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Makin' Me Nervous Doodles
It's all fun and games until the creep clown shows up.The Japanese fleet is getting closer and closer to my harbor, too. Should I be concerned?It's past time to be nervous and should seriously be considering an exit strategy.This got used in a recent comic, in fact-- you may recognize it in it "raw form"!Uh-oh. *now* it is time to be nervous.Later!
"Maybe More Lifting...?"
"Do you even lift, bro..?"So this is a bit dated, I admit, because the Iran-Israel exchange happened a few weeks ago. But I am interested less in the actual exchange as it happened, and more interested in the repercussions as time goes on. Yes, this isn't a post getting philosophical about what military life is like, this time I'm jumping into some actual analysis of events. In an Intelligence shop, it is common for the analysts to put together briefings and deliver updates about...
WIP Wednesday! Juni Gives A Briefing
What does she talk about? Above: the raw pencils. Raw, I say; raw!I don't often show this intermediate point between pencils and "clean" inks. But I frequently just have a bunch of messy lines running across each other.Then it becomes almost like a coloring book.That's an idea! Would anyone be interested in a coloring book? I may make one.This time I did some of the background shading details first. In this case, a fade to dark from the center, where the projector is casting ligh...
No Bull Doodles
Don't be unfair!Farmer's Daughter ain't foolin' around, either.The Admiral isn't going to put up with no bull, either.On the other hand, President Dog isn't so uptight and might be an improvement.Later!
"...Like a Bear!"
If you've been on the internet at all the last few weeks, you've probably run across the "Bear in the Woods" meme running around. The premise is that a woman walking alone in the woods would rather encounter a bear than a random man. The implication is, a lot of women see a random man as potentially more problematic than a ginormous bear.To be a bit of a buzzkill about the whole thing, let's remember that most wildlife wants to avoid humans as much as possible. They've pr...
WIP Wednesday! Dropping a Truth Bomb?
Looks like SSG Specter has something very decisive to say about a subject the ladies are talking about. Cleaned up inks! Is he agreeing? Is he instructing? I he mansplaining something? Stay tuned!I don't do a lot of close-ups so this was kind of fun to tackle. Although I did get his eyes too close. Oh, well, more practice. Got that color coming in! Juni looks weird with those white lips. Jumped to the final product (sans dialogue) with the shading, etc. All three of these characters represen...
Me 401k Doodles!
Nothing like a good hoard of treasure stashed away for retirement. But if it is buried on an island, is your money truly working for you?Who cares? It's time to celebrate with some beans.Make sure someone doesn't help themselves to your treasure, though.Or, you could just spend your money on vices now and enjoy the present.Until later!
WIP... Friday? Hey, It Happens!
Sorry I missed WIP Wednesday-- the week snuck up on my faster than I thought, and I even had stuff ready. It's been weird bouncing back and forth between my day job and my military training as we get ready for deployment... Anyhow, let's take a look at... what the heck is happening here..?Ohhhh-kaaayyy. Um, Dance Dance Revolution, maybe?Not sure where we're going with this? Fear not, I wasn't sure myself, and I drew it!Oh, yeah, gotta start that camouflage thing, in patchwork pie...
Scared in the Woods Doodles
Scary things happen in the woods! Be careful!Think Sasquatch is scary? You ain't seen nothin' yet!Call him "Sasquatch" or "Bigfoot", either way... it can be scary.Remember, push comes to shove, you just need to outrun the guy next to you.Until Later!
BOHICA Blues Today: "How My Journey Began"
In 2004, the movie "Mean Girls" came out. And in it is the line, "Get in, loser, we're going shopping!" Since then, the "Get in, loser, we're ______" line has become a meme, with all sorts of options inserted as needed.Recruiters frequently stalk college and high-school campuses looking for likely prospects. Given the cost of higher education these days, campuses are a good place to look. They will entice people with benefits for "free college". The cost o...
WIP Wednesday! Putting Something Together...
So this will be a single-panel comic. I have taken a template for a 3-panel comic and drawn right across the gutter of the top two panel to create one large panel that takes 2/3rds of the page. Usually, for a single-panel comic I will do this, or, combine the top two panels of a 4-panel template. Since these get scanned in as pencils, I then make a layer and do my inks, and eliminate the bottom layer with the pencils, so the drawn-over lines and sketchy pencil marks disappear, leaving me the cle...
Snapping Nerd Doodles
It's all fun and games until the nerd snaps.Sometimes you're just too tired to snap.And sometimes it isn't the nerd who snaps. *Everyone* has their breaking point, you know.And sometimes the snap is lethal.Until later!
BOHICA Blues Today: "The Same, But Different"
When someone joins the Army, they talk to a recruiter and pick a job that they want. The old days, of the Army randomly choosing one person to be a cook and one person to be a rifleman while another becomes a mechanic, hasn't been the case for a long time. You pick a job you want and you go to Basic Training --frequently at one post-- and then on to AIT, or Advanced Individual Training, which many times is at a completely different post. Fort Huachuca is the place for Intelligence and Signal...
WIP Wednesday! "How My Journey Began"
SSG Specter reveals how he got involved in Intelligence. Apparently it is a slightly awkward story. After the pencils come the inks, of course-- all digitally.Then the "paint bucket color" is applied, super easy. I always do the camouflage in sections so the seams are at least somewhat apparent. I don't know why but this little details always sticks with me. Some background, shading and highlights, and voila, it is ready for dialogue! Stay tuned!
Makin' Doodles
I've heard that making them is more fun than having them, so be careful.This won't end well.This will end up even worse....aaaannd this is how things end for you, young trooper.Until later!
BOHICA News!
