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Friday, March 30

The bus test

For all those that may not know me, including that faithful fan in Brisbane, I take the bus to work. It suits me fairly well, and it gives me time to work on my hobby of building the Statue of Liberty out of gum. Well, the other day I ran out of Juicy Fruit, and decided to try something different. I wondered how well I could draw a cowboy in my sketch book while riding the bus. Here are the results...
Well, the bus driver drove really careful that day. And he was actually dodging the pot holes. So I tried again, on a different route, different driver.

This time, it left me with impressive results. Notice the difference between the freeway, and side streets.
Then a little penguin, realizing the personal ramifications, started to loose it.
I didn't mean to upset him! It was just a little experiment! Oh, I have guilt now...

Thursday, March 29

Silly Putty Close-Up Thursday #10

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

Unless we have the Express Super-Deluxe Pass. Then we can go anywhere we want to.
Cluster T. Uva

Wednesday, March 28

Snowballing 101

The best targets in a snowball fight are the ones that can't retaliate due to lack of mobility. Although, tests have proven that they are more susceptible to multiple attacks, since their padding content exceeds that of the instigators.

Tomorrow's reading: Properly packed slush balls.

Friday, March 23

Look! He's bilingual!

And now, for your enjoyment, I present to you, an Einstein impostor carrying too much, while a short, hairy, nearsighted creature has an upside-down idea.

Interpretations welcome. My own psychiatrist couldn't figure it out, that's for sure.

Thursday, March 22

Silly Putty Close-Up Thursday #9

Is anybody feeling like these Silly Putty posts are giving you a reason to live? Yeah, me too.

Wednesday, March 21

There goes that corpse again.

Time for another look at an Exquisite Corpse. Here's the eighth slice I was sent.

As usually, I like to get the overall background color down first. Something that matches the majority of the slice I receive.

Then I decided to do something I normally don't do...I scribbled "Doofus!" all across my forehead and wore a pink bunny costume to the store.

Then, realizing the extreme embarrassment being out in public like this, I ran until I found a giant vat of Jell-o and jumped into it head first.

Unfortunately, my luck didn't change, for in the vat of Jell-o were deadly peanut-piranhas! I scrambled to get out as they begin tearing through the pink fur. Needless to say, I escaped, but the bunny outfit was DOA.

The ER team desperately tried to revive it, but it was no use. It had passed on to pinker pastures. I held a wake for the garment, and laid it to rest with other costumes long gone.

I decided right then and there that peanut-piranhas that lived in Jell-o needed to be exterminated by whatever painful means are necessary. So I bought some napalm, and fried the little pests!

Oh, and here's the end result.

A thing o beauty.

Tuesday, March 20

No relation to lemurs

We haven't seen much of those bean-worm things. Let's see what they are up to.


Meanwhile, at the cliff...


Oh, my.

Saturday, March 17

Row, row, row

I'm confident that these guys are going to find exactly what they are looking for. Aaaaaannnnnnddddd, I'm just not sure what that is. (Let's hope that wasn't the navigator they just left behind.)

Friday, March 16

I'm trying to get four now!

The other day, as I was sitting on my couch, throwing pennies in a milk jug, I noticed some light switches on the wall that I've never seen before. I decided to find out what they did, even though I was on a hot streak with the penny/milk jug thing. (I had made 2 in a row!)

After I flip the first one up, a beautiful woman fell through my ceiling, and gave me three pieces of "magic" paper (so she says), transformed into a particle of light, and floated away. The papers were blank, except for three words on the bottom of the first one, which read "Write it down."

I have not tried to flip on the other two.

However, I did get three pennies in the milk jug the very next hour!! Cool, huh?!

Wednesday, March 14

Spring is in the (h)air

He'll never use that brand again. Unless he has another coupon.

This was actually an idea I had for Illustrations Friday's "sprout," but I never got around to do it. I seem to have a few sketches for IF that never make it out of my sketch book. Hmmmm...

Tuesday, March 13

Saw, belch, saw, belch

With the recent increase of burping lumberjacks named "Pierre," scientist have concluded that positive self esteem training will help this problem. However, the scientist have a hard time competing vocally with the eructation, since most of their words are drowned out by the volume.

This announcement has been brought to you by "The Great Dino-Box of 1893 Comedy Hour."

Friday, March 9

Turbo Hippo's day to shine!

Remember a while ago I mentioned something about an action hero hippo? Well, look here if you forgot. For those of you who have my entire blog memorized (which I highly recommend), let us continue.

Here is one of many sketches of Mr. Turbo Hippo...
Wow. Doesn't he look ready to take on the forces of evil with his special hippo powers?

Well, one day I found some nifty sprite websites. No, not Sprite's website, but sprite websites. And I thought, "Whoa! Turbo Hippo would be an awesome video game character!" And I thought sprites and other forms of pixel art are just cool. So I decided to transfer Turbo Hippo into the pixel realm. I used the hippo character from the second post, minus the top hat and cane, for the initial form and design.
Look at that helmet, and cool suit, and rockets... Now, before you bring up the fact that I know nothing about creating a game, let alone what to do with these sprites, let me just say I was having a jolly ole time. My pixel apps of choice are (of course) Photoshop and a cool free Mac app called Pixen. I even made a little animated gif of him running!

So, when will we see Turbo Hippo fighting the forces of evil? As soon as I master that programming-code-stuff that makes video games work and move and stuff. So, maybe next week.

Wednesday, March 7

With chocolate chips.

Boy does this bring back memories. I was about to get a cookie while my brother continued sharing his feelings for poultry, when suddenly the cookie jar turned into a Flozzahoozit from the planet Noodoopux 5. He made friendly gestures with his hands to me, while trying to sharing the secrets of the universe telepathically.

Man, I just wanted a cookie.

Monday, March 5

Sing bigger!

More of these... things. Just so you know, it's even funnier if you read this out loud... next to a perfect stranger... on the bus.

Friday, March 2

Does it take AA?

Can anyone tell me what exactly he was looking for?

At least we all know that next to the what-ever-it's-called is an accordion barrel fan. With a loop. Thank goodness for life's recognizable consistencies.

Thursday, March 1

Silly Putty Close-Up Thursday #6

Let's explore the realm of orange Silly Putty for the next few weeks, shall we.