Sketchpad doodles

[Jasper]

I used to have a bad habit of drawing on things, so I thought I'd share.

Ladies and gerbils, the end product of a habit that almost held me back in high school:



You're going to say it's anime style, but I can't help it.  I learned off of webcomics as a youth.

[Triple Zero]

doesn't really appear as anime-style to me. it's inspired, probably, maybe in the eyes of the human characters.

but as cartoon-drawings, they look really good, Felix!

did you ever make any finished things? scanned / inked / coloured? perhaps a multi-panel short story?

[Jasper]

I never had the attention span to do really polished stuff in a storyline, but a friend and I would occasionally make these really silly comic books together by trading off making every other panel or so, without consulting one another.

Thanks for the compliment though!

[Triple Zero]

oh, cool, i used to play that as a "game" in high school a lot.

i called it "cartoon war", basically both players pick a sort of avatar, (generally a cartoonish caricature of the player themselves, though some also drew mech-like robots, which just look retarded when they get a pie in their face, IMO), and we take turns drawing a couple of panels at a time.

basically there are no rules, except that the two characters somehow have a mortal dislike of eachother (no reason necessary, though taking revenge for being disintegrated in the previous story is common), you gotta comply to general narrative causality as much as possible because it makes the story more fun, and it's not really about winning but about the lulz

you could potentially fire an insta-death-no-retry lasergun at the other in the first panel, but it's a lot more fun if you allow him to react, leaving it up to him to draw the conclusion of whatever carnage or hilarity you have dumped on him.

[Jasper]

Yeah, there's a cooperative element to it.

Our comics usually started out with some average problem as a plot hook that was usually solved in some roundabout accidental way that involved way more grief and confusion than was strictly necessary.