You know, there’s nothing worse than “inking” with pencil. I find it’s very distracting from the final work, and when the joke isn’t very clear in the first place, you want all the attention on the punchline. Still, the alternative of simply filling things in with one click sort of feels too lazy for me. Even when I have the option to, I still feel like coloring and inking the old fashioned way on the rare occasions I have fill something in digitally. None of this, however, comes close to describing the satisfaction of stealing from hotels, and for that I sincerely apologize.
Archive for June, 2010
If anyone’s wondering how this little fishie is still alive, by which I mean no one’s wondering that, keep in mind that Paintshop Week is mostly non-canon. Some of you may remember that Sherman’s already showed up before, unfortunately he doesn’t like being called Shelly, at least not most of the time.
Drawing this also made me realize how difficult it is to show a scene underwater. There’s hardly any background you can do without color or making things too distracting and time consuming. It sure makes me appreciate the animators of Spongebob a little more.
Don’t even get me started on time travel. People tend to either underestimate or even overcomplicate time paradoxes all the time, and it’s a serious pet peeve of mine when time travel is just brushed aside as just another form of transportation. Luckily, Hitler’s Time Travel Exemption Act is common enough to show that time travel is never that simple, even if most examples use it for the wrong reasons. At least they’re trying to make sense of things.
One of the problems with me making B comics is that I usually only have one panel or so to change, and it would be a serious waste of time, effort, and cheap office supplies to do them all from scratch, but I can’t just erase the last panel, nor can I waste a new piece of paper for just one panel to copypasta. This means I have to pull out the pantieshop powers, which aren’t bad themselves, except it’s pretty noticeable, and try as I might, I just can’t replicate that pencil feel. Comics would be best if I do them entirely digitally or entirely by hand, not mixed up. Still, enjoy the shopping goodness. Don’t blow all your money on the food court though. That’s just irresponsible and silly.
I never had an actual Buzz Lightyear toy. I was too busy playing with Clifford, crowned prince of Monoland, step-brother of Prince Leo, and sacred warrior of Fire, along with his friends, such as his girlfriend, Princess Emily of Wingaria, and royal advisor Pounce, lover of Princess Scat. All this sounds much more interesting when you take out the fact their adventures were played out by a six year old. Despite all this nostalgia, I can’t hide my excitement over Toy Story 3 though. I’m not much of a moviegoer. At the time of writing this the last three movies I actually saw in a cinema were The Dark Knight, The Simpsons Movie, and The Chronicles of Narnia. I think Toy Story is good enough to break my fasting for now, assuming I don’t get too lazy again. Until then, I have silly doodles and awesome micromixes to keep me i anticipation.
You know, I didn’t notice until drawing these last two comics together that my character designs tend to look alike. Oh who am I kidding, I’ve always known that. There’s only so many hairstyles you can draw and faces don’t leave much for differentiation when they’re nothing but ovals. Speaking of returning things, I was very sad when I realized I missed a perfect chance to draw the old fashioned dark OJ lines, and as you may or may not remember, I have a thing for fun little background effects. I’d like to add them but I’ve already got the OCD counter itching to go up, so now I can’t do anything about it. Uguu.
OCD count: 16
Also, I don’t need to introduce the luvly bubbly Jim Reaper again, but I will cause he’s awesome and gets another cameo. Isn’t that just cooking mama?
As some of you may notice, WordPress just changed my whole layout! If anyone knows a quick way to fix this please help me, otherwise I’ll have to try and fix it all manually. Although it looks like the previous layout I had doesn’t even exist. I’m gonna have to do some archive binging apparently. Boo WordPress. I didn’t even want that upgrade, I just clicked it so it would stop telling me there was a new upgrade.
You know, I realize this is mostly my fault for not making a backup after my old laptop exploded on me. You remember that? Yeah, I was supposed to re-backup everything after that but I never did. Stupid Miss Hedgey, not even doing her job right. You know, this reminds me of when I first started out and made a long list of things I had to fix, just like now. Ah, memories. Memories of how much I suck at computers.
EDIT: Alright, I got it all mostly fixed, just a few things remaining which I hope will be done by tomorrow. I swear the menu font looks different though. Anyone happen to catch what it was before? Oh well, everyone be thankful the Comicpress people aren’t as incompetent as their Word cousins. Thank you kind strangers!
I apologize for the blank backgrounds again, but I was a bit excited to draw this comic. I mentioned my comics list a couple of times, and it started off with eight or so comics. For some reason I keep putting them off and end up doing more recent comic ideas, so it’s a good feeling when I finally get to cross one off. Now if only I could feel the same about my horrible skills at drawing large monstrous things. I’m still EPicked out from the giant robot for crying out loud!
I’ve said before that I like Fruitifying foreign characters, and it’s time I took a break from video game jokes for another medium for overused jokes. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a serious documentary on the Looney Tunes out there somewhere. Also, “Chasing the Carrot” sounds like an odd euphemism for something, but I’m not sure what. It’s probably best I don’t figure that one out.
My only hope is that this doesn’t become one of the reocurring gags I’m best known for. Luckily I wasn’t trapped under any life threatening doors, I was just keeping this one in reserve for the next time I had a busy day, and I think leaving home at five in the morning and coming back with twenty minutes left to midnight counts as a busy day. Don’t worry, you’ll have your Cheetastic comics again soon, a break wont kill you. Well, unless you’re that one guy in the hospital who needs to see a brand new comic every five minutes or he’ll die. Here’s hoping he wasn’t relying on my hitherto perfect schedule. Wow, I can’t believe I used “hitherto” in a sentence. I really do need some sleep. Night y’all!