tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60088982011-07-07T16:04:29.117-07:00Oily Rags - Sketches Art and CartoonsWelcome to Oilyrags! I'm Austin Swinburn and this is a record of sketches, art and most especially cartoons that I've made. The cartoons are a special case. I'm publishing five a week with drawings but no words, so it's up to each reader to fill in the blanks. If you are inspired to do so, please go to comments and write out your script for me and other readers. Tons of fun!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.comBlogger1501100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-89544150034408477992010-09-24T09:22:00.001-07:002010-09-24T09:22:21.397-07:00Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-87968615774903679552010-08-22T19:30:00.000-07:002010-08-22T19:33:08.831-07:00A significant portion of the cast of War Cry.
Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-77172985321688090202010-08-12T04:23:00.001-07:002010-08-12T04:23:44.279-07:00And another
Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-91857720373622370222010-08-11T20:16:00.001-07:002010-08-11T20:16:32.116-07:00I made a thing.
Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-21423387635524909492009-07-10T05:36:00.001-07:002009-07-10T05:38:31.064-07:00Pervy BatmanI started this thing (still unfinished, as you can see) months ago, like in march or april or something. Whenever Project Rooftop's Batman redesign contest was announced. I got a little embarrassed about it, or decided it was too jokey or something, and never finished or submitted it. Probably I should've, just to excorsize the ghost of Fred Wertham.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-70607783093630881422009-07-10T05:34:00.000-07:002009-07-10T05:35:34.931-07:00KIMOTA!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-30457558359874656332009-07-10T05:30:00.000-07:002009-07-10T05:34:10.240-07:00Girls Girls Girls...Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-72237992895288275612009-07-06T05:20:00.000-07:002009-07-10T05:41:47.471-07:00Emo Robin is EmoLet's try something slightly different.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-74427764244434208542009-06-07T12:20:00.000-07:002009-06-07T12:27:09.555-07:00four fast sketches (three from Roland Garros 2009)Dinara Safina ready to return serve (except I think I blew it with the racquet in the left hand)Robin Sodering in extreme torsionRoger Federer reaching for a wide return, but then with Captain America's costume addedJust a doodlefaceAustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-80524706390889124012009-06-06T15:10:00.000-07:002009-06-07T05:11:00.867-07:00A woman's face.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-77213271630482786932009-04-30T08:33:00.000-07:002009-04-30T08:43:39.953-07:00I am proud to announce that I am now a contributor to the new Seebelow Comics Blog, which I will add to my blogroll as soon as I remember how. Check it out! Despite my presence, it's really funny and cool. Well, cool as comics fanboys ever get anyway.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-8710505961034188652008-11-06T08:52:00.000-08:002008-11-06T08:53:13.270-08:00Coming soon to Metal Edge magazine (Thanks, Phil!)ME!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-37039255086937461392008-11-05T11:41:00.001-08:002008-11-05T11:41:25.239-08:00My fiscal crisis/election night mix. Enjoy!1. Gang of Four "Capital (It Fails Us Now)"2. Coolio "County Line"3. The Coup "Fat Cats, Bigga Fish"4. M.I.A. feat. Bun B and Rich Boy "Paper Planes (Diplo Street remix)"5. Louvin Brothers "Cash on the Barrelhead"6. Merle Haggard "Hobo's Meditation"7. George Carlin "Muhammed Ali/America the Beautiful"8. Dengue Fever "Sober Driver"9. Ohio Players "Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-20292559612443946622008-11-05T07:09:00.001-08:002008-11-05T07:09:15.509-08:00What's happenin' CC? They still call it the White House but that's a temporary condition too, can you dig it CC?Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-86837425766618765472008-10-02T05:25:00.001-07:002008-10-02T05:25:18.053-07:00Topical!My photoshop coloring is still...uh, primitive, let's say. But I'm very pleased with the concept and not too pissed off at the execution.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-53617420109376823332008-09-12T16:58:00.000-07:002008-09-12T16:59:00.026-07:00Well, I finally taught myself to make an animated gif.If only my intentions were nobler.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-33274158141351433602008-07-07T05:22:00.001-07:002008-07-07T05:23:40.270-07:00a gift for a friendkind of low quality right now, just a digicam shot. I'll post a scan later on.