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Cowgirl Up Doodles
My OIC (Officer-In-Charge, basically my boss) in Kosovo was a cowgirl. She and her husband owned a ranch and we even bought a side of beef from them (longhorn, very lean and delicious). She didn't look like this though. After a long day of ranching, you need to have a plan for getting the baby to sleep. She'll get that baby from you one way or another, city boah! My boss also did not look anything like this, either. Maybe go into another lucrative field? Try out funeral school instead!...
WIP/Sneak Peek Friday!
Today, an Empires project!I have been making very, very slow (but steady) progress on my Empires project, my military science-fiction action-adventure series. It is a reboot of a very, very old project I experimented with in the 1990's. Even though it has been a long time since I originally worked on it, it has actually always been my #1 project that I really wanted to make my signature piece.One of the things I have been doing is a re-design of one of my spaceships, the Avenger-class gunshi...
BOHICA News!
An opportunity I take every so often to thank my wonderful supporters. You are modern day "Patrons of the Arts" and I appreciate you. I'm going to try to introduce a few more new things over the course of the year (such that remains). I started doing the Star Wars Fanart stuff a few months ago and I enjoy it, so I am hoping to do more things like that, but not just with Star Wars. John Bandow already recommended throwing in more Empires-related materiel, which I have been slowly work...
Grumpy Sar'ent-Major Doodles
Our brigade Sergeant-Major at Camp Bondsteel was grumpy and looked like a thumb. He loosened up over time and became okay, though. Not everyone in our Brigade command was that chill, though. Sometimes it set everyone on edge, and there was stress. There was always that feeling that, no matter what you were doing, there was something wrong. Until next week!
WIP Wednesday (Star Wars Fanart)
I am way, waaayyy ahead of schedule on BOHICA Blues (how often does that happen?) and I have already posted everything through the end of August. I could keep making comics but I would end up so far ahead of schedule here that the lag time before member sneak peeks and posted publication would be ridiculously ahead of schedule... or I could post something else entirely!So I am sharing some more Star Wars fan art of the Jedi characters in my story over at Spacebattles.com So the very top image wa...
Doodlin' Monday!
Before entering a secret discussion area called a "SCIF" (pronounced as "skif"), people had to go through an access control point and drop off their phones. Most people do not bother to silence their phones, so at any given moment the poor sap that got assigned to access control point security duty was living through a non stop concert of alarms, message pings, and other tones. It made as much sense as this guy and his herp de floop der floodin. Meanwhile, President Vucic was wa...
WIP Wednesday! (Big One)
This one was slightly ambitious; I had to do it in two different phases. Above is the original pencil sketch I did for the foreground. The ink-and-pencil overlay part... ..and the cleaned-up version. At this point, I had to start working on the background portion. Some initial line work on the UH-60M based off of a photo. Now, here it is cleaned up, colored, and shaded/highlighted, and ready to incorporate. Now they are incorporated together, with a bit of moving around using the lasso tool to...
Grumpy Doodles
Our Sergeant-Major in Kosovo looked like a grumpy thumb. I wonder what his parents were like?Oh, that explains a lot. I can see this, too. The family dog tried to remain aloof. Or is it... "Awoof"?Until later!
WIP Wednesday!
An initial image of pencil sketch on a full sheet, normally used for a 4-panel comic. This time I just use the top half. If making a 2-panel comic I typically just use the top half of a 4-panel page. The pencil-ink hybrid, that "intermediate" phase that frequently incorporates a lot of change. Not so much this time, though, although I did make a nice background mess for me to clean up. With the pencil backgrounds eliminated, it is off to the clean-up phase. Background fence erased as n...
The Dreaded Banjo Drone Doodles!
No! Not the banjo drone! Bad things happen when the banjo plays!Especially when you hear a banjo playing in the deep, dark woods. Who knows what could go awry?Even the donkey is alarmed at that.Yup, I'd say it is time to panic. Good luck!
BOHICA Blues Today: KFOR Adventures "The Reluctant Director"
If you need to discuss secret stuff, you go to an area called a "SCIF" (pronounced "skif"). SCIF stands for Secret Compartmentalized Information Facility, and it is an area that is set aside specifically for this purpose.The existence of SCIFs is not secret; I am not giving anything away here. They are discussed in spy movies and TV dramas, you can look them up on Wikipedia. The fact that SCIFs exist can be talked about, it's just that what you say in the SCIF, stays in the S...
WIP Wednesday!
So, I have a one-panel comic, and I have to cut away part of it because it gives away too much information about the comic. But here we are! A bit late because I have been super busy, and also I have not yet returned to my regular day job yet and frankly I have lost track of what day it is. So a lot of overlapping lines and artwork, giving me a lot to clean up this time. You can see how the pencils and inking are kinda just all over the place. Eliminating the pencils reveals what I have ahead o...
That's Not Good, Bert! Doodles
Poor Bert. He should have that checked.Even people in outer SPAAAAAAACCCEE are looking at you weird. Of course, people in space know that when you stare at the lizard critter, the lizard critter stares back at you. Yeah, I've had enough, too. Until later!
WIP Wednesday!
Since I still have some KFOR humor stocked up, I am going to continue coasting on that. In this one, I am developing a scene that took place at a Mexican restaurant in Prishtina called "Commandante Marcos", which became a favorite of many of us over there. As usual, I enjoy doing comics set in very different, more dynamic settings since it gives me an opportunity to draw things a little different from the norm. In this case, having my crew gathered around a restaurant table was very outs...
Banjo Woman Doodles
She's playing... for you. It starts outby sounding like "fun"...But it ends up.. awkward.But what a cute little baby!
