I even purchased back issues as recently as Free Comic Book Day this spring when the boys and I were out galavanting. This was my retake on Captain Carrot. A modernizing of the anthropomorphic hero and a few of his…
Category: Sci-Fantasy
Sketch of the Day – newest Garbage Pail Kid!
Inspiration. As I may have alluded once or twice in this blog – it comes from strange places. Today I was shuttling some of the kids around to various fun events. During one of those shuttle periods I happened to be listening to a CBC Radio comedy sketch. In it I learned the term “YOLO” for the first time. “You…
Sketch of the Day – Pole DanGCer
Time for a fresh sketch, hot off the left-handed presses! I’ve been stewing over this fact the last few days. Of the ranks of the Cropcrushers of the 23rd Century, I had yet to enlist a female heroine. So who to make? Who to add? Someone that would reflect well on women in comics, and not be a sexist trope?…
Dwarf language challenge to WIN, WIN, WIN!
Been needing to post for a while, so let’s make this one a doozy! Recently we had a family outing to watch The Hobbit. I’d read the book a couple of times, and had fairly recently finished reading it with the boys. Grahme, wanting to learn the ways of the true geek, didn’t get enough just reading it. Needing more,…
How Annoying Man got annoying, Step 3…2…
And we’re back! It’s continued to be a busy couple of days; but I finally find myself in some transitionary moments to pinch out another post. And since we’re talking about pinching, you may notice from the sketch below that we’ve got some o dat going on! Gaze in amazement as Captain Too Big attempts to hold a pill bottle…
How Annoying Man got annoying, Step 4
Alright, it’s time to travel further upstream to the origins of Annoying Man. Now this is the (potentially funny/ironic) divergent part. Annoying Man is not seen pre-step 5. Well, not until my big Inception-like reveal. See, Annoying Man was cooked up as a complimentary character to his sidekick Yo-yo Bug Boy. And Yo-yo Bug Boy is not even a character.…
Quick Quiz – Do you know your sci-fi/fantasy heros?
Alright, I’m set to post a 6-part, countdown series on the strange art of creative thinking. However, I’ve run out of time to write the first one! So we shall break for a commercial interruption. Like any true geek I’ve got a few hidden bits that show my colours. Like waving a flag quietly behind a shut door (yay). One…
Branabush – PhotoShop complete
…and then you do a little more, and you end up with a complete digital image! Lol, there’s always more to do than you can easily explain (other than ‘apply some time and effort). Some of that extra effort can be described in trick-of-the-trade terms however. For instance, when I was done creating shadow layers for this file I did…
Branabush, uhhhh, the legend continues?
I won’t say much about this other than it’s a work in process. PhotoShop colouring technique involes: Scan in line art Turn line art layer on to “Multiply” blend mode Create major colour blocks on separate layers (easier to apply effects and textures during final run Create separate shade layers. Mess with opacity level of each until you get the…
Branabush – the legend begins here
Back to art month! last post I took care of some arty sensibilities from a different end of things. Abusing PhotoShop to get in on the meme. Today is back to practical basics, and I’ll split it into a few parts. I decided to re-sketch and redesign an old character of mine. Branabush, who yes, is a direct rip off…
Pop goes the world
I don’t know about you, but I grew up in a time and day where we were taught as children that there were enough nuclear arms to destroy the planet 10 (or 20?) times over. So you’ll imagine my surprise when I come across this link on my Blastr geek news feed that states: …Hey, got a one-megaton nuclear bomb…
The Dark Matter of Dreams
So I had a strange dream last night. Enough I decided to jot down the highlights. I have a blog. You do the math :p Heh, yes I figured I would catalog this one strange dream here and invite you to come to whatever conclusions of what dreams mean. Dream begins. I’m in on a virtual planetoid. It resembles the…