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-35082996533369482782008-06-03T16:59:00.001-07:002008-06-03T16:59:43.497-07:00I drew this for no good reason, but my friend Jeff liked it enough it will be his birthday present as soon as I remember to go get a frame for it.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-53262862846758648772008-05-19T15:07:00.000-07:002008-05-19T15:08:06.146-07:00Three sketches from Saturday's Dr. Sketchy meetI think the one with the fan was 10 minutes and the other two were 15 minutes. Drawn fairly large (11"x17" pretty much) so I had to scan 'em in pieces and stitch 'em together in PS.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-28274805658703926462008-05-19T14:32:00.000-07:002008-05-19T14:33:33.778-07:00The Freudian Nightmare:With a name like that it goes under the cut because it is definitely NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR PROBABLY ANYTHING ELSE FOR THAT MATTER.There, now that wasn't so bad, was it?Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-70881395253154498052008-04-08T10:50:00.001-07:002008-04-08T10:50:57.333-07:00Liner notes to some mix-swap discs I made.STÄPLEKLÄW Vs. (A particular mix)1. A song before dying: "The Big Gundown" by Ennio Morricone - If you're gonna do a suicide by cop, you gotta get yourself hyped up for the event somehow.2. A song about a body part: "Cirrhosis of the Heart" by Foetus - I figure the cardiac muscle is going to see a lot of representation in this category, and why should I Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-47760403990777296592008-03-25T14:57:00.001-07:002008-03-25T14:58:24.521-07:00The other day I watched "To Catch a Thief"Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-83870426586889164012008-03-24T07:27:00.000-07:002008-03-25T14:57:04.392-07:00Soon to beHere's an idea I had about three weeks ago for something to put on my right forearm - running from the inside of the elbow pointing to the hand, just a reminder to myself about what my priorities should be.And here's the final art I came up with after spending a few hours yesterday cleaning things up.Now it's just a matter of waiting until my money is right.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-2549209534583248342008-03-11T16:36:00.000-07:002008-03-27T13:17:44.890-07:00Wolter Wierbos, solo live at Little CityAmazing, as usual for Epistrophy shows. Little City is tiny - I'd say the audience was only about 50 people, but you could still almost say the place was packed. Wierbos played a mindblowing solo set to start. The guy can make a trombone do or sound like anything - just an unbelievable bag of tricks including (but not limited to) circle breathing, bird Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-36305175771450181122008-02-12T05:20:00.001-08:002008-02-12T05:22:10.390-08:00Man, what a start to the week this has been. I feel like I've been worked over hard. Let me start at the beginning.As you may recall, my landlady Jude has given me until the end of February to move out, because she has another friend whom she wants to give my spot. I'm entirely ok with this, since I want a place with more space and privacy anyway, and besides, she told me in January when I was Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-42816513207354164352008-01-26T23:44:00.000-08:002008-01-26T23:45:21.274-08:00More of this silliness.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-41472480843837548642008-01-26T18:31:00.000-08:002008-01-26T18:32:52.700-08:00For some reason I forgot to post the thing I made that immediately set off my interest in the direction shown in the last two posts today. This was made a few weeks ago, and is pretty good, but still requires improvement. Certainly umlauts need to be added, and the K is a definite weak point.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-64593871362880644522008-01-26T08:43:00.000-08:002008-01-26T18:25:25.205-08:00An alternative to my last post:Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-82248918934137898132008-01-24T18:08:00.001-08:002008-01-24T18:08:45.313-08:00In the spirit of these, I offer this:Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-20590297696081087512007-10-29T08:36:00.001-07:002007-10-29T08:38:00.150-07:00A silly thing I did two weeks ago.If you don't get it, don't worry. But read Thomas Pynchon's V. for an explanation.OK, fine. It's a circuit diagram for a parallel resonating band stop filter, which creates a "V" shaped notch in an oscilloscope readout. Also, it looks like Kilroy.FINE I'M A GIANT NERD RIGHT I KNOW ALREADYAustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-88981272900179980032007-10-21T16:20:00.000-07:002007-10-21T16:21:57.731-07:00The goal - 24 pages in 24 hours, going in without a plan.The place - An old money garden estate by the lake with peacocks roaming the grounds, long since converted to a museum/school, and often (as last night) used for society weddings.The people - 8 gals, 22 guys, mostly skewing a lot younger than me (eI'd place the median at early 20s) but a couple other folks my age or perhaps older. Mostly Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-15147745884626435682007-09-21T03:47:00.000-07:002007-09-21T03:49:31.778-07:00I has a spider.It lives on the front porch and comes out at night to spin a huge beautiful orb-type web. Back in bed (whereever that is) by the time I leave for work.The web:Close-up:I'm saying about two inches long from toe to toe, if spiders had toes. Hell, they might for all I know.