Posts Tagged ‘video games’

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CCS Diary Comic # 11

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I’m constantly catching myself humming songs from games and cartoons that I haven’t heard for five, ten, or even twenty years. This is one of those times…

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Daily Sketchbook Comic

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CCS Facebook 2010

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This ain’t your grandkid’s Facebook. The Center for Cartoon Studies Facebook is one of the first major projects undertaken by new students each year. The idea is simple: everyone creates a bio that can be reproduced on a photocopier, and a self-portrait in the form of a screen print. Then everything is bound together to make a book of memories and friendship that students will cherish into old age when they are impoverished and alone from a lifetime of underappreciated cartooning.

I volunteered to be on the design team, along with Bill Bedard, Melanie Gillman, Sean Knickerbocker, and Katie Moody. After much nerdy discussion, we decided to work with an arcade fighting game theme for this year’s Facebook. So, Street Fighter II is what I’m trying to say, I guess.

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Window Panes and Panels

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Window gazing on a lazy Saturday morning, coffee shop drawings, and thoughts of pixels…

The 8-bit comic was re-done for one of my dailies, but I think I like this version better.

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More Little Strips and Digital Blips

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Your hands are like dogs, going to the same places they’ve been. You have to be careful when playing is no longer in the mind but in the fingers, going to happy places. You have to break them of their habits or you don’t explore; you only play what is confident and pleasing.

- Tom Waits

When drawing in my sketchbook I always struggle with this. It becomes too easy to just draw the same things over and over again– the things that worked once or twice.

So to shake things up a little, I’ve taken to drawing spontaneous and quick comic strips. Usually they start with a title or an image, and then I have to quickly complete them for good or bad.

Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t.

Other times I draw characters from Zelda instead of Mario.

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Linus and Line Us

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As a kid, my summers were often spent visiting my grandparents in Regina Beach. There used to be a little book store in the town from which my folks purchased a number of Peanuts collections in pocket book format.

I spent weeks poring over the little drawings. The covers always struck me as odd because Charlie Brown’s shirt was always coloured red … probably to reduce the number of colours needed for printing. Anyway, I only recently realized this when I went to colour Chuck with a red ballpoint pen.

And what was with the shape of Linus’ head anyway? He must have taken a pretty bad hit sometime in the 1970s.

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