New Buisness Cards and Stickers

It's been a while hasn't it. Blogger has made some big changes without me, and it certainly needs some work fixing up it's image inserting methods. Had some trouble figuring it out, and had to make edits in the HTML section before it got to look the way that I wanted to.
Well Good news either way. make up some new business cards AND sticky labels. I used a company called MOO.com and the quality and presentation is so unique. It's a bit to expensive for convenience but it makes your business cards look like real art pieces rather then just a piece of paper with your name on it.I used Moo to get their sample cards and buy some stickers, which are still available if you want to get some Eddie Eel stickers.

Here below you can see the new pieces of art I made for the back of the cards with new lineart for some of the older designs. The only NEW character is the cactus guy, who I would like to try and draw a whole new set of fun little cactus men like him. Sadly the monster contest with the Cyclops girl didn't turn out well, but people love her so much I put the design to good use. She's the only girl on the cards.


 
Also I was able to make some sticky labels, that I will sell for 1$ also if you're interested. The difference between the labels and the cards is that I have Ozzie instead of Demion and I have my logo and email on them.

So to finish up, letting you know that I won't be syncing my blog with my Google+ profile yet, but there's no real good way of hiding my different profiles any more.  My Google accounts are the more professional accounts, and I won't be doing the same things I do on my DeviantArt Account and my Tumblr account. It's just all original here, with some highlights of my fanart.

Also thank you to the people who have google image searched my stuff. Thank you for stopping by, I hope I have done something that interests you in hiring me. Don't be afraid to leave a comment with Questions.

Headless Rokko

I've been thinking about what it takes to really kill a cartoon. Most people still think that only Dip, the toxic substance from the 1990 Roger Rabbit movie, is the only thing that can kill them. But I believe that depending on the type of cartoon you are, the type of injuries you substance will effect you differently. These "powers" are given to the toon by their creator. Superman can only be killed by kyrptonite, so would he still dissolve when dumped in Dip? Pokemon and Digimon don't die, but could you splash some paint thinner on them and they'd disappear forever? Plus there are plenty of times where a character is put in mortal danger and while we might assume that somehow they'll make it out alive, we hold our breaths when the character is hanging from the cliff at the end of episode. A toon needs to have a level of mortality cause if they didn't, then why should we be worried about their safe return next week?

The fallowing story is a play on that idea as well a cartoons ability to remove it's head. Rokko is a character constantly struggling to deal with his mortality; when ever he wants to die, he can't. When ever he needs to stay alive, he's in jeopardy of dieing. Warning! the blog is quite violent, dark, and contains mature subject matter.
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Rokko is being chased by a bunch of human thugs. We're not told what he did or why but they shoot guns off each other and run into a warehouse. One guy tackles Rokko to the ground and they roll around until Rokko is on top of the man. Rokko pushes the man's head into the ground trying to crush it but hesitates cause he doesn't want to kill him. The man brings up his gun to Rokko's head but he grabs the man's arm just before he shoots. The bullet ricochets off the walls behind him, into the back of Rokko's skull and doesn't pass all the way through. Rokko blacks out and falls over. The other men catch up to where Rokko lays and kick him around a bit. One guy takes out a huge knife and slices a huge cut around Rokko's neck and pulls his head off. They take the head and shove it in the box and laugh about the fight. Suddenly, the body gets up and starts flailing it's arms around and hitting a few of the thugs like rockets through the walls. They freak out and run away leaving the body to fall and trip over it's self.

After a few hours, Rokko's body is left in the warehouse bleeding black ink all over the floor. Crikkit then scuttles up from the darkness and pushes Rokko around to see if he's still alive. The bug lifts the body up and it starts to move on it's own, punching the wind and falling over without balance. It stands up completely and then takes off running strait into the wall and falls over, spewing out stomach acid and more ink. Crikkit then grabs it's arm to take it back to Rokko's apartment. His pants fall off as the two of them run and along the way, the body fights Crikkit's pulling, thinking it's an enemy.

Back with the human thugs, they talk about how they should try to get more money for the head. If the man who paid for them to axe it off wanted it so bad, then it's possible that other people wanted it twice as bad. One man opens the box in the back of the car and the head has filled the box with ink and it spills onto the floor. They pull over to find a place to hose it off.

