Tag: illustration

  • Alligator Arms Defined Cartoon

    Alligator Arms Defined Cartoon

    Alligator Arms Cartoon by Bearman CartoonsThe phrase “Alligator Arms” (or Dinosaur Arms) is one my friends and I have used for years to describe our other cheap friends.   Seems Urban Dictionary has the same idea.  Everyone know this person.  Either they fail to ever pick up the check when you go out or when it is their turn to buy a round of drinks, suddenly they are in the bathroom (or have already went home).   Worse was a coworker I once had who would look at the check and figure out exactly how much he owed to the penny and put in exactly 15% for the tip.   What he always failed to do was consider that his meal was taxed and the rest of us would always have to pick up his shortcomings.  I learned to ask for separate checks after a while.

    So any of you know some Alligator Arms?  Are you one?  Might do more of these cartoons so any suggestions (try to keep them clean) on other phrases you know or came across on Urban Dictionary?

     

  • Bearman Cartoon: Why I keep a Home Phone Line

    Bearman Cartoon Reason to Keep a Home Phone Line

    Hat tip to Colleen of Tix Comix who prompted my memory in my last post as to the main reason I keep my home phone line.   I lose my cell phone all the time in the house and am always using my home phone line to call it.  Sure I can use the locate function on iphones, but then I have to remember how to do it.  And what if I lost my cell phone during a power/internet outage?

    Oh and look, I used my own handwriting on this one.  Now you know why I tend to type text.

  • Guest Cartoon: Frank Hansen

    Bearman Guest Cartoon: Frank Hansen

    The interesting thing when I put out a call for guest cartoons is that there is always a surprise in my email inbox from someone I had not yet come across.  Frank Hansen is a cartoonist and illustrator.  He is preparing to launch his own comic in the near future but already has a vast collection of impressive illustrations on his site.

    I really love how he is so adept at shading with the pen that he can color an image in just a few colors and it adds some warmth to the illustration.  I might have to try that one day but I don’t have the patience he does for many little lines.  Astute readers will notice the game Little Bear is playing.

    Make sure to check out his work and his blog and give him lots of love here too.

    Next up on Thursday isAidan Casserly of Scapula.

    Missed a Guest Cartoon?  Here are the Links:

    MJ Cartoonist
    Roland Perez
    Tony McGurk
    Colleen Dick
    Ken Drab

  • Julian Beever – Pavement Drawings

    I have been joking about my lack of ability to draw in perspective. Well Julian Beever doesn’t have that problem. I is a reknowned 3D Street Artists. That’s right his canvas is the street yet his drawings seem to actually have height and depth. I am showing a few here but check out all of them at his site.

    batmanjulianbevers

     

    cokejulianbeever

    lobster2Julianbeever

    (ok the baby is real)

  • Posemaniacs: Great Source for Drawing Poses

    Some of us who were NOT art or illustrator majors in college (and it shows) have a hard time picturing certain body poses in our heads.  Never had a wood drawing dummy (well unless you consider some of my exes) I tend to spend alot of time making faces in the mirror (and not just because it is fun).

    Well the other day I found a great site called Posemaniacs.  They have several hundred different body poses that are created in flash allowing you a 360 degree view of the pose.  Here is an example of just one pose (tried to load their actual working widget but wouldn’t work)

    Posemaniac Figure Drawing
    Posemaniacs Figure Drawing

    Haven’t actually used it as a source for my stuff.  But you can bet when I do another crowd scene with people running in all different directions, I’ll be heading back over for some help. 

     

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