WIP Wednesday!
Today I can share whole-page WIPs because there's nothing visual that gives away the punchline. Here, Juni and Emma emerge from the gym at Camp Bondsteel gym. The gym really was pretty well fitted-out with a lot of stuff, and was always crowded. Here it is showed with the underlying pencil work still intact. I kind alike these WIP phases; I feel like they show how different the initial sketch was from what is being made. This is also the first comic I made back in the USA, using entirely my...
I Think This is My Dog Doodles
I have a little 45-pound dog, but by the amount of poops in the backyard, I think I actually have an Alaskan sled dog team stowed away on my property somewhere. Yeah, you know, sled dogs! It might be worth it to live in Alaska just so I can have a sled dog team. Yeah, be, like... a peg pirate. Or something. Yarr, and stuff. I guess it is better than just letting yourself go... Until later!
Fanart Friday
A quick wrap-up to the week (a bit late I admit) but another Star Wars fanart entry for a Jedi in the collaborative story I am part of. This Jedi is a Nelvaanian, a race of blue-furred canine-type aliens introduced over halfway through the animated "Clone Wars" arc. In this image, the Jedi is named "Avar", and he was in his late teens when he was taken by slavers on Orvax. Nelvaan was being incorporated into the Sovereign Alliance of Systems and Avar had been earning pocket chang...
Deployment Harem
Okay, just thought I'd throw out something different... a meme! I sometimes make memes. Not altogether good ones, perhaps, but there they are. I recently made a joke to one of my buddies as we were stuck at Ft. Hood for redeployment and demobilization that "clean socks are just an infantry man's harem", so I decided to put it to (digital) paper. Until next time!
Businesslike Doodles.
Get back to business. Guess what class we had when this doodle was done!?Probably some Sergeant Major came up with the edict. This is Beetle Bailey as a crusty 20-year+ Sergeant Major, my version of a comic done by Fort Familyroom over at Miltoons. "Two MUTA-6's can eliminate a MUTA-4"A "MUTA" is a Military Unit Training Assembly. It is a 4-hour block of time for training and pay purposes; this is how National Guard and Reserve soldiers divide up their weekends. We technicall...
WIP Wednesday!
Another in the "phone picture/scanned originals" series! This time, I have to cut it down to one single panel, because all the other panels would give away too much. This was also the darkest part of the photographed original pencil sketch, so it has some of the most dramatic change in its visual representation. The setting is obviously in the chow serving line, since chow is an important daily touchstone for everyone serving. Here it is all cleaned up , almost ready for corrections and...
Earthman! It's Gettin' Busy Time Doodles!
Um, gosh, I'm flattered, but...Next thing you know it's a shotgun marriage!No one escapes their fate!At least they have cute little alien doggies!
WIP Wednesday!
I did not have access to a scanner; I had to find another means to get a drawn image into my computer. So what did I do? I took a picture with my phone and then uploaded it to my computer! And frankly, it looked awful, but I made do because I had no other choice.It worked, well enough at least. I started applying the digital ink as soon as possible while I still l had the idea visualized in my mind. Once I got it cleaned up, though, it was indistinguishable from a "properly" done piece...
Attack of the Cow Pirate Doodles-- MOOYaarr!
I just don't know where some of this crap comes from. I really don't. Even the squirrel thinks that's, like, way out there, man. You could even say it's...nuts!Probably proves I'll do anything to mine "Likes"I'm just evil that way. Until later!
Final Scene: Star Wars Jedi Characters
So the "Vian and Jerec" picture is finally done. Above: the final version of Vian with shading and highlights. And the final version of Jerec. I put them together on a simple foreground "stand" so I could put a background behind them. The background I used was a generic wallpaper made some someone else; I found it online. I needed something quick and I was more concerned with the characters than the background. So, to be honest if I were showing this in any normal capacity, I&#...
WIP Wednesday! More Star Wars Fanart
In the Star Wars collaborative story I am participating in over at Spacebattles, I have a character named Jerec Syfardos, who is the son of a Jedi Ace Pilot named Irena Syfardos. Jerec has a girlfriend named Vian Pathwalker, which is actually another writer's character. I usually don't like to draw other peoples' characters because I feel self-conscious about getting them to "look right", but in this case the writer has already hired another artist to create a character refer...
Burger Czar Doodles!
If America has Burger King, does Russia have Burger Czar?There's at least one volunteer willing to do a taste test of Burger Czar.Die for your Czar!And when in Russia, watch out for bears. Until later!
WIP Wednesday!
Something going on here... let's see what's up! Here is the the mix of underlying pencils and overlying inks, before things get cleaned up. I already had to massively reposition Juni's nose because I drew it too high up on her face. Now things are much cleaner and I have the opportunity to star closing leftover "tails and gaps" among lines. Now things are tightened up a lot, and detail is added and the beginnings of color are tossed in. I don't normally draw from this a...
Wait... Where Did You Get That Doodles?
Umm, Kermit, is there something you ought to be telling us...?I have a feeling there's going to be a story behind this.Bork, bork, indeed. Bork ribs?I think the story behind it is a little... frightening. Take care!
WIP: More "Star Wars" Fanart: the Naboo N3A1 "Super Peregrine"
In the story that I am participating in over at Spacebattles.com, it is some 40+ years after the Battle of Yavin, which means that it is maybe 60 or so years after the initial Blockade of Naboo that kicked off the adventures. The government I write is based in Naboo, where the elected constitutional monarch is the sovereign of a large Republic faction spanning several sectors. They have their own fighter, the iconic Naboo N-series, still in its J-Type Nubian configuration. I like to imagine tha...