Crikkit finally gets Rokko back to the apartment where Rokko's two roommates are. They freak out over the headless body, not sure it's even worth keeping him around. Crikkit just starts to make a meal while they drill the bug about the people who did this to Rokko. Crikkit doesn't respond much other then to ask for salt, pepper and for a table to be set. The Coyote pokes the body a few times and it punches the wall next to it. He laughs, glad it missed. The Capybara thinks about a few times he saw other toons loose their head. It's different each time he's seen it and that the longest time he's seen a toon without it's head was 3 hours...but then notes that Rokko is not normal. The Coyote says that he's actually nicer without his head, they should leave him that way (as the body starts to shake the Coyote's hand and pat his head).

Crikkit tells them last he remembers was there was a man stalking Rokko earlier in the week. He remembers the face and draws it on the table in steak sauce. The man only confronted Rokko once telling him how interesting he was, asking about touching his skin and flashed a 100$ bill. Rokko said "fuck off" and kicked the car over. Both the Coyote and Capybara don't remember seeing a man like that on their own time, and they get up to start making calls to other toons about a man in a black car wanting to touch them. Crikkit starts to feed Rokko by shoving food down the open hole in his neck.
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The human thugs arrive at the house of the mysterious man. He looks surprisingly at the box, and they take it out showing him the head. He yells at the thugs saying that they should've brought the body with them. They yell back saying that he didn't mention a thing about the body and that he should've paid more cause the fight with this creature was not worth what they were promised. The mystery man tells them to go back to hunt down the body and they'll get twice what they were promised. They inform him about how the body still fought back but the man tells them to go back anyway. Two of the thugs head back to the warehouse while two stay with the head back at the mansion to make sure they still have head in their possession. Rokko's head moves and opens it's eyes slightly to see what's going on, but doesn't make a sound.
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By late that night the Capybara had found out about the mystery man's plan to pick up old cartoons to turn into hunting trophies. With no clear direction about where to find this man, Crikkit says they should let the body hunt down the head like a blood hound, it might know where it's head is. The body falls over and squirms like a caterpillar across the floor. Shaking their head with disbelief the Coyote and Capybara pick up the body and put it in the car.

For most of the night the thugs and the toons cross passes upset that neither can find the missing body part they're looking for. Rokko's body leads the toons into the oddest places like bike shops, gyms, pharmacies, and the sides of busy streets where it throws stuff at passing cars. When the thugs find out that the body is gone, they set the warehouse on fire in frustration, which catches the attention of the toons and they fallow the trail back to the toon hunter's house.
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In the house the hunter shows the two other thugs his collection. He doesn't hunt for sport or just to have something rare, but things that feel good. Often times he's shot something that he thought would feel nice but it turned out coarse and rough. When he met his 1st toon he shook it's hand and the feeling that came over him was cold but warming. Not that the toon wasn't warm-blooded but being around it was so uplifting. His last wife left him cause of his past hunting habbits, so he slowly has been getting rid of his real animal pelts and replacing them with toon pelts, that being around them would be more uplifting. No more depression.

All the while the hunter is talking Rokko's head is sniffing the air and moving it's lips. The eyes open and close at irregular intervals, and it opens it's mouth is slowly and clamps down hard on the air.

The man continues in saying that he stalked this toon (Rokko) a while back cause at a store they bumped into each other and the skin didn't feel like fur but he looked furry. If all other old cartoons felt this way he could start a new type of fur clothing line. Gilt free furs; the toons he took them from can't die and it wasn't real fur. The thugs look at the head on the table and pet it, and they mention how it feels like wet hair, being covered in ink.

The hunter looks in confusions and goes over the pick up the head. He too notices that it's hairy and starts to think they played a trick on him. They demand for the head back but he pulls out a gun on them and they drop theirs in a panic. He yells at them to get out, and once the other thugs bring back the body none of them will get a dime. The Thugs back into a corner swearing this is the real head but the hunter grabs it anyway saying that they brought a fake head without the body to fool him.
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Outside the thugs talk about going into the mansion guns a blazing and take what ever they can fine but are stopped at gun point by the Coyote. The thug who nearly had his head crushed by Rokko, runs out of the car screaming in terror (fearing that another toon would be just as strong) and runs right into Rokko's body who grabs onto the thugs head again and smashes it like a melon. The Thug in the driver's seat pushes the door open to knock over the Coyote, and shoots.

