Daughter, Father, Mother. These characters were originally designed for a comic strip that went nowhere after the writer left the Labor of Love Studio. I can write humorous material but I’m not much of joke writer. There’s a definite talent and skill to writing the short, in and out punch of a daily comic strip and I don’t have it.
This family eventually got repurposed for the first version of Miracle Max but that’s another story.
A young troll.
Fortunately not the kind that eats human beings.
Lucky you.
There are a number of cartoonists who just use dots for their character’s eyes. There’s a talent to getting a character’s face to look expressive with fewer lines. Whenever I use just dots I think the results look just a bit creepy.
Not that I have any problem with that.
This image was done for a sympathy card for friends who had a close family member die.
The mangy looking cartoon cat is based on Chainsaw, an old tom who adopted me back in 1993 in Santa Rosa and moved with us when we relocated to Seattle. He was a great cat.
The creature with the tusks in the center is our old friend Boralis the demon.
Most of the characters above and below him were originally created for a comic strip I’d discussed doing with former member of Labor of Love in 1996 or 1997. One of these days I’ll get around to posting the art for those strips. I’ll need to find it first of course.
I got caught up in wrestling with the new version of Photoshop and forgot to post yesterday. So, through the miracle of redating, here’s yesterday’s post today.
The fellow with the horns is an old style burrabb, only two nostrils and two “ears” on the head instead of the current version that has multiple nostrils and “ears” at the base of the skull.
The elephant is one of many species of animals that humanity has re-engineered.
Sunny day before a three day weekend. I’ll be elbow deep in corpses myself. I’m the illustrator for Sixtystone Press’s handbook on ghouls by Daniel Harms. Which has nothing to do with this image but there you go.
The inability to form more than a sentence per post continues.
Wednesday?
Yup.
Carry on.
