new poster

I am having a very unproductive Winter this year!  It's been too cold, the kids too grumpy and the house too dirty to get any real work done.  To those of you awaiting any work, all I can say is that I'm getting more motivated  and the increasing temps only help!  This is the latest work for the Divine Miss D, who will use this as her main poster this year.  Spring is almost here, and with it, I just might get something done.
Thanks, d
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 Here is an experiment using some new software called Manga Studio.

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 I know I haven't been on here in a while and I'll just go ahead and plead the 5th!  Too much going on around the house, and a few recent trips outta' town; you look up and it's almost Christmas time.  I have a line on illustrating a children's book  and this is the first concept art for it.  Still not sure about this gig as of yet and hope  this matches what the author is thinking.  I missed the filming of a short film I storyboarded today in Nashville to get this done so, I hope it's for real.  Outdoor soccer is almost over for the year and I'm glad, been freezing my butt off over the last few weeks.  Hope all have a great Thanksgiving!

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 Been offline for awhile, due to mild illness, trying to get back into the swing of things. Got some new software to learn , the new Mangastudio, looks like a lot of fun with all the zipatone options I wish Photoshop had!!!  Hope to publish some of that stuff soon.  Here is a recent poster for my friends, the Bunnies.

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 New poster for my friend Donna Frost here in Nashville for a gig in Austin, Tx.   They want to go another direction, so this is not the one we will be using.

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Zachfest 2010

I did a series of birthday party flyer's for years for some great friends for their son Zach, who has now, much to the displeasure of his mother gone and grown up. I haven't done one of these for years, but seeing as how he's grown up and all, I'd try one more attempt.

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more vampire stuff

What started out as a present for an old friend rapidly turned in a exercise in how to draw captions and boxes in that cruel mistress that is photoshop!  I was working as lazily as possible, scanning very messy blue pencil sketches and then putting in the all the lines, colors and caption boxes.  Does it work? Yes, will I do it all the time? Maybe, I am a lazy bitch after all!  No new summer news, the kids go back to school on the first and it's too damn hot to do anything.  Such is life!

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 My best friend is having a birthday in a few weeks and I did this for him.  The statue in the toon is a real one in the old Monroe Cemetery.  The guy's wife put up the statue after his death with him holding their marriage license carved in stone to shut up the family who said they were never married and she shouldn't inherit.  Only in Louisiana!

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A good old friend of mine has a bar-b-cue business back in Louisiana and I did this for him since I could not make his big party last week. Good luck in LA! I went with the Scoobie Doo style, with talking animals and loud colors, may even be some old 70's guest stars in there soon!

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day 45

Well the boy is off with his Grandparents and the house is clean and quiet! Madeline sleeps most of the time and come to think of it so do the dogs! The highlight of Andrew's summers is his Granddad taking him fishing, the only problem is that he is a little spoiled when it comes to fishing, not liking to touch the bait or unhook his own fish (we won't even get into cleaning his own catch here!!). It may even be too hot for them to get out this trip, but if they do, this is what happens every time!

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poster round 2

they like this one!

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day 44

 Diamond mining in Murfreesboro, ARK is a lot like going to a casino, you put up your money or time and expect a big payout.  At least at the casino, you get a cocktail! At the mine, maybe heat stroke!

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band posters

Sorry for the lapse in posting, busy, busy! Here are two Bunnies posters, one they will use and the other they will not (The Vitruvian Man, back to the drawing board!). It's hot here, so, not much else to do but draw and clean the house!

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where you been?

Sorry for the absence! I've been working on some storyboard/character design for a friends screenplay and all the stuff is copyrighted. I can't share any work here at this time! Please check back as I promise to get back to daily cartooning as soon as possible!!!

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day 43

Well, I fell off the wagon hard this weekend, no cartoons for 3 days!  Family first, lotsa cleaning and entertaining done over the last few days, part of living this life! I will try and catch up, but I think getting in a toon every day may not be practical, but will still be attempted.  Such is life!

This is a large toon about the park on the local river where I take my son fishing! It's an old dam that once had a grinding mill on it. This river, in addition to having a major Civil War battle fought on it, also has the most old mill dams. A very beautiful place usually filled with some of the most butt-ugly people on the planet! I just had to give the lit'redneck Coopertone girl a Pitt-bull instead of a nice little puppy! Really, just had ta'!


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day 42

Man, I screwed this one up bad! Ran out of my regular paper and at the last minute used this paper I found in a stack of old supplies from the 80's. The minute I started to erase, everything smeared and it's way too late to start over tonight, so! I took the Boy fishing today and noticed how much stuff is involved in fishing now! I remembered my grandmother taking me fishing in the summers when I was his age and we did it on the cheap, caught more and had twice the fun!

I got up early to fix the wife's lunch and though I would fix this cartoon also. This one is composed better and has no smear lines!
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day 41

Got too hot today mowing the yard and almost didn't post tonight! It was the Madeline show last night at the graduation! She got a ton of awards and seemed to be up on stage every five minutes! The boy got a little jealous and showed out some! We survived. Different style tonight, loose pen work, mainly due to running out of time, but I will deny that if cornered!

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day 40

Our daughter graduates the sixth grade tonight (and they said she would never go far,,,,well, maybe I said she would never go far!). She is a beautiful and bright girl and will go far in this world if she can successfully walk the minefield that is the teenage years! So far she has shown good taste in friends and activities which we survivors know is half the battle. Last night the Boy got the dogs all stirred up late. I told him not to do it, but, does he listen? No! So, at eleven last night we can still hear the dogs fighting/playing and the Boy screaming "Shut up, you stupid dogs!" I just smiled and rolled over.....such is life!

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day 39

We went last night with no AC, the units were froze up! We go through this about once a year, small leak somewhere in one of the units. Apparently, who ever installed our heat pump was a world class dumb-ass! The guy who works on our units told me that they don't make the coolant we use anymore and it's only getting harder to find and more expensive. The new approved stuff will actually explode if put in contact with the old stuff we got in now, lucky us! Well, it's cool in here now and it'll probably last till next year. Such is life......

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day 38

 Got on the bike today and rode the Greenway in town, got me a new bike computer and I know the distance was 14.45 miles with an avg speed of 9.6 mph!  Not too bad for an old man in hot weather!  As we crossed this footbridge over the Stones River, these rednecks were jumping 30 feet off the top of the bridge into water that was recently 30 feet over flood stage, no telling what new stumps or rocks had been moved into the area?  But what are the eternal last words of a true redneck?  "Hey y'all, watch this!"

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