Face it – there’s a lot to hate.  If you’re in a cranky mood about the stultifying SAMENESS of webcomics, then why not download this PDF and see what’s bad about them.  Link opens in new window, option/alt-click to save to desktop:

HEY KIDS!  LET’S ALL HATE WEBCOMICS!

Print it out, save it, send it to someone else, link to this page, etc.  Yes, please.  You see, someone once told me that instead of complaining about bad webcomics, I should make a webcomic – see if I could do better.  These sample frames should probably prove something:

Looks like I cannot do better.

Oh boy, clearly  I cannot do better, so it’s a good thing I do not do this on a regular basis.

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Hello, Monday!  I have a few things for you!

Here’s another hamster sketch comic.  As mentioned before, these are made in Gesture Drawing class with Mark McDonnell.  Each panel is a 3 minute sketch and I have zero idea what panel is coming next, so I have to make it all up on the fly.  Which explains the uneven nature of the exercise.  Even so, I find it somewhat amusing, and hope you do, too.

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Do you remember this post?  It was about a sketchbook I had kept in the late part of 2008 and beginning of 2009 for an art project.  A few of those sketches turned up here and there. Oh, and here, too.

But don’t go back and look at those. Now there is this fancy new implementation.  Click on the book and see – the entire sketchbook uploaded in a lovely Flash wrapper.  Not my invention, mind you, just my implementation. Webbook is by Pierrick Calvez.

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Yes, it’s our first iApp for the iPhone and iPod Touch!  Head on over to Panda Cub Productions to get your copy of iMoo, the virtual cow-in-a-can toy.  Or just click this link to go directly to the iTunes Store.  It’s a paltry 99 cents.

Does anyone remember the software that used to be on nakedrabbit.com?  Back in the Upper Jurassic of Computer Time we used to have such wonders as “The Zen Master,” “Mystery God,” and “Underwear Girl.”  We’re making the long slow transition to bring all those properties back – only this time on mobile devices.   Until then, shake a cow-can!

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I’ve been rather lax about including any new sketches, and I’ve made a few.  Maybe you would like to see them.

As usual, you can click on the picture to open a larger version in a new browser window.  These are from the usual Thursday Night Gesture Drawing Class I attend, hosted and taught by Mark McDonnell.

The emphasis is on drawing quickly, but also on capturing as much of the essence of the figure as you can – with a minimum of lines.  Because of those restraints gesture drawing tends to be very stylized, and sometimes cartoony, if you’re interested in cartoons, like me.

Here are some creepier Halloweeny-type sketches from a few weeks ago.

Floating people simultaneously crack me up and worry me overly.  Back to girls – I particularly like the nice ass on this one.

We had a visit from this real-life barbarian warrior.  He slew 14 of the students before we could calm him down from his berserker state.  Here he was a bit knackered, and we got a good chance to draw him at rest.  The police were notified, but no one pressed charges.

I learned this next trick from reading Jim Woodring’s comics.  He had a great dream-story about seeing a woman in his drawing class who drew each successive poses as frames of a comic.  I was always fascinated by that idea, and I began to try it a few years ago.  You can see the results here below.  Keep in mind that these are 3-5 minute poses, max – usually 3′s.  I have no idea what the next pose will be, and even less idea what anyone is going to say or do from panel to panel.

That little hamster figure gets used a lot because he’s easy and fast to draw. Here’s one with no hamster, drawn even scribblier – it guest stars Tintin, of course.

Here are a couple left over drawings to leave things off.  This one is from Wildman’s eye surgery.  An hour before he had a cataract, and now you can see him enjoying a hospital-quality sloppy joe as he makes absolutely no attempt to keep all his bits from falling out of his hospital gown.  Drawn from life as the subject explained to me how great television was in the 1960s.

This Laffin’ Man worries me, but I drew him anyway.

And this one is scribbly, but it seems to me there is something here.

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