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-5554689448961239102007-07-16T06:42:00.000-07:002007-07-16T06:45:53.964-07:00JACK RISK: The Modern Moira Issue #1Regrettably, there will probably never actually be a comic book to go under this cover.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-51299812027911164632007-07-05T11:31:00.001-07:002007-07-05T11:31:44.026-07:00The job I thought I didn't get a couple of weeks ago was just offered to me.I start two weeks from Monday, as soon as this assignment finishes up.I have high hopes for benefits and job security and all that kind ofgood stuff that I've never had before.Let's see, how does that go again?\^/007!, I think.There is still the matter of it being a state job, so I'll likely bebroke as a joke throughout Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-85146067524087914122007-03-31T21:48:00.000-07:002007-03-31T21:50:07.397-07:00This is what happens when I watch Madigan with a sketchpad in my lap.One thing's for sure, I'm never going to be a "Good Girl Artist." God don't like ugly, but it's my specialty, seemingly.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-36220182271504323742007-03-20T20:29:00.000-07:002007-03-20T20:30:38.897-07:00My equinoctal headmowing:I started from my "Viking Berserker" lookAnd took it in stages: First: "Civil War General"Then, "70 Metalhead"Halfway there...and I'm shorn for the hot season!I had to clean the bathroom floor, though.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-21282138903456187532007-03-06T18:02:00.001-08:002007-03-06T18:02:40.194-08:00My lateish entry into Calamity Jon's art supplies photo meme.First, we have my constant companions. I'm almost never without this pocktful of pencils, pens, and in the center there, a folding protractor/straightedge/ruler. The pencils are Mars Lumographs in the hardnesses F H 3H 4H and on the soft side, 3B and 5B. The pens are Faber Castell Pitt markers in widths S M F and my favorite, B, Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-50909889783267885022007-02-13T21:59:00.000-08:002007-02-13T22:01:11.279-08:00Happy Valentine's Day!This drawing was prompted by a comment The Vulgar Trade made in response to a poll by Ludic Kid. Anyway, I pretty much agree with what he said, and decided to make a valentine greeting based on his good idea. So, I only get credit for the perspiration on this one, not the inspiration.possible titles: We Belong Dead -or- Sparks Fly!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1170071881091145632007-01-29T03:47:00.000-08:002007-01-29T03:58:01.176-08:00So, uh, well...I'm consistently posting faces anyway. No surprise that this is easiest for me. I've always had more fun drawing faces than anything else. Especially fat, ugly faces with unpleasant expressions like this fellow here. This, clearly is just a quick doodle with a hard pencil that got darkened up in photoshop. I used this curly, graceful line (at least somewhat) that I really Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1169700599318626362007-01-24T20:35:00.000-08:002007-01-24T20:49:59.333-08:00Straight Outta MoleskineIs it an update? Technically, yes. Is it half-assed? Technically, maybe not even that much. Anyway, in some sense this post is much like the previous, in that I was a-scribbling while I was watching TV. Some older boxing match on HBO On Demand in this case. A rather exciting superlightweight matchup between the veteran Juan Luis Castillo and talented newcomer Herman Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1169527798878488132007-01-22T20:46:00.000-08:002007-01-22T20:49:58.906-08:00Well, the posts do trickle in, don't they? Far behind schedule, but better than nothing, which is what I posted here for most of last year. Let's say I'm gearing up, just breaking a sweat in preparation for the real workout that's still coming. Yeah, that doesn't sound like a rationalization at all. Anyway, here's couple of doodles I made last night while watching my stories. What they have Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1169012220506334482007-01-16T21:34:00.000-08:002007-01-16T21:37:00.533-08:00Well, a little extra shading on the eye has improved things considerably, I think, but the face is still pretty assymetrical around the peepers. At least the lighting isn't a disaster anymore. Step by step - inch by inch...Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1169005225482635632007-01-16T19:34:00.000-08:002007-01-16T19:40:25.496-08:00So much for no blown deadlines. Still, I do have last Wednesday's drawing about half done and will try to finish it tonight to post tomorrow. I uh, I started it on Saturday morning. But tonight I spent an hour drawing yesterday's face entry while watching a kind of okay TV political military thriller. Anyway, this isn't based on any one face I saw while watching the tube, but bits and pieces Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1168348089806950322007-01-09T05:07:00.000-08:002007-01-09T05:08:09.820-08:00Bat-TuesdayBoy, this is half-assed, but it mostly got the stuff I wanted to get in it, so I'm posting it anyway. Also, I'm so tired that working on it any more is going to make it worse instead of better, and I'm not missing any deadlines over piddly little considerations like quality.Anyway, I chose to draw Batman today because of a conversation in Seebelow and Ludickid's ljabout Batman that Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1168256385598246462007-01-08T03:39:00.000-08:002007-01-08T03:40:04.180-08:00Mondayface! I don't think I did a very good job of scanning this. Oh well, every aspect the entire enterprise will improve with practice. This was drawn in about 2 hours without reference on a Canson 9x12 sketch pad with Prismacolor cool greyscale markers over 3h pencils. I'd say the pencils were knocked out in a half an hour, with the rest of the time spent on tone. There's absolutely no Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1167963987392142222007-01-04T18:24:00.000-08:002007-01-04T18:26:27.423-08:00So The Ludic Kid announced that he'd return to updating the Ludic Log next week on a daily basis and made it a little easier on his own bad self by working out a schedule of when he'd be posting what kind of writing. Good on him, and I wish him the best at it, as always.I've always been a filthy lazy bum with nothin' but potential, though, so I saw his announcement and thought "hey, there's an Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1167061459599362182006-12-25T07:42:00.000-08:002006-12-25T07:44:19.613-08:00Fucking hell.I got to see him in action, at least. About ten years ago - I know I've talked about this before, but surely if there's any time that it bears repeating, it must be now.It was a big three-day outdoor festival called "One World" at some country-club type venue that I don't think was ever used for live music before or since. He played Friday night, and was the only performer of any Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1159326564746917302006-09-26T20:09:00.000-07:002006-09-26T20:09:24.773-07:00I love the way that google maps distorts perspective by marrying photos taken from different vantage points into a single image. For a particularly good example, check out the corner of North Lake Shore and East Ohio in Chicago, with the Lake Point Apartment Building on the right side of your screen.Totally Escher, yeah?Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1157237525649520732006-09-02T15:51:00.000-07:002006-09-02T15:52:05.663-07:00Idiocracy is definitely not the grim disaster that it's un-release would have you suppose. AS you probably know, the plot is your basic Sleeper/Buck Rogers rip, with a regular guy from the present sent to the far future (the deus ex plot device here is a military experiment,) the twist being that in the future things have gotten worse as people have gotten stupider. An opening montage with a Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1155590550476015272006-08-14T14:20:00.000-07:002006-08-14T14:22:30.493-07:00Larger image behind link, if you can't read it at this size.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1155590306411815002006-08-14T14:16:00.000-07:002006-08-14T14:18:26.426-07:00It's a bit too small to read, but this is classified as "difficulty: medium." I think that's pushing it, considering.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1153017671085123702006-07-15T19:36:00.000-07:002006-07-15T19:44:02.486-07:00I have contributed a three-page story to 'Calamity' Jon Morris' anthology project, modestly titled "Calamity!" Here is the first page of it. To see the rest, go to the Calamity Project website. It's full of great stuff!