Just Some Stuff

Been scribblin' away on my brand-spanking-new Bamboo tablet, here are a few of the results:

The meticulously colored Wolverine I gave a hint at earlier. I'm trying to figure out what to do with the background.

And some really rough digital sketches for a Superman concept I've been kicking around. Note: the costume is based on the principles of CMYK. Since print is such an integral part of Superman, and because his colors are already primaries, I thought this was the best choice.

Wolverine, colored

Just doing some toolin' around on my new Wacom Bamboo tablet, and I thought I'd post it here. This is a little linework and coloring on top of one of the Wolverine sketches I uploaded last time. This makes lying on my mom's couch after having four wisdom teeth pulled out of my head almost worth it!

Done in Photoshop CS2.

X-Men

Just keeping in line with one of my few New Years Resolutions to upload just about everything I sketch or draw in my free time to the blog, whether or not I think it's deserving. So here are a few sketches I did for a re-design idea I had for the X-Men a few weeks ago. I based the X-Outfits off of British SAS uniforms to give them a very militaristic look (except Wolverine, who would of course have no need of a uniform).

Cyclops

Wolverine:

Jean Grey:

More Wolverine:

And More Wolverine:

Villains

It occurred to me that this piece is maybe the single piece of art I'm most proud of ever, so to keep it off the blog seemed pointless. From now on, any art I do I feel happy with will be uploaded to the blog (depending on my proximity to a scanner at the time of completion).



For those of you who haven't already had their ears talked off about this piece, the characters are Nightshift and Triage, two Batman and Robin analogs from the independent comic book "Villains" Christopher McLucas and myself are currently working on. It's very similar to this image: http://www.gaijinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/1236744341867. because I wanted to give a little nod to the inspiration for these two characters. So, thanks to Frank Quitely (the original artist).

Anyway, this represents the highest level of hand-drawn and digital art convergence I've attained - it is literally the best I can do. Or at least, the best I could do when I made it. Every day, and in every way, I'm hopefully getting better and better. By the time Villains is a solid product, who knows what it will look like. I'll be excited to see.

Superheroes

It's taken me a long time to finally post this because my Internet always ran too slow to upload images and I was impatient. But behold... with the magic of Google Chrome...!



I got paid to draw this, and that's awesome.

And for the record, that's R. Crumb sticking out of Batman's neck.

Doing things I'm actually proud of

I busted a week-long nut in the DN Sports section a few weeks before the end of the year. Here's the raddest of the rad. I've never been more excited about a piece of art in ever. I mean that.

Thanks to Jon Crowl for conceptualizing it, Katie Briggs for putting it on the page, and Bea Huff for taking some of the credit but none of the money.

Andrew Lacy --- Maverick

I felt like this one deserved its own post. Thanks to Noah Ballard and Andrew Lamberson.

March

Spring is in the air at Bob's Cartoon Blog!
March saw the return of a fan-favorite character, the Recession Fish. Check out this cartoon pair - the first ran on Friday, the second on the following Monday, after I'd had a weekend to think about how awesome a Recession Fish encore would be.


Next up is another installment in that famous "CEOs are bad" series, about the GM/Chrysler guy that Obama forced out.

This one is in response to a story that ran in the Lincoln Journal-Star about a man who but his girlfriend's cat in a bong to chill it out. It speaks for itself.

After Spring Break, with a literal vacuum of ideas inside my head, I realized that was exactly what my cartoon needed to be about - my own desperation to be finished with the year.

This cartoon actually ran on March 1, and is in regards to my favorite new political term of the year.

Dear Barack Obama,
Nice job appearing on Jay Leno and saying the stupidest thing you've ever said publicly. Way to go.
Signed,
Professor X

I managed with this cartoon to lay a simple smackdown on National Fucktard Bill O'Reilly while at the same time exerting minimal effort. Yeah, those are all the same barrel. Have you met my friend Ctrl+v?

And this last cartoon is probably the one I'm most proud of out of the entire semester. You might think my point is that the war in Afghanistan is extremely comparable to Vietnam, but that's not really it. What it comes down to in this cartoon is just a reminder that war under any circumstances is never by any means a good thing. I think we forget that sometimes.

February

February cartoons comin' atcha!
This first cartoon is in regards to a bill proposed in the Nebraska legislature to push the last call hour back to 2:00 a.m.

And this second one is in regards to Rush Limbaugh being, well, a douche. I paraphrased his speech bubble, but it wasn't much of a stretch.

And this one is in regards to Obama's plans for Afghanistan. You'll see me revise my opinion on this issue a few months down the line.

Okay, this one is in regards to that New York Post cartoon where they have two cops that shot a chimp and one's saying something along the lines of "Now we need to find someone new to write the stimulus bill." Crappy cartoon, admittedly, but I think the reaction to it was maybe a bit over the top. Thus, a cartoon is born.

And then finally, we have my two elephant cartoons from the month of February. Guess which one I put more work into.


Coming soon: March!!

January

I'll be updating my backlog of cartoons by the month. I stopped midway through January, so that's where we'll start.
This first one ran two days after Obama was elected and represented my mindset on that historic day. Notice the Anderson Cooper pit stains.

And this next one is a generic "CEOs are bad" toon, which you can expect to see more of.


Stay tuned, true believers!