Tag: Bearman cartoons

  • Bearman Living Statue

    Happy Halloween Everyone!! Be safe!

  • I am the 1% T-shirt

     

    It has been a while since I created a new shirt design for my shop.   This one screamed to be done.  The great thing is it works whether you are part of the Occupy Wall Street (or Elm Street) crowd AKA the 99% or if you are part of the 1% crowd.  See how democratic I am.  Appropriate for all political spectrums and income levels.

  • Create a Custom Jack-O-Lantern Pattern in Photoshop Express


    It has been a while since I have done a tutorial so in time for the season, here is the How-to create a custom Jack-o-Lantern pattern in Photoshop or Photoshop Express.  What could be scarier on your front porch than George Ford (of Addanac City fame) greeting all the kids in the neighborhood.  I swear I would pick on someone else sometime but the rest of you don’t post enough pictures on the web.

    Step 1

    – Open a new document (I made mine about 8inx8in), paste your picture in the document and resize it so there is some white background showing.

    – Using the brush tool, make a white border around the entire picture.  I used a 10pt brush.

    Step 2

    – Color the background layer black.

    Step 3

    – Select Image>Mode>Grayscale

    – You want to make sure the color is balanced.  My original pic was too bright so you can adjust by going to Enhance>Adjust Lighting>Brightness/Contrast in Photoshop Express or Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast in full Photoshop.

    Step 4

    – Select Filter>Adjustments>Posterize (Express) or Image>Adjustments>Posterize (Full).  Choose 3 levels and select and it will give you a Black, White and Gray Image.  If the outline that you did in Step 1 is full white, change it to 50% gray.  You should get above.   You will notice that it has bits of color all over the picture that you don’t want to have to carve so,

    – Using your pen too set to black, white or gray color in the image to remove some of the dithering and random color spots.

    Step 5

    As you can see in the above pic I cleaned up the image to make it into cutable chunks.   In the end you are going to want to shave off the skin of the gray area, cut the white area completely through, and leave the black area alone.  Look at your white area.  If there is danger of you cutting away detail of the gray you need to adjust your picture more.  As you can see in the final template in the first image of this post, I added more gray area around the nose so I wouldn’t cut my nose to spite my face..haha

    George was too scary to carve so instead I did Bearman.

    Here is what it looks like unlit.  It was my first time trying to use a dremel so I need to clean it up.

    As you can see, in this one I only posterized to 2 colors (black and white).  For the white, I pulled off the skin and the black I left alone.  I then put two full holes in the eyes.

    Here is the the final look when lit.

    And in case you want to make your own Bearman Pumpkin…here is the template.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Why Occupy Wall Street People are Rightfully Pissed

    Editorial Cartoon - Why Occupy Wall Street People are Pissed

    This editorial cartoon is for my Occupy Wall Street friends.  I am sure I will piss you off with a future cartoon but for now, I wanted to show my solidarity for one reason people should be rightfully pissed.  Companies talk about teamwork and performance, etc etc etc.  But damned if the executives can’t find a way (read excuse) to make sure their bonuses are intact while the rest of us have to do more with less.

    Of course this isn’t a blanket statement for all executives or companies.  So, any examples in your own companies where executives seem to get perks that are continually denied to the rest?

    Oh yeah, 3 panels and 9 people in this one.  You are welcome all you people who think I should spend 3 hours doing one cartoon.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Occupy Elm Street

    Editorial Cartoon Occupy Elm Street

    I was upset that I didn’t come up with the “Occupy Sesame Street” posts that are circulating on the internet.  But I think I am the first to call for the Occupy Elm Street protests

    Wasn’t sure if I liked the format of this as an editorial cartoon as above or a call to action poster as below with more subtlety to what they are protesting.  Which do you like better?

    Bearman Cartoons Occupy Elm Street Poster

  • Friggin Loon Caricature

    Kim Jong Il Friggin Loon Mashup Caricature

    So the final winner of my caricature contest was the Friggin Loon.  There is no one with a more hidden identity on the web than she.  But a few key details have sprang forth via her talkative friends (ahem Susi Spice)

    • She is obsessed with all things Kim Jong Il
    • She has wild crazy hair
    • She creates her own tear gas.  How about that for a WMD (Weapon of Mass Disgusting)

    So I think in reality the Friggin Loon IS Kim Jong Il’s female identity.  Who else would give themselves so much press.

    Enjoy the Mashup.

  • Editorial Cartoon: Palestine and the United Nations

    Editorial Cartoon China Palestine and the United Nations

    Today’s editorial cartoon stems from last week when Palestine went to the United Nations to seek full membership to the United Nations in a bid to seek recognition of the Palestinian state as defined prior to the 1967 borders (which includes East Jerusalem and a security zone Israel has not relinquished to the Palestinian Government in the past).  The surprise isn’t that Israel and the United States opposed the plan, the surprise is who publicly did.

    The Chinese Foreign minister is in full support of it.  Oh and so is Saudi Arabia.  Both are known as repressive governments and major human rights violators (see here and here) and yet they continue to join the voice of the United Nations in condemning Israel above all other countries.

    With their actual human-rights credentials off the table, Council members adopted a fixed agenda of only a few items to govern their proceedings. One item is devoted to Israel alone and one to all other 191 UN member states. The Human Rights Commission spent 40 years adopting country-specific criticisms, a third of which condemned Israel. Fifty percent of the “reformed” Council’s country-specific resolutions and decisions are devoted to Israel-bashing. There have been 12 special sessions in the last five years, and half of them have been on Israel alone. There has been only one “urgent debate” on a country — Israel. There have been more human rights reports commissioned on Israel than on any other state. And only one country is not allowed even to attend the lobbying and information-sharing regional meetings associated with the Council sessions — Israel — while “Palestine” is invited to all of them. (source)

     

    Interesting that Israel doesn’t make either of the lists.  Please don’t interpret that I don’t feel Israel holds some fault in their current situation but let’s also be clear.  There is no situation, resolution or otherwise where I see Israel ever giving up East Jerusalem strictly from a security standpoint.  So no matter what other concessions are given, there will likely never be full peace in that region but hopefully a situation where neighbors can leave each other alone.

     

     

  • Nurse Myra Caricature

    So the first caricature winner victim, is Nurse Myra from Gimcrack Hospital.   Myra is not a real nurse (so I think) and Gimcrack is not a real Hospital.  Instead Myra searches the web to find you incredible stories of medicine, murder and mischief.   Remember when I said NOT to have expectations too high with my caricatures.  I literally laughed out loud after sending the caricature to Myra and getting this response.

    Hey that’s pretty good! Not flattering but it’s a definite likeness.

    Myra, you want to talk not flattering…check out my first caricature of Brit.

  • How Hand Dryers SHOULD be Labeled

    Editorial Cartoon - How Hand Dryers Should be Labeled

    I am a firm believer in truth in advertising.  This is how public bathroom air hand dryers SHOULD be labeled.  I never get out of there without wiping my hands on my pants.

  • Rob Halford Dances with Gargoyle Cartoon

    Rob Halford Dances with Gargoyle Cartoon

    Another Sketch Challenge Cartoon.  This time we were supposed to pick a celebrity who was born on August 25 and have them dancing with a Gargoyle.  Don’t ask, I don’t come up with the ideas.  I picked Rob Halford of the Heavy Metal Band Judas Priest.  Of course how I titled this was completely innocent as I was making a play on the fact that Rob plays hard rock and is dancing with a hard rock (ie the gargoyle).  Then our friend MJ at the National Free Press had to turn it all around.  I’ll leave it to him to explain himself as I won’t have much internet access the next few days.