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1. King Kong ravages the city.
2. [Label reads: 100% polyester]
2. [Label reads: 100% polyester]
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My first comic creation act with my shiny new lightbox. (A lightbox makes it easy to copy a rough drawing to a final fair copy, or, in this case, to replicate shapes and objects to help keep them consistent from frame to frame.)
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Quality control robot examines a component on the production line, then after some internal struggle obliterates it.
I had some fun looking at some original Sidney Paget art to base these characters on. Apparently Sidney got the job by mistake — the publishers of the Strand Magazine thought they were hiring his younger brother, Walter.
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Observe, my dear Watson - the Baskerville hound may have given us the slip this time. But now we have a lead.
Happy Seasonal Greetings to all my readers.
And apologies to fans of Sir Arthur, again.
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Dr Watson [holding the Floral Cyclopedia]: Amazing, Holmes! How could you know that the message would be concealed in the pages on garlic and onions?
Sherlock Holmes: Because, my Dear Watson, it is the allium entry.
Sherlock Holmes: Because, my Dear Watson, it is the allium entry.
Just a doodle from this evening. After scanning I added the flipped inverse image just because.
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A large, green hippopotamus, facing his anti-matter counterpart.
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Fishing by a river bank. The sign says "No Fishing," but someone is fishing!
There are times when semi-aquatic is only half the story. At the weekend we visited the Grant Museum of Zoology in London, part of University College London. The museum was used as a reference for students, and pulls no punches. They have a lot of pretty gruesome stuff in there, including a whole jarful of pickled moles, as well as the more uplifting sight of dodo bones and a near-complete quagga skeleton (brought up to totality by 3D scanning and printing reflected parts from one side to use on the other.) A combination of unsettling and fascinating. Anyway, a puffer fish in a cabinet caught my attention, and by the time I got home it had trans-hippogrified out of my sketch-book.
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Hippopuffermus. [A puffer fish with the features of a hippo]
And a hippo swimming.
And a hippo swimming.
I’ve been wanting to do this one for a while. We recently went to a workshop on drawing a manga version of Romeo and Juliet, so now seems about the right time.
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1. Blue plate says: Romeo Montague -- tragic hero -- lived in this cottage.
2. A Montague: "I thank thee good Mercutio, 'tis done well."
3. A Capulet: "How thou dost abuse thy neighbour! Should not our dwelling also be graced?"
4. Mercutio: [waving a blue sign: Juliet Capulet, tragic heroine, lived here] "Content thyself mistress, I am apt to furnish ... a plaque on both your houses."
2. A Montague: "I thank thee good Mercutio, 'tis done well."
3. A Capulet: "How thou dost abuse thy neighbour! Should not our dwelling also be graced?"
4. Mercutio: [waving a blue sign: Juliet Capulet, tragic heroine, lived here] "Content thyself mistress, I am apt to furnish ... a plaque on both your houses."
Some creatures spotted at Howlett’s Zoo (in Kent, UK) weather you believe me or not.
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Snow leopard
Clouded leopard
Sunny intervals leopard
Clouded leopard
Sunny intervals leopard
One for the word-play category…
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Pianist accompanies dancing class of dancers, all dressed in leotards. One dancer is wearing a leopard onesie suit. Thinks: "I wish I'd read the clothing instructions more carefully."