Off-Orbit Art and the Fun of Getting to Draw Aliens, Invisibility and Skull Buckets

I have just a few more drawings to share with you for this week. The first, above, is the one I was still messing around with last post-- the scene with the Underworld snitch Skane in Vos Laegos. I discovered white colored pencil over marker is a great way to show high-tech alien camouflage... while simultaneously not showing it. 

The next one I thought would be fun to work on was Rollie and Meena in the bar on Gwash. This was once I got the general idea roughed out....

And this one, is the finished piece. Apologies, the straight lines look a little bendy due to the paper...

One of my favorite parts was getting to draw a bucket made of an animal skull. The other was giving Rollie sunburn. Poor guy! Altair-5 is not made for the average Hyphiz Deltan.

So that's it from me for now. I hope you all have yourselves an out-of-this-world week.

--Jenn

Celebrating Doodle Week: Doodle Evil

In honor of Claire's DoodleWeek, I thought I would ask my comic strip sheep, Shearadon and Woolworth, to make another guest appearance.

Of course I KNEW I'd be paying for it. Once Woolworth finally let Shearadon out of the Hannibal Lecter mask, Shearadon begged me to mention to you that he is still working on his blog-- Wild-n-Woolly-- really slaving away to reach the Online Sheep Community...

(I personally feel at four posts in four months, he and I differ about the definition of "slaving.")

...Anyway, he asked that I draw your attention in particular to his latest post, a sheep-inspired song parody of a tune from one of his favorite Pink Floyd albums, and the popular tune "Us and Them."

So with this link, I give you The Dark Side of the Loom, and the featured song, "Ewes and Rams."

Please forgive me.

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Sheardon and Woolworth Celebrate Doodle Week

Welcome to "Animal Doodle Day" here at Of Cabbages and Kings, as "Doodle Week" sweeps the blogosphere!..

Okay, well, maybe not the WHOLE blogosphere. More like a side road... Maybe a dingy alley. (And boy, can that alley USE some sweeping, too-- just LOOK at those cigarette butts and wads of used chewing gum!)

Er-- but still-- nifty bloggers all! Go check 'em out.:)

Anyway, my friendly neighborhood comic strip sheep-- Shearadon and Woolworth-- have volunteered to join us today for a very special guest appearance. Shearadon NEVER misses an opportunity for the spotlight. My gawd, you should just HEAR him bleating out Karaoke down at The Meadow! He earns points for pluck and enthusiasm, bless his woolly noggin, but his rendition of Cake's "Sheep Go to Heaven, Goats Go to Hell" is enough to make your ears bleed.

Anyway, when last we left our fleecy heroes, Shearadon (the one in the loud Aloha shirt) had announced to brother sheep Woolworth (with the tie and John Lennon glasses) that he had started a blog, and he APPEARED to have some very interesting motivators for doing so. (You can click here to view that strip.)...

And now-- on, with part two!




Oh, before I go, Shearadon has been just BEGGING me to give him a link to his blog. To be honest, I'm fairly picky about who I link to, and I admit, I have some definite reservations about this. Also, I told him, I don't think my current readership really hits the Sheep-American demographic. But as a professional courtesy to him and also because he threatened to quit my comic strip, you can check out his blog by clicking here.

Don't say I didn't warn you! (There, Shearadon-- there you go. Now get off my back about it.)

Special thanks to Claire of A Little Piece of Me for getting us all doodling again.


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Shearadon's been trying to hack into Humor-blogs. He really wants into their top 50.

Meet Shearadon and Woolworth

I'd mentioned in a meme earlier this week that many moons ago, in college, I drew a regular comic strip for the school paper starring anthropomorphic sheep who wore basketball sneakers. And a couple of you were sort of curious what that involved. (Understandable because, you know, livestock doesn't usually accessorize.) Well, since Claire of A Little Piece of Me is having a Doodle Week challenge May 8-14, I figured I'd be prepared. I'd get the flock out for Friday, and see if I still knew how to draw 'em.

This would, however, be Shearadon and Woolworth's first debut in color (it looks like I hired an eager kindergartener to color it in, doesn't it?). "Shearadon," by the way, is the one with the Aloha shirt and plaid pants, while "Woolworth" wears the tie and John Lennon glasses. Click the panels for embiggification.





Hope you guys got a chuckle, at least. In the college storyline, Woolworth went off to the university to see life beyond The Meadow and became immursed in literature, existentialism, Marxist theory and penning bad sheep poetry-- while Sheardon didn't so much go to classes, but sure had a great time when he joined one of the frats.

A sheep with a lampshade on his head... Now that's quality humor. :)

Take care, everybody. Have a great weekend and I think I can speak for Shearadon when I shout, "TGIF!"

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Shearadon over-submitted his blog trying to get into the Humor-blogs directory. It was a sheep trick.