And done! Wasn't sure what to do with the background so I threw this together. It was either that or draw all the guys like they were pressed up against a plate-glass window, drooling. :)
I'll be putting this up on the Cast Page before too long, but I'm thinking of annotating it first, with each characters's name and possibly species.
Doc.<...
2017-12-09 07:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon has a couple of posts about the new fee structure, here and here.
It's worth a read, but to distill it down a but, basically Patreon is trying ...
2017-12-08 10:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostI have no idea. Patreon, oddly enough, made no mention about it to me or several other users I've spoken with. Even now I'm not exactly sure what it is they're trying to do, other than that it looks like they're trying to get a small percentage up front from the donor, as well as taking their slice at the end of the month as they've always done.
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2017-12-08 00:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally added in Miki, and made a lot of other small changes as well. Cara looks a bit less frumpy, the four main ladies got a bit more hip and thigh, I tweaked Sandy and Pirta's suits a little, added possibly a bit too much heft to Tawny's chest, and shrank Kasi's hands quite a bit.
Still need to rework Pirta's expression, and of course then col...
2017-12-01 11:17:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I hear Santa's been busy recently... He bring you anything? :)
Doc.
2017-11-26 21:33:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Just finished up this little bit of art, and figured I'd post it. It's for a small project I've been working on recently, which you all will see shortly. :)
Doc.
2017-11-21 04:24:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Cleaned up, inked, scanned and digitally remastered. Moved everybody a tad closer together, fixed little bits with the various poses (like Tawny's head) and started adding their various spots.
Not happy with Pirta's expression, or any of the five bigger girl's hips. Cara looks too frumpy, might have to see if I can make her look a little better w...
2017-11-14 10:30:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Another teaser for a bit of upcoming art, this time a sort of "model sheet" of all the TWB ladies, in swimsuits. :)
This one will likely get posted on the Cast Page when done, in case any of you artists out there want to have a better idea how their various color and spot patterns look.
Once that's done, I'll do one up for the guys too- at ...
2017-11-13 06:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post
A small sample of some upcoming artwork, an older piece I was tinkering around with this weekend along with some... other projects. :) (If you know what I'm talking about, keep it under your hat 'til I can make a proper full announcement. :) )
Doc.
2017-11-13 05:57:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Uncensored, as requested. Enjoy!
Doc.
2017-11-05 08:35:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry I haven't been able to work on this- or much else- recently, but as always, sometimes shopwork takes precedence. I have, at least, cleaned up the linework, at least most of it.
I took the "edited" copy, and enlarged it, did a little alteration (raised her head up a bit, as the neck was too short in the original, plus lengthened her torso, l...
2017-10-30 05:32:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Full designation: Turanga-Class Mark VI Semi-Autonomous Combat Drone
The Mark-Sixes are one of several experimental weapons systems that Doc and Roger are helping design and test for various branches of the US Government. They have no proper AI, but do carry some fairly sophisticated programming, and can network with each othe...
And Done! Compared to the 2005 original, I think it's a big improvement.
Doc.
2017-10-22 06:29:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Earlier I asked for some suggestions as to which bit of older art or comic strip I should redraw, and one such suggestion was this sketch.
Longtime readers might recall the 2009 April Fool's Gag, which made the site look like an open root directory, which included links to...
2017-10-21 10:17:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Got the gun redrawn and most of the color is done... and then I saved the original as a reduced JPG instead of the full-size TIF. (Slaps forehead.)
Not too big an issue, I still have Sandy as a full-size in color, and the B&W linework for the gun as separate files, so I only really "lost" the color on the gun.
Should be able to finish i...
2017-10-21 09:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Made a little progress, but still need to fix the gun. Doesn't look science-fictiony enough. :)
Doc.
2017-10-12 01:37:54 +0000 UTC View Post
A reader had an excellent suggestion for the next piece to be redrawn: What I'm pretty sure was the first "pin up" drawing I ever did, back in 2005, as part of one of the very earliest April Fool's gags.
I thought it was decent back in the day, but naturally...
2017-10-10 09:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost nine years ago, we had this strip, in which one of several things the reader was told they'd "never see in TWB" was Sandy and Pirta bikini-wrestling in a giant Boston Creme Pie. :)
As noted earlier, I haven't had much chance to do "art for art's sake"-...
2017-10-09 08:19:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Still occasionally working on the rework of the old "Wrestling in a Boston Creme Pie" image. So far the ladies are fully colored, I just need to add a suitable background and lighting.
Doc.
2017-10-07 04:46:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I received a complaint about Saturday's 'bonus' strip- shown above- and yeah, it might be just a touch to risque` to leave in the archives.
It'll be taken out of the system in the morning when the comic updates- strip 2452 will lead directly to 2453. But, it's still kind of artsy strip that I like how it came out (though I wanted it darker ...
2017-10-02 08:26:19 +0000 UTC View Post
While the last few weeks have been very busy for me, I do still take the (all too occasional) break so I don't go... well, any more lunatic than I already am. :)
I haven't had much time to art-for-art's-sake in a while, so the other day I dragged out the (relatively) high-rez copy of the famous "bikini-wrestling" scene from... oh, about a decade ...
2017-09-29 00:35:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week a friend of mine splurged and picked up a brand-new 27" Wacom Cintiq graphics tablet, and let me play around with it for a while. It came with a trial copy of Painter, and we were just getting into trying some sketches and brushes and whatnot.
While we were fooling around, I sketched up the above drawing- just the fox, none of the backg...
2017-09-21 22:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral people have contacted me concerning various options for a possible TWB search format, from thumbnailed strips to client-side apps. A couple seem pretty interesting, and deserve more scrutiny, but at the moment, I have a couple of very hot projects burning their way through the shop (thankfully not literally :) ) and I have pretty much zero ...
2017-09-13 08:55:48 +0000 UTC View PostI just whipped up a small sample of an idea I've been thinking of for a while, which is a way to do a sort of poor-man's searchable strip index.
It's just the first 100 strips so far, and I limited the keywords to the major characters and s...
2017-09-09 10:29:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Several loyal readers pointed out that, as nice as Cara looked in the previous image, she'd been shown canonically in the strip as a bit chunkier- and besides, being a polar bear, being supermodel-thin probably isn't a good idea. :)
I kind of hadn't even realized I'd done it that way- I suppose some part of my brain just read off the decision tre...
2017-09-05 01:50:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I had several requests for a larger-resolution crop from the first panel of Monday's strip, so here you go! I even added a little extra for ya.
Doc.
2017-09-03 07:53:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh, so THAT'S what those red beams were...!
Fair warning, I may skip a strip or two, so even you early-previewers will have something to look forward to when these go live on the main page. :)
Doc.
2017-09-01 10:38:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Suddenly, a wild robot appears!
The rest of this week will likely be very busy for me, so the next "Run" comic may not be 'til Friday or even next Monday. But stick around, the party's just getting started. :)
Doc.
2017-08-29 08:51:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Raccoons are apparently bouncier than we thought. :)
Doc.
2017-08-28 09:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post
How's that for an entrance? :)
We haven't seen him in a while... I wonder what he's been up to...
Doc.
2017-08-27 08:46:53 +0000 UTC View Post