Sunday, April 4, 2010

Rebirth

In commemoration of my birthday, to be more in line with the theme I've had going for a while now, (olives) and to convey a less in-your-face tone, the blog has now been relaunched as "The Olive Can." What exactly that means for the future, only time will tell, but I have a feeling things will be at least moderately different around here. ;)

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Birds!

I've finally "vectorized," this little cartoon. (Well, about a month ago, but I've been messing with it ever since.) This was sort of the clean-cut style I had in mind years ago when I first sketched him.

Before:


After:
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A._____________________B.
C._____________________D.


One THOUSAND points to the first person to name all four correctly! (Yeah, I got carried away with the coloring... too much fun!) Top left (A) is the ugly "original" color scheme I chose for him. Its kind of up in the air as to what kind of bird this one is. (I'm still calling him 'Joe' BTW.)

There are two weird things about this drawing. First, he sort of has thumbs on both wings and feet. His front toe thing seems to convert into a thumb at will. Second is his cute, yet impossible smile. Don't look at it too long, it doesn't make sense. ^_^