The Capybara takes cover back in their car with Rokko's body, while Crikkit rushes into the Thugs car and starts the engine. Crikkit steps on the gas making the Driver Thug fall out of the car while it takes off and falls to the side of the road. The Coyote and the thug have a wrestle match on the ground, he takes a sharp bite out of the thugs arm and the thug shoots the coyote through the nose. The Capybara lets Rokko's body go, telling him to kick the soccer ball, and he rushes over to the Thug who's about to shoot again. Rokko's leg rears back and kicks the thug's head clean off so it lands through the window of the hunter's house right next to his feet.

All of the people inside stare at the new head on the floor in fear. The hunter looks up and grins and shoots the two thugs anyway. He looks out the window to see the toons coming up through the front door. He's happy to see he's got three new pelts, and mentions how he might be making some human leather hand bags as well (yeah he's a sick fuck, sorry). With Rokko's head under his arms he goes to his hunting closet where he picks out a shot gun and loads it. Crikkit is the 1st one to enter the room but stays hidden watching the man load the gun. He notices Rokko's eyes are open looking around like wild spirals but the hunter does not.

With the head still under his arm the hunter sets up to shoot anything that's going to come in. Trying to stay hidden, Crikkit waves to Rokko to get his attention but he can hear the foot steps of the toons coming up the stares. Ready and waiting the hunter grins big but the head drops to the floor. He sees Crikkit pulling at the nose but the hunter steps on Rokko's ear with his foot. The head starts to chomp up and down (soundless except for gashing) and Crikkit freaks out and runs away. The hunter picks up the head by the ear but the head finds a way to grab onto his arm and chomp it off.

The Toons stopped at the mid way point up the stares when they hear the hunter screaming. The head then slithers out of the door and down the stares not aware it passed it's body. The Coyote grabs for it and picks it up. It starts gashing at the air again. He shakes it like a piggy bank and the bullet that was stuck in his head falls out of the mouth. The Capybara stops the Coyote from putting the head and the body back together saying that Rokko might be even angrier if he had his head on strait. This allows the Capybara to go up and do clean up work on all the humans. The two thugs that were shot by the hunter weren't injured bad but they tell the Capybara that they'll deal with the Hunter in a legal way ("No more of this mobster shit for me. I thought it'd be hookers and free cocaine.")
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Back at the home stead, Rokko sits on the sofa with his head back on wrapped in bandages. He laughs and thanks the other guys for helping him out and tells the story about how his middle child could do the most amazing things with his detached head. He isn't sure if it's a family trait but that boy didn't need his head to get things done.
Rokko thinks about the men his body killed without his conscious mind to hold his self back. Figures he's got a pretty good head on his shoulders after all.

How Rokko Met Crikkit

Ok so here is an odd treat that I stumbled across when I was looking for a blank set paper to draw on. I knew where this was so it wasn't like it was lost but I had no idea just how far I got into this idea in this book. Far enough to tell a nice little story. This book I got back in 2007 ( I'm guessing) that was made to hold a collection of Rokko and Crikkit comics that I would scan and fix up on the computer so it would look and read right. I was going for an old 1910s comic look where there wasn't a lot of perspective and I would fix up the details later.
There were a few blank pages in between this one and the next. I wanted to do a bit where Rokko was turning off and on the light and Crikkit could only been seen when it was dark (with his white face). Sadly the 1st time I tried scanning this book that page ripped so I had to take it out. It was a filler gag story done a bunch of times, and for the context of the story it's not missed. So this seems a little dialog heavy. Rokko here is defending Crikkit by saying he's not a roach but a cricket bug, being good luck. Crikkit isn't amused by this, so Rokko says something like, "Well if you're not a cricket bug I guess we just gotta squish ya, don't we?" So Crikkit starts a song and dance, being loud and obnoxious.
So if you didn't like filling in your own words I'll sum up what Rokko's plan was here. Steal a rich woman's dog's collar and give it back to her hoping to get a reward. This was also a test of Crikkit's usefulness, now that Rokko saved his life Crikkit owed Rokko for the act of kindness. (this plan must've worked more then once for Rokko to try it out)
I love the expressions of Rokko's extreme happiness and Crikkit's deep confusion. That isn't a pig lady, she's just really ugly.So Crikkit is upset that he gets a bum reward out getting mauled to death, and he fights with Rokko. Rokko tries to explain what the deal was, but Crikkit just fights like a spoiled angry child. Rokko tosses him back over the fence.
Now there was a blank page in between this and then next page but I can't for the life of me figure out what I wanted to tell on it. All I can say is that Rokko wanted to get enough money to make happy hour. Even with the scheme of getting the reward from the rich lady, he still didn't have enough money for a drink ( This is before prohibition), but he sees a way he can make more money.Ah yeah that's the end and that last comic is cut short. There were two more panels where Crikkit would be at the table ready to bet with them and the last would be him walking away with all their cloths.
Rokko has a system of being really lucky, but when other people cheat he can't win unless he cheats. It's because of Crikkit having the best poker face ever (noone can read his antenna twitches like Rokko can) Rokko decides to keep the bug around to help him win at bets and get him out of scraps. They also get tossed up in situations where one owes the other something and they have to stick together until the debt is paid.

