ABC Challenge #22: "Snap!"

The quote this month for the Art by Committee Sketch game is:

Some Thoughtless Brigand

Some sketches from an old Conan comic, just getting a feel for Sword & Sorcery comics imagery. Maybe someday, I'd like to do a spoof on that kind of story.

Sketches: Boy Wonder

These are some sketches from a Robin comic. It's not easy to draw a scene that is essentially just two people talking. I wanted to learn from the artist some novel approaches to this task. I liked how he constantly changed vantage points, almost never using the same one.

The Man-Cave: Updated

This photo shows me and the Boy Scout troop my sons and I are part of. During summer camp, one of our projects was making a new sign for the climbing pavilion, which the scouts have nicknamed "The Man-Cave". Dan and I sketched the design out and started the carving with a router. Then each of the scouts used hand carving tools to finish the design. The camp loved it and it will be hung from the rafters of The Man-Cave!

Update: The photo at the top of the post shows what our sign looks like now that it's installed.

ABC Challenge #21: "Big Ugly"

Here's our assignment for this month's Art by Committee:

...followed by my entry!

Eagle Scout Court of Honor

This is from today's Morning Times, the paper in Sayre, PA. I can remember the first night I walked Dan to Tiger Cubs. Going to scouts quickly became his favorite thing to do, and remained so for years. He liked to try to get every badge and pin he could as he moved up through the ranks of Wolf, Bear and Webelos.

It meant a lot to him when he "crossed over" to Boy Scouts, and he especially enjoyed doing a lot more camping -- including those below zero temperature "Polar Bear Campouts". Scouting is a great program, and helps boys become well-rounded young men with merit badges in academic areas, survival skills, and civics. I really believe in the values they promote, and I'm especially proud of my son for going all the way and achieving the highest rank.

In the photo he is taking the Scout Oath one more time before receiving his Eagle.

On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

Crash! Boom! Bang!

I made this comic a couple years ago. It was for an anthology that never saw print. The idea was that every artist would draw their interpretation of the scene below:

"You are in a dark room when you hear the following series of sounds: chrrt, vreep, plink, skssst, blurgle, ving, frungt, paf, spang, wfft, tchug, tchug, reeeee, ka-tong, wham, smurchle boof, tsss, ting."

No additional sounds or words were allowed. Here's what I came up with.