~ Quick Storyboard Sequential... ~

~ Take Two ... ~

As per usual, I post something that I'm not happy with 5 minutes later. So, another handful of hair pulled and yet another redraw - on one single piece of paper this time:



And some attempt to make amends for my lack of proper shape and silhouette last post:


I realized that - other than using two pieces of paper taped together, and not drawing fluidly or quickly enough - I hit the first Soldat illustration right after I had read some dated obituaries for Hunter Thompson. I figure that one (or several) of the images from the article - consciously or otherwise - stuck in my head when I started drawing; hence another awesome excuse for why the pose came out the way it did.

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Speaking of which: Something cool I noticed while browsing through my laptop archive of pictures - every so often there'd be a random pairing of images together, one after the other, that would look pretty cool: They'd either mirror-image eachother in some way (faces, elements, pose, theme), or else they'd be complete contradictions. Fairly random placing to boot...

Sound boring and convoluted? You bet it is! Here are some examples:


-Akashi Gidayu writing his death poem just before committing seppuku... and Hunter Thompson.

-Operation Ivy (S.F.) and The Faith (D.C.), one apparently channeling the energy of the other.


-Because Ukrainian car models and English punks... tend to be white. And like to pose.


-I'll venture a guess the Google search that day was for something blue.


-About as opposite as you can get. War and Peace, anybody?


-Ok, so these two images weren't exactly side by side - but I couldn't resist. Bill Shatner shamelessly doing a plug for Commodore "computer-and-game" system, and a Soviet poster - which (I think) reads: "With Capitalism: Millions of unemployed workers".

~ Der Streunersoldat... Awaiting orders, sir. ~
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Overall, pose isn't quite reading as I wanted - chalk it up to drawing on two sheets of paper taped together. I considered cropping the frame to about knee level or higher before posting this... But, in a way, I kind of like some sort of vulnerability to the characters, even if it's "you caught them before they could pose" type pose. (Look through any family photo album and you'll see what I mean.)

So, even if homeboy is sporting Kermit legs with a pantaloon kilt, there's still some room for charm or appeal...

Guess that's my justification for having a pose that isn't reading as dynamically or as exaggerated as I was hoping for. Oh well.


Our wandering soldier in the bushes with our heroine Ayin... No, not like that...

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"...'Tis not in the power of Britain to do this continent justice: The business of it will soon be too weighty and intricate to be managed with any tolerable degree of convenience by a power so distant from us and so very ignorant of us - for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or petition, waiting four or five months for an answer - which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in - will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness. There was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease."

-Thomas Paine; Common Sense

Just for fun, replace "Britain" with "Washington D.C.", "the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals", "the I.R.S.", "the Death Star * " - pick your favorite - and then reread the quote above.


(* Replace "miles" and "months" with "light years" and/or "parsecs".)

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Ah, and btw, a compare-and-contrast with one of my previous posts:


One with lighting and one without. While the one has more atmospheric perspective, I kind of like the depth of colors in the other. Hmm, not sure... Let me know what you think folks.