Suffering from a self-inflicted state of being rusty at posting, I’ll keep this short and sweet. The other day I was dropping off one of my boys at the bus, and asked him what was going on at school today. He informed me it was Cobra day, though it took me half a second to hear that clearly. This fact…
Category: General / Random
My wage is 85 product preference facts an hour!
At work yesterday, Pierre passed along a link, featuring a type of paywall he (nor myself) had ever come across before. This Nexus 5 review at KnowYourMobile.com allows you to read the first tast of their page, then blocks the rest of the content until you pay the piper for the rest. Paywalls are a common practice now for a…
Sketch of the Day: Captain Carrot
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…
Sketch of the Day: A-man okay
Quick sketch of the day to toss at ya. One day (a bit trimmer ago, and enough stubble up top to warrant a few scratches of ink) Annoying Man let me try on his suit when he wasn’t looking. And yes, that is upside-down Michael Cowpland standing in an old Corel logo. And yes, that is my old hamster powered…
The Fountains Controversy
Fountains. They can be found just about anywhere in the world. Are they a testament to beauty? To human ingenuity and craftsmanship? Or are they a gross desensitization experiment to selective, repulsive things. Like cat vomit. Well at least lion vomit. I didn’t have this epiphany until walking by this beautiful fountain housed within central park in Winnipeg. Don’t worry,…
Keeping out of trouble
Yes, another smidgen of a hiatus from the drawing end of things. Artistically I’ve been keeping a trickle going with the girls’ animation course. Will have some new work schemed up tomorrow. Technically, just a bit of prep to deliver some WordPress training. Other than that? Keeping out of trouble. There was an incident with some madballs, but I think…
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 1
The final chapter! And this may prove to be the most abstract. So let’s commence with the bizarro drawing first then follow it up with the explanation. This may need a quick recap if you’re just jumping on now. We’ve been exploring the creation of the idea of Annoying Man; fearless leader of the Cropcrushers of the 23rd Century. We’d…
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.…
Interlude!
Been a bit too busy to properly post my next installment. Here is a great video interlude! Wouldn’t it be nice if you only worry was where to get the next gold shipment (I’m speaking hypothetically here – not condoning theft) will come from to complete that gold statue of yourself you’d always had a hankering to do? Here I…
How Annoying Man got annoying, Step 5
Last post we looked at the end point of solidifying who exactly this Annoying Man character is. Now we’ll move one step back in the process to get closer to the raw origins. This sketch is one of the earlier renderings. In the processes of doing this I made a couple of important observations. First off, colours. Right? The idea is that Annoying…