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1143118071447389142006-03-23T04:47:00.000-08:002006-03-23T04:47:51.466-08:00Okay, so all you artsy-smarty types, I've finally gotten all the symmetry issues hammered out, so here's what I've got so far.I want to create this thing (partially inspired by freeway overpass charts) in such a way that it "reads" as if each color cord/cable/strand/whatever has a definite direction that is its origin, and then the five representative strands of each color diverge and move in Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1136313139500113582006-01-03T10:31:00.000-08:002006-01-03T10:32:19.510-08:00Day 2Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1136205622603587232006-01-02T04:34:00.000-08:002006-01-02T04:54:53.520-08:00Well, it's back. I've souped up my computer with Windows 2000 and 384megs of ram to run it on, and made a new years eve resolution (among others) to update this here blog 260 times this year. That's five times a week, every week for fifty two weeks. No more dead bandwidth! So here we go, starting a new 'storyline' (if such a word applies to the dialogueless wonders that I post.) As always, Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1134873527913204132005-12-17T18:38:00.000-08:002005-12-17T18:38:47.926-08:00Art thieves steal two ton Henry Moore sculptureThis makes me think that the guys who jacked "The Scream" last year at gunpoint, like a gallery is a 7-11, issued a general challenge to do something even more outrageous. I just hope that the theory that it was stolen for its value as scrap metal is bullshit - if art is going to be stolen, it should at least go to collectors.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1131293082016546722005-11-06T08:04:00.000-08:002005-11-06T08:04:42.026-08:00Unfortunately, some problem most likely connected to my neglectful approach to protection from malware has rendered my home computer unusable for a time. This will result, inevitably, in an inability to update this journal in a timely manner until I solve the problem. In the meantime, I will continue to draw crudely concieved and executed strips daily and I ask you, my fans and collaborators, Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1131146693731564912005-11-04T15:23:00.000-08:002005-11-04T15:24:53.743-08:00A Poem 4 UI've said it before, now I'll say it again.Control C, Control V, you are my bestest friend.please contribute dialog for this cartoon in comments.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1131064415799947462005-11-03T16:31:00.000-08:002005-11-03T16:33:35.813-08:00Bright Lights, Big PityMostly an experiment in crosshatch shading. It'd probably be more interesting if there were dialog, though. Go ahead and give it a shot in commentsAustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1130946666491440092005-11-02T07:48:00.000-08:002005-11-02T07:51:06.503-08:00Could I be a key animator for semi-realistically drawn cartoons? Maybe. Maybe not. Flat Black Productions didn't want me when they were hiring for "A Scanner Darkly" anyway. But I didn't show them this!They're probably saying something to each other, too. What? I dunno. How about you? Maybe in comments.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1130854530657711672005-11-01T06:11:00.000-08:002005-11-01T06:15:30.666-08:00WATCHIN' TEEVEE!Boy aren't television advertisements annoying and often inappropriate! And how about that airline food?Anyway, fill in the dialog bubbles in comments and show me whatcha got.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1130765355476038342005-10-31T05:18:00.000-08:002005-10-31T05:29:18.933-08:00HAPPY HALLOWE'EN!!!!Ooh, an update a graveyard, scary! Maybe you could fill in the inscriptions on the headstones, and not just the dialog bubbles. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1128716737796260892005-10-07T13:24:00.000-07:002005-10-07T13:25:37.800-07:00Hmmm...well, I think the first couple of panels are mostly good...Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1128660887131907972005-10-06T21:52:00.000-07:002005-10-06T21:56:07.523-07:00I think this series is improving as it goes along. Still a long way to go, of course, especially with getting dramatic shading to where it doesn't look totally retarded. But at least I seem to be making progress with framing and block action and moving the 'camera' where it needs to be.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1128606452637754292005-10-06T06:46:00.000-07:002005-10-06T06:47:32.643-07:00Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1128393499398084322005-10-03T19:38:00.000-07:002005-10-03T19:38:19.396-07:00And here's Tuesday's entry, since I don't think I'll have time in the morning to mess with it. Also, if I can start a schedule of two strips a day, maybe I can catch up to myself.