“Hang on to your ass, Fred!” Great line from the end of 1977’s “Smokey and the Bandit”. Never has a movie sold more cars than the black Trans Am in the Bandit film.
If cartoon breasts offend you, then the next couple days may not be your cup of tea. Cartooning tip #101: Drawing Boobs. It’s not as easy you think. Not only do breasts require the correct contours and placement, but when coloring them, a certain subtlety is required. Normally, we cartoonist outline everything in ink, then color in the lines (stay in the lines!). But you will notice that I do not draw in the bottom line of the girl’s eyes (it makes them look odd to me) and use the color difference between the flesh and white of the eye to create the “line”. So it goes for the areola of a breast. I’ve drawn pin ups before and if I draw the nipple and areola outlined in ink, it once again looks odd. In essence I’m painting them in with color and it is a tad tricky to get the angle and shading correct. It is also kinda a weird thing to practice as people look at you as some sort of perv… then they shouldn’t be looking at what I’m drawing, now should they?
Also, today’s comic was a perspective nightmare. I have a ton of drafting/mechanical drawing experience so visualizing perspectives is not that hard, but realizing a down-shot on the back of a van being towed at an up-angle while a 3-tiered giant cake rolls out the back is a whole lotta fun! I like to challenge myself.
Doobie Brothers! Learned what a doobie was from my oldest sister when I was 16. She’s 10 years older than me and I spent a week at her house that summer. Her husband “loved” having me around. It was about that time that I discovered Pink Floyd too. Coincidence? I think not. Thanks to her, and beer, I remember more about the 60s then I do about the 70s. God bless older sisters.
And Robyn is about to go “Rockin’ Down The Highway”, so toon in tomorrow and see what happens!
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BOOB!!
Damn, i feel like I’m 12 again. Remember kids, boobies are better than doobies. no, wait, they’re both equally awesome 🙂
Heh, I pride myself on having never grown up. And people have been nudging me to have a boob-shot, so being one to cave into peer pressure I have delivered!
Hey, if it’s in context, then it’s fine with me. 🙂
From what I can see, you’ve done a GREAT job on Robin! And I like the new Neon logo!
You should try drawing and coloring it at 600DPI full screen. Was a bit weird and sexy at the same time. I did feel like a kid, which was fun!
Glad I hit the mark! 😛
Ooh, hadn’t noticed the logo (for some odd reason)… I agree with Nicholas – you did a great job on both the logos and Robin!
Yeah, the original font I picked just wasn’t working for me. It looked great really big (lots of neat bevels) but at once you shrank it down to saw 200 pixels, it looked like crap. Some folks commented that Neon is more a 50s motif, but it also was very big in Discos and stuff. The opening shots of “Saturday Night Fever” had the movie’s title in Neon, so I think it’s a classic look. This logo shrinks down nicely and holds up even at like 100 pixels.
I know I’m suppose to maintain a consistent brand, but hey, I’m an artist too and things change.
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50’s? Puh-leeze. That font just SCREAMS 70’s. I remember it used in the “Scramble” arcade game as well as a couple pinball machines. In fact, I ought to count how many games have that font when I hit Funspot on Webcomics Weekend weekend.
I’m at a complete loss for words. Poor Robyn! Of course she looks fantastic. 😀
Doobie Brothers! Hell yeah! Had every album of theirs, listened to them regularly for over 30 years & am still not tired of them. Gonna have to collect them all over again …
Doobie Boobie… hey, it’s Two-fer-Tuesday! 😛
You draw a beautiful nipple.
I have had good models in my life… 🙂
I think the perspective is just as it should be in the last panel. I especially like the night shadowing, it’s a very cool effect. So, have you been practicing your boob drawing at page3.com? Those ladies are well endowed and would make awesome models for sure. It’s been years since I heard any Doobie Bros. Guess they’ll have to go on the download list.
I will go check that site out. And the Doobies are worth revisiting… especially their earlier stuff, up to and including “Captain and Me”. Great stuff.
I’m suddenly reminded of the old Tom and Jerry cartoon, “The Hollywood Bowl” … Tom is conducting the orchestra, and Jerry puts wheels on the podium and shoves Tom off stage and out into the street. Now I’m going to be imagining that cake rolling down the road while classical music is playing (probably the finale to “Carnival Of The Animals”)
OooO! That would make a nice finale to Robyn’s story arc. Tom and Jerry were the best!
“Her knockers bouncin’ all over the joint…” 😀
Like that one scene in “Airplane” when the plane is being buffeted about and a topless girl just walks in front of the camera and shakes her money makers. Never laughed so hard in my life.
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Doobies & Boobies… Maybe if the Doobie Bros. ever got a female lead they could change their name? Excellent work Byron, titilating even! (Sorry, couldn’t resist!)
