Magazine Popeye Issue

This is the second issue of my Publication Design class project, a magazine on cartooning and comics. It's a feature on Popeye's "Thimble Theater" re-issues. Work still in progress. I did NOT create any of the content, including photos, drawings, and the article itself. The authors of their respective work reserve their rights to it. Also note that this is not a commercial publication, but a project for class.

Magazine JohnK Issue

I'm designing 3 issues of a magazine for my Publication Design class. The magazine is about cartoons and comics. Here's an issue currently in progress, on John Kricfalusi. I did NOT create any of the content, including photos, drawings, and the article itself. The authors of their respective work reserve their rights to it. Also note that this is not a commercial publication, but a project for class.

Some creepy Don Knotts guy.

Ghost World is a "graphic novel" by Daniel Clowes, which was made into a movie in 1999. One of the most striking things about the book is that all of the panels use a cyan wash for shading, as if the characters are perpetually sitting in front of a TV set in a darkened room. Or maybe you're the one in front of the TV, watching the characters...both the book and movie have a patient, voyeuristic tone.

The graphic novel has the guy above as a psychic who hangs out in a suburban cafe Enid Coleslaw, one of the main characters, frequents. She calls him "some creepy Don Knotts guy". In the movie, Steve Buscemi (who kind of looks like Don Knotts) is cast as Enid's middle aged buddy.

Felix monsters

This sketch is based on a dream I had a year or so ago. These horrible, cat-eyed aliens were eating people and trying to collect genetic samples for a human farm.

Major

My college is holding a poster contest to promote one major or another. My original idea was some shitty watercolor concept involving fishies. I bought illustration board, I took out a book from the library on painting, I practiced, I did a wash, I sketched in the elements I wanted, I colored it in with pencil over the paint...and I hated it so much I started completely over.

Look, I don't like to paint. I like drawing cartoons. So I decided that the best concept would use the fact that that I can draw in ink halfway decently. It would also have to be something I cared about. Not fishies. I mean, I like a nice lemony tuna or salmon, but mostly I don't give a shit.

I made the original sketch for this in art history class. Then I did an extremely rough, light sketch directly on the paper I was using, shaped it up a little, and inked it, without transferring it or doing any more preliminary work than the notebook drawing. I've been reading John K's blog, and I am impressed by how he preserves spontaneity in his final drawings. He does construct his characters, and very carefully, but they never come out looking stiff. I also kept in mind his theories of how to draw facial features and expressions as I inked.

I attempted to give some idea of hierarchy by using Sharpies of varying width, but I think I could have done a better job on this. The monkey's hands should have been done entirely with a smaller marker.

I tried digitally coloring it, but it didn't work well at all. The colored pencils I used instead were surprisingly good. I'll take a picture of it later.

Scribbles (moreso)

For the school paper

Inked.


Pencils.


Rough.


Idea.


Idea.


Original sketch.

Ever more requests

These are some more drawings I made for the "good" *ahem* "people" um of GameFAQs. These were pencil sketches built up from basic shapes, clothed/furred, and inked. I think the last time I bothered to go through so much trouble was for my Howling Black comic, still unfinished. However, I've gotten a lot faster at it.

I enrolled in CUNY for art courses this March. I'm really excited about it!



DR583V3 wanted a giant pitbull fighting a roided up badger.



User Cosmic requested "A turtle dressed up in a cliche'd detective's outfit."

A teddy bear being chased through a field by Conan O'Brian while flaming pieces of toast fly overhead.

As requested by KiddotheKid, on GameFAQs

Even more GameFAQs Requests

My drawing request topic on GameFAQs.com got some more posts from the kids and weirdos over there.

Applepieman3 suggested I draw "a woman with large breast lifting weights, but the weights aren't normal weights, they are large pieces of ham."



DrFail asked me to draw him, but I have no idea what he looks like, so I drew JD from "Scrubs" instead. He doesn't have a beard because I hate the beard he has this season and I'm going to pretend it doesn't exist.



Punisher1 held true to the Internet's unsavory reputation and asked for a naked Smurfette.



SecuROM_ asked for some "anime-style" characters.



I don't really hate anime...that much.

A bunch of other people asked for stuff, but I decided to be lazy and ignore them. Maybe I'll get to them later.

EDIT: Friend and MrZopo both wanted me to draw them, and they got what-for. MrZopo in particular is proof that I occasionally watch anime, since I drew him based off of my weak remembering of Mr.Popo (how did he EVER get past the censors?) from DragonBall Z.

More GameFAQs Requests

My topic on GameFAQs.com continued with more requests from the hordes of geeks and teenage boys who populate the site.

ExRacerJames wanted a sad hotdog caught between a very angry mustard and ketchup.



Porobin Hood wanted a "hyena-dude built like a linebacker staring down a hedgehog girl with a look like 'you're food :3'". I think he MIGHT be a furry, but then again he didn't specify that the hedgehog girl be slutty and naughty.



Fenrir the Wolf was a wiseass and wanted me to draw fried milk...but I delivered.

GameFAQs requests

I made a topic on GameFAQs.com asking the geeks there to make drawing requests.

Jesustime (yes, Jesustime) wanted sword-chucks.



Desert_fox7 wanted a drawing of himself...only naked. I don't know what he looks like, but Internet people seem to like their naked foxes slutty and naughty, so I went with it.



KageShinobi suggested "ninja lesbians breastfeeding", which sounded great but was too high concept. I mean, ninjas pretty much wear slim-fit burkas, so how can you tell that they're lesbians or see their breasts anyway?

Finally, Vampire HunterC127 wanted the Pope shaking a cow's hand, or hoof, or appendage.

Pippi and Poster

This guy's name is Avi, I think. He is sitting in an alley, but I am too lazy to draw in the brick wall. I did a lot of underdrawing and erasing for this one. First I sketched out some ideas of him sitting in a box, looking up at the poster. Then I decided it was too hard, and decided on a triangular shape for his sitting position, with his nose pointing at the poster to get your eye to follow. This guy's face is hard to draw because his bushy eyebrows tend to get mixed up into his messy hair. I need to remind myself that people tend to have foreheads.




This is Pippi. She probably looks nothing like this.

More doofs

HA HA HA



Practice.



I don't know why I drew him wearing Converse All Stars. I hate Converse All Stars. All the cool kiddies wear them as some sort of statement, even though they're expensive, kind of ugly, and made out of canvas that frays and gets soaked when the weather is bad.

They're just easy to draw, I guess.

The Derivative Mr. Doof

Bored during the census test

This was drawn on the back of a list of locations for math finals, which I ripped off a bulletin board before the test began.