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1128393181674233972005-10-03T19:30:00.000-07:002005-10-03T19:34:05.803-07:00Well, two weeks with almost no updates. This won't make up for that, but I'm trying to get my shit together and on schedule again. In the meantime, I've been looking a lot at the Collected Jack Kirby Collector, Beto Hernandez' Luba stories, Jim Woodring, Mark Martin, Darwyn Cooke, and Burne Hogarth. Will my work be as good as theirs? Sure, when pigs fly. Anyway, picking up where we left off.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1127184749969511482005-09-19T19:50:00.000-07:002005-09-19T19:52:29.976-07:00I'm doing something a little different this week, since there was good reaction to the expressionistic shading on one of the strips last week. So, it's not a comic strip now, it's a DRAMATIC ADVENTURE strip. Woo! Which also means a larger format to better see the finer linework.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1126914136736454982005-09-16T16:40:00.000-07:002005-09-16T16:42:16.740-07:00So, at what point to you exceed mere broad caricature and pass into the realm of grotesque, hateful stereotype? I'm gonna have to say about fifty miles back.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1126784846369455252005-09-15T04:46:00.000-07:002005-09-15T04:47:26.373-07:00Boy, I'll bet you've never seen a strip about a street crazy wearing a sandwich board before!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1126698897072546712005-09-14T04:53:00.000-07:002005-09-14T04:54:57.076-07:00Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1126659520620577562005-09-13T17:34:00.000-07:002005-09-13T17:58:40.626-07:00Hey it's another highly cliched standard issue cartoon situation! Make of that, and it, what you will.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1126587018798372552005-09-12T21:43:00.000-07:002005-09-12T21:50:18.816-07:00Wow, here's an idea that's positively incandescent with originality! Ah, well, at least it's on time. If you pretend that last week never happened.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1126310399919631752005-09-09T16:59:00.000-07:002005-09-09T17:00:14.300-07:00Okay, so my temp agency contact gives me a call today (I did as recommended and laid a guilt trip on her yesterday) to talk about a possible assignment. The hours are a bit strange, 10pm to 6am, but that sounds alright - I haven't done graveyard too much before, but I tend toward nightowlish. The location would be great, too. The Austin Convention Center, which is easy walking distance from the Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1125807451587389902005-09-03T21:16:00.000-07:002005-09-03T21:17:38.916-07:00I just came home from a shift got the news that Chessie Bear, aka Cheesey Chessie has had a stroke. I've been in the kitchen, where he's lying down, talking to him and trying (and failing) to get him to eat some cheese (his favorite treat) and mostly crying. He'll sometimes lift his head up to look around, but he won't pull his right-side paws away if you handle them. The most he'd do for me Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1125721571818305062005-09-02T21:24:00.000-07:002005-09-02T21:26:11.823-07:00Well, it's in before midnight, you gotta say that for it.More self-referential bs.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1125631324595778232005-09-01T20:20:00.000-07:002005-09-01T20:22:04.600-07:00Whaddaya do when you're all out of ideas? Cynically rip off Create a loving tribute to one of your heroes!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1125540825544056552005-08-31T19:11:00.000-07:002005-08-31T19:13:54.150-07:00So, whaddaya do when you're out of ideas? Here's a two-for-one, something morbid and gross, plus a cut and paste job!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1125406014366701902005-08-30T05:44:00.000-07:002005-08-30T05:46:54.370-07:00So, whaddaya do when you're out of ideas? Cheesecake, of course!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1125365669019916282005-08-29T18:33:00.000-07:002005-08-29T18:36:18.223-07:00Whaddaya do when you're out of ideas? Self-referential bs, of course!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1125063650397485272005-08-26T06:37:00.000-07:002005-08-26T06:40:50.403-07:00Based on a furtive sketch from life it's - bus lady!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124979861176500352005-08-25T07:23:00.000-07:002005-08-25T07:24:21.180-07:00I think I better do another woman tomorrow. This is getting a bit sausage-intensive.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124933351138991202005-08-24T18:27:00.000-07:002005-08-24T18:29:11.136-07:00As a special added bonus, here's a page from my small notebook, an excercise in markmaking/zen meditation.