Time to welcome aboard some new faces! Wayne Gilcoine has moved up from a Free follower to a full-fledged Private! Meanwhile, Fox Whitworth has joined as a Free member! Yes, Patreon allows for Free memberships! You can "try on" a membership and see if you like it! As a result I try to make more of my posts each month available to all members-- frequently Doodles and such, but also WIP Wednesdays and sometimes sneak peeks at future comics or other projects. I have a pretty regular schedul...
WIP Wednesday! "The Same, But Different"
Uh-oh, looks like someone is having a flashback to Basic Training!Ohhh, man, I can feel the heat through the computer screen! Paint Bucket color applied... the easy part!Yup, it is a flashback to the past when that stupid "ACU" ("Advanced Combat Uniform", ha-ha-ha) was all the rage. I don't get to draw this pattern much any more. Oddly enough, as much as I hated that pattern (I swore I'd stay in the Army long enough for a new uniform because I refused to retire in that st...
Contact the Spirits Doodles
You have contacted the spirits. We are either away from the ether, or busy. Please leave a message and we will return your call.Now you're seeing a completely different sort of spirits.Coffee Dog is also seeing the sounds and hearing the colors.This was the original Chameleon design. Nothing to do with spirits, though.Until later!
WIP Wednesday! "How Did We Survive?"
Juni is schooling Emma on the darkness of the PT Belt Era. Digital inks and clean-up! Emma is clearly in disbelief. Initial colors with the "paint bucket" tool, or as I call it, the "splash color phase". Getting the details in there-- highlights, shading, etc. Some last-minute changes to Juni's hair. ....aaannnd background! Final product coming soon. It's not what you expect!
Do What You Love Doodles
And don't let no one tell you not to!Adopt whatever persona you like to cultivate.Um, yeah, you can embrace your Little Sharkmaid, too.Okay, maybe we have to call it at "indulging your inner hay-hook murderer" persona. You understand, right? Right?Doggo has had enough of your shenanigans.Until later!
BOHICA Blues Today: "The Dark Times"
I really did have a young troop ask me "what's with these jokes about PT belts?" and I had to take a moment and realize that... yeah, I haven't seen many lately. I was recently at Ft. Huachuca for a month and noticed surprisingly few PT belts in use --there were some being used, for sure, but fairly sensibly, as these things go. Ft. Huachuca is an A.I.T. (advanced individual training) post, which is one step removed from Basic Training. And not just any AIT post, but one for Inte...
Imma Swipe Right Doodles
Oh dear god why?"Oh, no, I don't have enough to pay rent! What can I do?""We can come up with an... alternative"Everyone else at Monopoly... O oThe strain hurts my brain.Now explain it to the children! Will nobody think of the children?Later!
WIP Wednesday! Upcoming episode: "Dark Times"
The pencil originals for "dark times". Explain your weird NCO humor to the young 'un, please!Cleaned up digital inks.Emma is clearly perplexed by something the older, more experienced ones find amusing. Probably some "back in my day" moment that Emma has no connection to. All will be explained, young one!The partial finish of the camouflage. The military makes no effort to match patterns with seams or patches, so this helps maintain that slight bit of realism and helps define...
Israel/Gaza War Doodles
Doodled during That Time. Nobody wants the Find Out phase of this kind of stuff.Above: "It'll be OK". Maybe one way or another.A "somal rishon" (technically it translates as "first sergeant" but the way they use it it means "staff sergeant") asking "Why?"It's enough to make anyone grumpy.Until later!
WIP Wednesday!
Another one is getting ready for posting! Juni and Emma are sharing thoughts again.Cleaning up the inks...Had to work on the computer monitor a bit. I also liked how Juni and Emma turned out.Added details and highlights to them first before moving on to the other stuff.Finally got Juni's shading in there, and the monitor......and now with more background!Until later!
Accident Avoidance Doodles
Be careful or you'll have an accident, like above.You can always "Circle-X" a major fault "just for now" and make something mission-ready even though it is unsafe. Our maintenance reports allow us to report that a piece of equipment is unsafe to use if we put an "X" on the report next to the discovered fault. But if the commander decides to use the equipment anyway, it can be "circled" and made into a "circle-X", which means "use it anyway regardle...
BOHICA Blues Today: "Straight From the Horse's..."
When I started writing this comic and creating the visual part of it, Putin's "interview" with Tucker Carlson was still relatively recent. That went pretty much like the script from "Airplane": "I need to know everything about this situation from the beginning!" "Well, first the Earth cooled, and then the dinosaurs came..."Vladimir Putin, professional horse's ass; by the time this posts publicly, the Russian elections in March should be a done deal, and I ...
WIP Wednesday: VOX NOCTEM
Remember "Vox Noctem"? It is going to be an anthology of short stories based on a theme, produced by Random Coyote Productions, LLC. I just wanted to show how the project is going so far, featuring one of the stories that has been submitted for eventual publication!This amazing, funny, 5-page story was written by Lora Volkert and illustrated by Mariah Larson. These are just a handful of panels; I would not publish their entire work here. This is to generate interest for the project, whic...
Toxic Environment Doodles
Don't you hate having to work in a toxic environment?It's always the same cast of characters at the bottom of things, too.Even the reactor is critical. Ho Ho Ho!Now you've made Vladimir Putin grumpy. I'm outta here!
WIP Wednesday! Talkin' 'Bout.... Something.
What are Emma and Juni talking about? Something happened in the world and they are contextualizing it. Let's watch it develop.Pencils get turned into digital inks, and we're off to the races!Getting the color in there big-time. And as always, I add the camo in phases so that the patterns don't cross across the seams.Got the highlights and shading and everything! What's missing? Oh yeah-- background.Annnnd... Voila. We're ready for dialogue. But you'll just have to wait, b...
