h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Very odd, but very funny. Wee me likes

Love the design style! Ink and brush?

Ink and *pen* and brush... and I use paper too because that's just the kind of no nonsense chap I am (and if I draw on my buttocks it's very difficult to scan).

Is your own work a mixture of computer generation and hand drawing, Wowbagger? It enables you to achieve some very nice effects I think, but you must have the dickens of a perseverance - it's all I can do to get the scanner to work. Mind you, it's never been the same since I tried to press my trousers in it.

Thank you for putting me right there LOL
Never having seen you buttocks or your trousers I'm not at liberty to comment on those aspects of you posting.

As for my technique you've pretty much got it in one.
Pencil, paper, scan, colour digitally. Sheer genius, that.

Thanks what I tried, quite good at the drawing, pretty good at the recolouring a touch ups, not so good at the scanning with no scanner part.

-- DoctorMO --

Any fool can be bad at scanning with no scanner, it's being abysmal *with* one that takes skill and talent (though years of intensive lack of training helps).

I'm still in awe of anyone who can manipulate a machine and get it do what they want - even more so in art. If I were to use a computer in art it would be Jackson Pollock style: covering it in paint and flinging it at the wall.

yer thats realy funny, I'm hoping to get some kit for my PC, I mean I've had a PC for years but never all the 'extras' that you find on store bought PCs (which nobody should do in there right mind)

Got any sugestions of a way around this?

-- DoctorMO --

Try shoplifting but wear something baggy to avoid the security guard asking if 'that's a piece of hardware in your trousers or are you just pleased to see me?'.

I hope you don't do that kind of thing, but it sounds like you have some experance.

-- DoctorMO --

Shoplifting is beneath me - I'm more of your gentleman cat burglar: I rob from society ladies and they adore it, and I leave a discreet and mysterious calling card attached to a 12 foot inflatable version of myself; when it starts to deflate people think they've been burgled by George Burns.

When the George Burns doll deflates, does the air smell like stale cigars?

Wasn't George Burns God? Or was he the Devil?
Hang on - he was both. Interesting choice of likeness LOL.

Oh, yer. these little after cartoon chats are always so much fun.

Whats your ideas for next week or are they going to be hush hush?

-- DoctorMO --

Hullo again, sorry for the absence: I've been away doing some very important drinking at a beer festival.

George Burns is an apt choice indeed Wowbagger; once the ritual bloodletting of the daily shave is over, groomed and coiffed a god emerges from the morning mist of my mirror, and a devilishly handsome one at that: taut olive skin covers my body... which means I'm green and either stoned or stuffed with anchovies most of the time.

And yes, Doctor MO, I too enjoy these little chats round my hearthside. Throw another cartoon onto the fire, dear chap, and I'll let you into a secret: I'm not sure yet what this week's cartoon will feature. I normally let the muse Sheer Desperation choose for me, but she doesn't seem to turn up until the last minute. I must away and clutch at my fevered brow now for several hours until, giggling maniacally, I give birth to a new scribble.

*chucks a Picaso onto the fire*

I hope this will do, It suposted to be art but I don't consder it even a good cartoon image let alone art,
enough on my tediums, so you maby thing of somthing, I was a bit.. er... shy from mentioning it before but...

And this is the big bit, you could scribble another wounderfull cartoon send it to me and let me colour and tweek ether that or Wowbagger but he's usualy buisy with his own.

-- DoctorMO --

Ah it's not every day, Doctor MO, that someone offers to tweak my scribbles; bless you for your kind offer. However, I either work in black and white - in which case no colour required, or watercolour - as I believe you once spotted - which has textures and effects all of its own. So nothing for the MO just now, if you'll excuse the pun.

But I thought you were going to develop some of your own cartoons; how goes the experiment? (And whatever you do, don't show it to Piccasso when you've finished.)

Oh there not that bad, it's just practice and practice and money to buy a scanner, or lern how to draw what a draw on the computer instead of the paper, writing is so much easyer on the computer as well..

-- DoctorMO --