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124933243690530452005-08-24T18:24:00.000-07:002005-08-24T18:45:46.370-07:00Continuing a week of character studies, here's a freaky looking bald and bearded bug-eyed s.o.b.I kinda hope nobody comments on this entry, I'm not sure I want to know what a guy who looks like that has to say.(That's reverse psycholomogoly.)Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124803455241397992005-08-23T06:22:00.000-07:002005-08-23T06:24:15.246-07:00Another character study, this time all in captions. Ooh, pseudo-expressionisticy!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124693604877449252005-08-21T23:51:00.000-07:002005-08-21T23:53:24.883-07:00Well, after a week of inanimate objects, we're shifting gears to character pieces this week here at Oilyrags, so here's a skinhead for ya. Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124459252760819472005-08-19T06:47:00.000-07:002005-08-19T06:47:32.766-07:00And finishing up "inanimate objects week" we have...simple forms. This exciting variation includes not just TWO kinds of light and shade effects, but a vertical format as well. Man, thrilling.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124418834371373312005-08-18T19:29:00.000-07:002005-08-18T19:35:27.123-07:00Phones!Inanimate object week continues with objects that are sorta kinda supposed to be capable of speech. But saying what? Hmmmm...Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124284867986060172005-08-17T06:18:00.000-07:002005-08-17T06:21:07.990-07:00I'm not really sure what I was going for here. I guess you better decide for me.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124241457839880252005-08-16T18:14:00.000-07:002005-08-16T18:17:37.846-07:00Still more inanimate objects! Looks like a theme week in the making.Toilet humor? Yeah, toilet humor. Man, it's nothin' but class around here!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124157471116964052005-08-15T18:54:00.000-07:002005-08-16T18:19:07.020-07:00More inanimate objects! Well, sorta inanimate, here.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1124080750581676682005-08-14T21:37:00.000-07:002005-08-14T21:39:10.586-07:00Day (or two or three) late, dollar (or two or three) short.What do dice say? You tell me.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1123821027348062702005-08-11T21:28:00.000-07:002005-08-11T21:30:27.353-07:00Boy, and you thought yesterday's was a hacked out steaming pile. I have literally no ideas today, as you can see. This was drawn awfully fast and completely on automatic pilot. I'm posting it here cause I promised you and myself that there would be no interruptions (and even so, I'm coming right down to the wire on this.) But believe me, this would never see the light of day if it wasn't for Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1123685975097568662005-08-10T07:55:00.000-07:002005-08-11T21:32:31.173-07:00b-o-o-o-r-ingThis is embarassing, just an excuse to see if I could switch up the placements of word balloons and figures. But the drawings are dull and crude. I shouldn't do this stuff right after I wake up, I can tell. Oh well, at least it keeps me on schedule.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1123637085282543992005-08-09T18:23:00.000-07:002005-08-09T18:24:45.290-07:00Copyright Infringement comics!Hey, join the fun and set Bob Kane spinning in his grave and Time Warner's lawyers spinning in their office chairs!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1123559300337771112005-08-08T20:47:00.000-07:002005-08-08T20:48:20.346-07:00Wow, I sure hacked this piece of shit out in a hurry.crtl-c, ctrl-v, you are my bestest friends!Except for those of you with rapier wits who will redeem my incompetence with your genius. Get cracking.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1123287674495077382005-08-05T17:19:00.000-07:002005-08-05T17:22:43.873-07:00I'm not even sure it's neccesary to add dialog to this, but do it anyway, you lazy slobs!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1123209192526616562005-08-04T19:32:00.000-07:002005-08-04T19:33:12.530-07:00RAWK! AND! ROLL!Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1123075191868819262005-08-03T06:17:00.000-07:002005-08-03T06:19:51.873-07:00Could it be? Am I actually updating in the morning, instead of late at night when no one will see it? Yes, it is!And look at that! A VERTICALLY FORMATTED STRIP! Truly, a exceptional innovation.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6008898.post-1123040189911315242005-08-02T20:34:00.000-07:002005-08-02T20:36:29.916-07:00That's a caption box in the bottom half of the third panel. When you fill up our passionate orator's voice bubbles, you might want to consider putting something there, too.Austinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736900343914779319noreply@blogger.com0