The Doobie Brothers. In the early 70’s one of the rockingist bands out there. “Rockin’ Down The Highway”, “China Grove”, “Long Train Runnin'”, “Neal’s Fandango”… I not only shredded my speaker cones with their early harder stuff, but really dug their softer ballads like “South City Midnight Lady”, too. Live, they were a sonic force to be reckoned with, and “Road Angel” is in my opinion, one of the greatest R ‘n’ R stompers ever penned. Live, they would pair it up with “Neal’s Fandango” & it flat out kicked ass! (There’s a version of that from a mid-70’s concert on YouTube – probably from the “Stampede” tour in ’75 that I saw them on). But… by ’76, with Michael McDonald taking more of the lead, the band went in a totally pop direction. After “Taking It to the Streets” they lost me, & to this day if I hear “You Belong to Me” or “What a Fool Believes”, I change the station… but back in the day, man, what a band!
“Live on our stage tonight… the Doobie Boobies!!” I can see Ed Sullivan saying that… 🙂
If you want a real treat, go find the Doobie Brothers’ 1989 release called “Cycles” It is the “Captain and Me” line-up reunited to crank out one more album to re-establish the great Doobie Brothers tradition of rock and roll. I too am a fan of the Doobies’ quieter stuff like “Ukiah” and the stuff you mentioned. “Captain and Me” has the distinguished honor of my having not only the vinyl version, but the cassette, reel-to-reel and CD versions. Great stuff for sure!
Don’t even mention or play the Michael McDonald crap. That was *not* the Doobie Brothers in my opinion. Especially when Tom Johnston left the band. Ugh.
Oh, this is SO not going to go well… 🙂
Thanks, Byron. I was familiar with the song, of course, but didn’t know its title until just now.
And yeah – Michael McDonald totally ruined that band. Like so many ’70s artists (*cough* Styx *cough* Kiss *cough *The BeeGees *cough* Chicago *cough* Heart *cough* Van Halen *cough*cough*cough*) the Doobies started off with a fair-to-rockin’ original sound, hit the pop charts, had a personnel change or three, and disappeared up their own asses, leaving behind a legacy of great early songs and a vastly more memorable – and *gag* more commercially successful – catalog of shite. Thank all the gods of rock for Punk and its poppier little New Wave sister. Though responsible for their own tides of swill, those movements buried the likes of “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” and “What a Fool Believes” six feet under where they belonged… for a while, anyway.
(Man, what does it say about the state of current music when a turdstorm like “Disco Inferno” sounds GOOD by comparison?)
There you go mentioning bad songs again… Now they’re in ALL of our heads. Nice one…
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Hey, was in one Disco and, except for the music, it was a pretty hot night… let me tell you.
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Here’s one to bring it back… An alternate song title that would’ve worked well here would be “Roll On Down The Highway”, my favorite BTO song. 🙂
I *really* wanted to use that song title but I’ve been BTO heavy in the comics in the past and felt I should give a little “air time” to the Doobies this time. But, you’re right, that is a great song! Fred Turner has the best damn rock voice ever…
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(Oh, dammit! Now I have “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” stuck in my head. Damn you, Desmond Child! Damn youuuuuuuuu!!!)
Love the logo change as well. I will have to get a shirt of it sometime, when I have the money…the reason I even checked out the comic was I was born in 1977. Always good to know the times were just as crazy as I thought they were (and my parents said they weren’t).
Also, as my one teacher would always tell us…”eat your pb & j and listen to the Doobies.”
So, born in 1977, eh? Where did your Mom hang out… we may be related… 😛
That’s my standard line to you all born in 1977. It was a crazy year for me and I *did* hang out in a *lot* of bars, but mostly here in Illinois, so the rest of you are safe!
I’d love to put the new logo on a shirt if enough folks want it. The bass neck makes it for me… but then I played bass.
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Welcome to the Brotherhood. 😀
In non-nipple news, I started out not drawing the bottom line of the eyes, but found it had a weird chipmunk effect at times. That has lessened as I’ve moved more away from the anime style, but the bottom lines do seem to work for me.
Ah, but you don’t close the lines around the eye off either… so in a way we’re in the same ballpark. Of course, I draw Little Orphan Annie eyes for all my male characters (as men are very blank anyway, so why not complete the motif with blank eyes… 🙂 )
Hey, whatever floats our boats, eh? 😛
Yeah, I never did like the closed-off sides. And males are definitely less of a priority when it comes to eye prettiness. 🙂
And I’m no longer reading this comic.
To each his, or her, own Pam. The great thing about any medium is you make the final choices. If for whatever reason you found today’s comic offensive, C’est la vie. I’m sorry to see anyone leave, but it’s all part of the business.
Live long and prosper.
Oh well, at least one piece of filth got cleaned out of your readership. You say ‘live long and prosper’ to it. I saw ‘die badly and do it without reproducing so the species won’t have more of your kind of mental defectives’ 🙁
Eh, I’m use to it. I did radio and TV for years… we’re always upsetting someone and actually I had program directors that judge you by the number of complaints you got. He felt if you didn’t get any complaints, you weren’t doing your job (pushing the envelope, etc.) and just taking it easy.
There’s a weird point in that somehow…
We can disagree with no harm done, but I have *never* had patience with bluenoses. They’re a blot on humankind. Nasty little motherfrakkers!
Like I said… C’est la vie… I’ve got tomorrow’s comic to finish!
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More wardrobe malfunctions? Bring it on! 😀
Just pretend they’re butts, Pam. You’ve seen plenty of those here and stuck around.