Hope you enjoyed this old comic, it was kinda a treat to look back on it. Only thing I don't like is how stale the poses and expressions are, but they're still pretty good.

Art and Doodles from the Vaction

Here ya go I got a few pics for you here...but my ideas are lacking. Still enjoy these sketches










So the stuff Eddie and Jen are talking about were my feelings to one of the guys that was bunking with the girls. He didn't want to sleep in the same room as a girl even though there were two beds in one room. He was even shy about using the same bathroom, but hell I didn't care. Just read what they say...their opinions express what I feel about it.
Often times I was so tired I didn't feel up for drawing much out there. Wasn't until I started having dreams and get tired of playing my video game did I feel like working on some pics.

So here is a story idea I had when I was using said bathroom there. There was a fishing gear catalogue in the bathroom with some pretty neat stuff in it. Made me think that this is how Eddie gets all his knowledge about fishing gear and techniques humans use. These books and catalogues would fall from the fishermen boats and Ed has to keep them in protective cases in air bubbles to make sure they don't fall apart in the water. He can't really read human writing but he he still tires to understand what humans are doing to capture fish better and faster...as well as beer caps and Old Men Rule t-shirts.


















Often times out there I felt like I'm Ed. Wandering around looking at things calling them cute. I put on my gayish music and start dancing in stores and swivel hips to what I'm listening to. If I was a 6 foot 5 scrawny blue haired white gay boy, I'd defiantly be able to do this show...but then I don't think I'd be as liked...

Plus here are some alternate outfits for shark with a Biker/Punk Theme. Eddie's biker outfit is actually not as dark as his pals, seeing how as he rides down the road his rainbow scarf trails 5 yards behind him. Plus Jen has no idea where he could get Pink Leather outside of San Francisco.



So here is a sketch page of Rokko. About on the 8th day I had dreams about Yakko being a father, and it made me feel nostalgic for my Character Rokko. A few of these I want to finish but here you can see some sketches...there is something different about Rokko, but it's not a big deal. I am a little troubled with Rokko because I don't want him assosianted to much with the Warners. I'd rather he look like an Old School Two Tone, then a 90's rip off of the same thing. Tell me what you think about it.

Working on Buisness Cards

So I found a website called Moo.com, and they have some neat deals on some really nice business cards and mini cards. I'll explain more later but here are some drawings that I want to include on them.

Rokko in the Bugs WIP

Updated Finally. Starting to add color. Feels like it needs more black and dark. PLEASE tell me what you think so far.

More Back up Characters.

Sigh, been a while with a new post, but everytime I've wanted to post something new I've been at someone elses computer, where I wasn't able to upload new images. I'm gonna talk about as many cahracters as I see important on these pages.

