Some more work, some more panels. 25% of full-size. 1/2 of the panels.
3 more photos and I'll need a pro flickr account... xmas present, anyone?
without.tweets
Blog Roll Egg & Cheese
Science Preview 2
currently untitled science comic preview.
this is the final linework for a big (10x15) 1-page black and white comic i've been drawing. i had done a sketch awhile back of a person talking but the word balloon was cut off by the bounding box of the comic panel. i thought it would be a funny way to do a silent comic. i have a whole script of dialog for this one, but i left it out so it would be a little more open ended. recently i've been thinking that i don't want it to be too open ended, so I think it'll get a title that is revealing.
this file is huge, but this is just a screenshot. full-sized and finished coming soon.
this file is huge, but this is just a screenshot. full-sized and finished coming soon.
Without About
Been thinking about minor changes to my site, withoutbones. Last night, I thought up this for the "About" section.
Which made me think a lot about family trees.
Which made me think a lot about family trees.
Tao te Ching, chapter 47
Without stirring abroad
One can know the whole world;
Without looking out of the window
One can see the way of Heaven.
The further one goes
The less one knows.
Therefore the sage knows without having to stir,
Identifies without having to see,
Accomplishes without having to act.
From the D.C. Lau translation
Without opening your door,
you can open your heart to the world.
Without looking out your window,
you can see the essence of the Tao.
The more you know,
the less you understand.
The Master arrives without leaving,
sees the light without looking,
achieves without doing a thing.
From the S. Mitchell translation.
I like the first one better.
Lorna visits
Lorna came to town this week. We ate a lot of food and walked all around Brooklyn. One night, we ate hand pulled noodles in soup and a pile of dumplings. Then we walked to Brooklyn Heights, and looked out at the city.
mach workup
working file, with some discarded marks and symbols and things. skulls are pretty common on these patches, but i couldn't make one that i liked so i stopped thinking about them. oh well.
mach-ers marks comp
this is an entry for the shirt.woot "flight" competition.
i like drawing little badges and insignia and such, so i made a couple for fake flight jackets. the bat one on the left is for a fighter jet squad called "the combats". other names, written on the paper next to me include "high five", "high plane drifter", "red six", and "flipped birds" which would be a blue-angels type group that flew upside down only.
vote on it here:
http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=36839
still life w/ cheese
saw this today, and forgot that i had seen it before. loved it then, love it now.
If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
No curtains at my place anymore, so woke up at like 8:30. Making up flight jacket patches and listening to David Dondero. The sun shining in my window makes it hard to see the monitor. That's trouble.
pfs_gnome powered armor
in the fantasy worlds that i am pulling from for inspiration, gnomes are very clockwork/technology based. in PFS, i want to have hints of this technology, but not to the point where they have mastered it. I think that it should either be very very new, or so ancient that most of it is lost/broken/forgotten.
the pieces of remaining power armor are given to those in positions of defense. with the powered helms, the gnomes are free to communicate to each other. like walkie talkies. the lenses in these helms may also be of an advanced nature, but I haven't decided yet.
this guy is a gate keeper type guy.
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i couldn't do an inked thing every day of october due to real life, so i stopped. but i like the format, and will keep exploring the PFS world in this way for now.
pfs_elf mage
this is an elvish mage/wizard/caster of some sort. he is standing in the rubble/wreckage of an elvish building.
gnomes live underground, and in the past young elves would stumble upon entryways to the gnomish dwellings. the young adventuring elves would think these were dungeons and would enter them with hopes of treasure. the elves ended up killing many unsuspecting gnomes this way and the gnomes have never gotten over it.
gnomish strike teams sack elf homes/towns/caravans/anything to the point where it looks like obsession and fun.
Tumblr
The other day I remembered that I had set up a tumblr awhile back. It was collecting the RSS feeds of my blog, twitter, and flickr. I deleted it last night, then regretted that, and set it back up. As I remember other things I've set up around the internet (like an internet Walter Bishop: Where did I store those files...), I'll make the feeds pull in to it as well. Think of it as a 1-stop what-am-i-doing kind of thing. If you are in to that.
withoutbones tumblr
I also set up a "swipe file" tumblr, where I'll be collecting images from around the internet/my hard drive. These are images where I like the shapes, symbols, compositions...anything. Inspiration stuff. I've got at least 30 gigs of this HD full of unknown things, and I don't even want to think about what's on my back-up HD. I am a pack rat in general, but when it's a digital file and I don't have to see it unless I go looking for it... well, in those cases I horde things faster and more often.
withoutbones swipe file
withoutbones tumblr
I also set up a "swipe file" tumblr, where I'll be collecting images from around the internet/my hard drive. These are images where I like the shapes, symbols, compositions...anything. Inspiration stuff. I've got at least 30 gigs of this HD full of unknown things, and I don't even want to think about what's on my back-up HD. I am a pack rat in general, but when it's a digital file and I don't have to see it unless I go looking for it... well, in those cases I horde things faster and more often.
withoutbones swipe file
The Marker Mystery
I was watching the most recent episode of Californication this morning (S03E05: Slow Happy Boys), in which Hank Moody's pal comes to visit from New Jersey. I just got done catching up on Fringe, and it is the same guy that works at the bowling alley in Fringe. Anyways, that doesn't matter. Near the end of the episode, Hank takes his friend to the airport. While saying his good-byes, something caught my eye. I really wanted them to touch on the subject, but they never did:
Why does his friend have an unopened 3-pack of sharpies in his bag?
Why does his friend have an unopened 3-pack of sharpies in his bag?
