Frog Blog » work http://blog.patbarrett.com the Pat Barrett sketchblog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:12:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 His Nibs Here http://blog.patbarrett.com/2009/10/his-nibs-here/ http://blog.patbarrett.com/2009/10/his-nibs-here/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:04:24 +0000 Pat http://blog.patbarrett.com/?p=489 H’lo folks. Sorry I’ve been such a bad blogger. Here’s some cartoons with which I’ve been learning how to use a dip pen, and especially the mythical G nib. Forged by samurai metallurgists obsessed with manga, the G nib is the only pen designed specifically with cartooning in mind. I’m not sure that it can lure me away from my Rapidographs, though.

First, a one-panel gag. I made two others, but one is pretty dumb and the other has been deemed by some to be too much for the internet to handle.

Johnny Appleseed

Next, a dear diary dream comic. (Trying to work looser, more cartoony, faster, but not exactly getting great results yet.)

We'll Need to Rent a Boat

And finally some autobio-ish strips in the style of EC Segar (you can click em to see em).

ala Segar - 1

ala Segar - 2

I’ve got more stuff to show you, and I promise to throughout the week.

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OK! I’m crazy for The Wire! That’s Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) and Stringer Bell (Idris Elba), the drug lords. I just finished season three on DVD, and the Avon-Stringer thing was soooo Shakespearian! Intrigue! Double dealing! Family and blood brothers and war and power! Whoah.

I don’t know if you noticed, but I’m trying a fake silkscreen thing. Do you like it? Is it too subtle? I’ve often said that I think this kind of stuff is disingenuous, or just a trick, but seeing is believing, you know? I think it kinda works. I don’t know. Most of my jobs are tiny and printed on newsprint, so I don’t think they need any extra muddying. But maybe the times I get internet jobs, jobs on actual good paper and/or in actual sizes bigger than two inches, they could use a little futzing… In other words, this may well appear again some other time.

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These guys here are both Mets fans, so I guess we’re all kindred spirits. The one playing something on his PDA was on the 7 out to Shea Stadium, and the guy in the hat was on his way home from work ’round about midnight, just like me. How about that?

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