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Published: 2010-07-18 21:45:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 2869; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 116
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Concept sketch for a potential project. Colored pencil on vellum paper. Not my characters, but my take on someone else's characters.Related content
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This was done as an art sample for a someone else's project. The bear and penguin were part of the project already. I just drew what I was asked to draw. I never heard back from them anyway. Either it was a scam to get free art, or the project just went nowhere.
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Something like that I guess. Actually Hanna-Barbera had a Polar Bear and Seal team ...I forget their names, who pestered the General of some US Arctic military base. I think they were on the Frankenstein Jr. Tv show if I remember right.
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Hahaha, cute style! You should draw more cartoon animals like that. BTW, doyou take sketch requests?
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Thank you. Glad you like it.
Sorry, I don't do requests anymore, but I do COMMISSIONS, if you're interested.
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Ha! Not as far as I'm concerned.
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I like these characters, even though they shouldn't be together!
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You're probably too young to recall, but Hanna Barbera had a polar bear/seal cartoon team back in the 60s. But they are not well known today.
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Kinda reminds me of Hanna-Barbera animation from the '60's or early '70's. The big guy is probably "smarter than the average bear". On second thought, given his expression, maybe not.
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I do not deny I am terribly influenced be 60s HB animation.
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That's good! Admitting it is the first step (1 of 12). Now we can get you some discreet therapy. Oh, hell. It could be worse. You could be a rabid fan of Japanese animation, and draw "Sailor Moon" or something...
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If this is the worst mania I ever develop, I think I can live with it. Just as long as I don't become a TWILIGHT fan!
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Well, you can obviously push a noun against a verb to form a cogently written sentence, which puts you way ahead of the "Twilight" crowd. Anime fans, too.
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Why thank you. I also refuse to Text Speak! I hate it when I get a comment or an e-mail containing that sort of Orwellian "1984" New Speak!
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You know, Morse Code was the original "text speak", back in the 1840's. When the telephone came along thirty years later, it freed people from the labor of writing out their thoughts in order to communicate.
140 years after that we have global cell phone service, and how do people want to use it? To write out their thoughts in "text speak". Samuel Morse would be proud.
Did I mention the effect it has on grammar in our schools? And I thought cartoons dumbed down kids. Jeez...
P.S. Watch those thought crimes, citizen--you're being watched.
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Morse code was tool...as was the telegram. Truncated certainly, for good reason. But people who used it did not then transfer it's truncation into their speech or their written correspondence, like texters do today. Text Speak is also a needed truncation, but it has started to take over other forms of the written word.
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Yes, as I said, it is ruining grammar in schools, as the young come to consider it the norm for the written word. Were I an English teacher, I'd be drinking Maalox right out of the bottle.
There's an irony to something else you pointed out: though speech in telegrams and telegraph messages was necessarily truncated, the people who used them also wrote some of the most florid and eloquent literature in history. They could truncate when necessary, then turn it off--an ability lost to today's youth.
Personally, I blame most of socety's ills on artists with overweight cats. You know how they are.
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English teacher? Really? Believe it or not, I think that is Cool! I always enjoyed english class in school.
I could not agree more with your appraisal of the situation.
BTW, I am an artist and I have several overweight cats.
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Reminds me of a great Far Side cartoon where the penguins are worried about their dwindling numbers on an ice floe. A polar bear is wearing a tiny penguin beak "in disguise," lounging among them.
Jag
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Did you know that a male bear is a boar?
Jag
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Nah, it's actually (strangely) true.
And I see their inspiration for Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin.
Jag
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A female penguin is called a hen. A male penguin is called....
a male penguin.
Jag
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That's me. While I hover above the Canadian tundra in my Mutual of Omaha-provided helicopter, sipping a latte with a local Eskimo girl, I'll just let "Jim" wrestle the seven Arctic Polar Bears. If Jim gets in any trouble and radios for help, I'll send "Bill" in.
Jag
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A buddy of mine used to go into his best Marlin Perkin's voice and say:"While Jim wrestles the lion, I'll wait up here in this tree. And remember while life is uncertain for the lion, YOU can be sure with Mutual Of Omaha..."
I remember seeing the funniest 'blooper' on the show. It wasn't pointed out, it was just THERE for you to catch or not. Marlin and Jim were wrestling this huge python or boa in the shallows of a lake. Marlin was REALLY in there, but was not doing too well. I think without Jim's help Marlin would have been snake food! Both men were soaked to the skin, and Marlin actually went under water a couple of times. JIm was managing to at least stay above water.. There was a shot of Jim grabbing at the slippery coils of the snake and you were not sure just what was going on...suddenly Jim whips back his hand and looks at it. He squeezed at the webbing between thumb and fore finger and you actually saw BLOOD! Your first reaction was:"Oh man! The snake got him!", but after he squeezed out the blood, he looks down at his right hip, and you see him take a moment and re-insert his big hunting knife back into it sheath from which it had half emerged during the battle with the snake. Jim had cut himself on his own knife!
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Looks like someone inadvertently got their "pound of flesh."
Jag
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A quickie, but fun to do. It may turn into a commission project, but there is a LOT of competition.
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I wish you good luck for it.
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Thanks, we'll see what happens.
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Looks pretty good. Is this a comment on Global Warming?
"Gee, there used to be more ice here."
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I know nothing about the 'story' for these guys. But I suspect it may have something to do with global warming.
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I used to work at an Arctic Circle. It's a fast food chain whose mascots were Arti and Clyde; a penguin and polar bear. It was my first job, back when pay day meant part night. That alone puts this renduring into my faves. It's well drawn, as always, and sparks memories of good times.
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Bet you wish you still had that job! NOT!
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And here are some potential lines:
Bear:"Hey penguin...what's black and white on Monday and is brown, lumpy and smells like bear poop on Tuesday?"
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...in Dreamworks' hilarious new comedy: "Ice Flow". What happens when a wise-cracking penguin gets stuck on an Ice Flow with a not so bright but hungry polar bear?
Damn! I could write these trailers!
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Now you see what I'm sayin'? Al Gore melted all that ice with his global warming and soon they'll be drounded!
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I think they go to the United States and the Bear rips Gore's head off and the penguin craps down his neck.
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I saw recently saw where Gore purchased an expensive ocean front home on the West coast....Gee Al...I thought the coast was going to flood and fall into the sea?
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Nah. He just made that up so he could control the "carbon-credit" scam. You got to tip your hat to him. Now h can boot his wife out and take up with some swooning hollywood Starlets. The old grey nag just ain't what she used to be.
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