ON this page you can see the 1st drawings of my Batman and his boy XD. I just noticed I gave him a pocket protector which I didn't draw on any of the other drawings. The big robot is one failed attempt to create a body design for Rokko's Mob boss that I've been talking about. I turned it into a robot because I wanted a robot detecitve, or something. The idea of having a robot as a friend/ally for Rokko was a neat idea but I didn't want one as tall as him, so I made the little one at top. I'm still not sure if I like that design.
I love Joe's Apartment, so I started just doodling some roach designs, that would be equils to Crikkit's friends and random background roaches. The human on this page was another attempt at drawing the mob boss (I swear I tried to draw this villan many times before I came up with something I like and I still don't think it's the best design...you'll see it later). I was looking for a the scaryness of Micheal Corleone, seeing how he started wanting to be out of the 'family business' but soon became scary and dangerous. Now I'm thinking that guy would make an interesting human Crikkit.

Here's some characters that we've mostly seen already. Here is the pencil version of that group drinking picture that I finished a couple of days ago. You can see how the lineart gets cleaned up. The top picture of Rokko and the Rabbit is an intersting one but I love the expressions and senerio. Rokko is aware that he is an old cartoon and his creator has died. Old cartoons tend to get in a rut and forget why they do the things they do because they don't have anybody reinventing thierpersonalities and meaning. Normally Rokko and Rabbit would be at each other throats Kill Bill style, but that's not always the caise. One night Rokko explains this phenomion to Ginger and says that the other night while picking up tampons and a pregnacy tester at 1 AM he ran into him picking up some condoms himself (coming from a party with girls in his car). While the hatred was still there, the effort was not. It was out of context, like if they broke out into fists of furry then, what was the point, nobody was watching. It's an odd feeling to be a cartoon, because you never know what's being filmed and what's just a normal, butt scratching type of day.

Rokko is also swipping Gilbur's penis hat. I still havn't drawn the expression he has when Rokko calls it that but I just don't draw the character enough.

Now Rokko's life during the 50's-90s (while he was away from Ginger) was another one of those just living moments. It was the most depressing time of his life but to him he was equally sharing the pain that his creator was having while he was locked away in a mental asylem (Lon Borax was his creator, for those of you who didn't know). Rokko learned during that time that he couldn't die. Every method used to try to kill himself just failed and he soon just wanted to go away. He did remarry a couple of times but non of those women were right for him. The dog lady (not the flapper girl) was one of those women, but he didn't want to marry her, she just said you're my husban now and that was it. FaFa was a minor background character in a MGM cartoon, just as a young puppy back then, but then her design was moved to advertise Dog Food for a small chain and her work consisted of quick commercial shots and packaging labels. Because of that small money though she was able to become a rich lady who bought husbans for her amusement. Rokko was her husban in californina, who he shared a house with another one of her husbands who couldn't speak english. Rokko himself didn't care enough to object to her paligamist fantasies, but he never got sexual with her because of his feelings for Ginger. FaFa didn't care weather he really liked her or not, but the idea of having a sexy arm candy like him was enough, and she felt sorry for his story. She only divroced him because her official husban was starting to find out about these other men she collected. She gave tearful kisses good bye and said he could come back to her when ever he needed.

Other characters on this page include the flapper girl, who is one of Rokko's 1910 friends who I drew an older version for. I'm still working on her personality but she never really had a big thing for Rokko, just a friend. She does fall in love with the human character I have as one of Rokko's friends. The guy in the white suit at the bottom is another character Rokko met during the 70's. He's like a chipmunk reject, because he's kinda like Alvin and the Chipmunks semi human character designs, but not human or animal enough. He's codeanmed QueBall because he's got an 8 ball for an eye and his eye was pushed to the back of his head. The other eye he went blind in but he can see perfectly out the eye in the back of his head. He's got massive kung-fu skills a great underground resorce for Rokko. A couple of the characters on this page are jsut background characters. The cops are still work in progress but they are old versions of two cops that were constanly after Rokko.

That's it for now. Any other questions?

The Long Haul

Hay there, I'm only sure one person reads this, but seeing how I do put a link to in in my DA account I figure somebody has to click on it everynow and then.

For those of you who don't know my computer is pretty stupid. The amount of artwork I can acaully finish is just traditional artwork I scanned and edit the grays and work with one layer. This computer has gotten slower with every little jepeg I add to it but I still push along until I can use my own computer. Some day I'll get a paypwal account and mass buy all the things I need to set my computer up nice.

Anyway, insted of working on that Transcreation article, which I do want to get back into again, I'll show you some of the work I did have started. I have more after a while so come back and check in.