Percival Throckmorton Soppwilt III

Another quick little illustration (about an hour and a half). I tried to think of the puniest, most feeble name possible for him (I apologize in advance to anyone who may actually have this name).

I added the brown scratchy background on a layer behind him, then added some dirt and aging on a layer above, to give it an old timey daguerreotype look.

Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.



Here's the original sketch of Percy. Other than making the top of his hat a bit rounder and adding a cowlick, the final didn't change much from the sketch.

Zapp Boltington

That's one angry pickle!

I set out to draw a lumpy little monster, but when I finished him I thought he looked more like a pickle. That seems weirder and funnier to me, so pickle it is!

This was a pretty quick little illustration; around an hour and a half or so. I'm not totally happy with the white lightning bolt or the glow. I need to revisit this and redo the bolt one of these days.

Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.



Here's the original sketch for Zapp. The final drawing didn't change much.

Computer Art From The Stone Age

I found these images of some of the first computer art I ever did, and thought they were worth a look. Or more likely a laugh.

I bought my first computer circa 1988. It was an Amiga 500. I remember the big selling point of this model was that it was capable of displaying a whopping 4096 colors (!). I hear you chuckling, but at the time that really was the most advanced display available. All other home computers of that era were only capable of displaying 256 colors.

The actual computer was built into the keyboard unit (with an internal floppy drive), and it came with a monitor and external floppy drive. There was no internal hard drive. They were available or course, but back then they were prohibitively expensive (for me, anyway), costing hundreds of dollars. It didn't come with a printer or a scanner either. Those were also extremely expensive items back then, far out of my reach.

Since I didn't have a hard drive, that meant that each time I wanted to use the computer I had to load the operating system into RAM. Amazingly, the entire operating system fit on one floppy disk (!). Let's just pause a moment and let that concept sink in, shall we?

Anyway, I bought the thing in order to start producing computer generated art. The system I bought came with a couple of graphic programs. One was called Deluxe Paint (I think, it's been a long time), and took advantage of the Amiga's 4096 color palette. There was another one called DigiPaint or something, that only let you use 256 colors, but they could be 256 of your own choosing.

Looking back, it's amazing I was able to draw anything on this system at all. As I said, scanners were the price of a used car back then, so if I wanted to draw an image from a sketch (something I do all the time now), I had to resort to several alternate methods. Sometimes I would draw a sketch on a piece of clear acetate, then tape it to the monitor and draw "under" it as it were. It worked about as well as you'd think. The other method was to use a water-based marker and sketch directly on the monitor screen (!), and again, draw under that image. My least favorite method was to just use the mouse and draw, erase and draw until the image on the screen was a reasonable facsimile of my sketch.

Because printers also cost more than the average house payment back then, I had no way to print out a hard copy of my art. Even if I could have afforded one, home printers of that era were all the horrible dot matrix kind-- you know, the noisy ones that printed one horizontal line of the image at a time and produced pale, washed out colors in terrible resolution. So, resourceful lad that I was I worked around my lack of a printer by taking a photo of the screen with a film camera (digital cameras were 20 years in the future) and having the film developed. Yeah, I know.

I remember producing a fair amount of art on the Amiga, and I remember that even the simplest of images took hours, sometimes days to produce. I didn't have a graphic tablet back then either, and as far as I know they didn't even exist. They were far in the future, like DVDs and personal jet packs.

Anyway, I found some of the photos I took of my (ahem) artwork from those dark days. Sorry about the quality, but remember these are scans of photos shot from a computer monitor!

Here we've got a cat posing in a "Tom & Jerry" type of cartoony background. The bizarre angles and perspective on the floor and cabinets were intentional. Really, they were.

One of the amazingly advanced features of this early graphic software was the ability to create your own patterns or textures, something I went way overboard with here. Note that the dog has the cliched "window pane highlight" on his nose, even though he's outside. I guess there must have been a floating window frame between him and the sun.

Wow. Obviously this was some sort of Max Headroom ripoff, er, I mean homage (ask your parents about him, kids!). Don't judge me too harshly, it was the 1980s after all. It looks like I was using that pattern generator here until it squealed "uncle."

I have no idea what's going on here. Some sort of cosmic doorman or egg-headed general, I suppose.

One thing that jumps out at me looking at these images is the extremely low resolution. You can see individual pixels from 3 feet away. These must have been about 36 dpi!

This one was drawn with the more advanced program that could utilize the 4096 colors. I can tell because of the relatively subtle shading. The only downside to using this program is that the shaded art tended to look a bit blurry on the screen. So you had two choices back then: 256 colors and a sharp image, or 4096 and a blurry one. Yes, it was a golden age.

This was a recreation (as best I could manage) of a colored pencil drawing I did. It was a character I used to doodle a lot back in the 1980s. It was my idea for a comic book, back in the days when it seemed like comics would be around forever. It was about a Rambo-esque space soldier who gets turned into a teddy bear. He was still a brutal killer, and was always furious that no one took him seriously because he looked so cuddly. I can't remember the main character's name; it's been too many years.

Although that looks like Iron Man just above the bear's head, it's supposed to be some sort of alien wizard. If I remember right (I haven't looked at or thought about this stuff for years) he's the one who cast the spell that turned the Soldier into a teddy bear. Maybe I should try and resurrect this image and redraw it.

Nice shading on the gun, I guess.

More of the blurry 4096 color program. That's a lovely font there too!

As crude as it is, I have to say I'm impressed that it almost looks like a three dimensional rendered object. I just got lucky that day.

God help me, I don't know. I guess this was supposed to be like a sci-fi novel cover? Who knows, it's been twenty years.

If you can stand to look closely, you'll see the faint features of a face there behind his glasses. Deluxe Paint had the amazing ability to utilize transparency, which back then was technology rivaled only by time travel. So I think I was trying to figure out a use for the transparency function and create some sort of semi-invisible soldier... person.

I like his gun though, if I do say so myself.

You know, if you take the basic shape and look of a Smurf and change its color, you'll have a completely new and different character!

In my defense I think I was copying the Smurfs on purpose, trying to create some sort of evil anti-Smurf. That's what I'm telling the judge, anyway.

Drawn in the blurry program again.

This was a recreation, sort of, of the first issue of Frank Miller's "Wolverine" miniseries he did for Marvel back in the 1980s.

I had a crude Amiga animation program, so the plan was to create a short animation of Wolverine's claws popping out, and his left index finger beckoning in a "Bring it on!" gesture (note he's missing said finger on his left hand). This project was scrapped when I discovered that making ten or so frames of animation was far beyond the meager amount of memory my Amiga had (I think it had maybe one meg of internal memory). Oh well.

Dear Cartoon Network: These Are Not Cartoons

I was lying bleary-eyed on the couch early this morning, watching the excellent "Batman: Brave And The Bold" show (check it out!) on Cartoon Network. Interspersed throughout the show were numerous commercials for Cartoon Network's new line of "CN Real" live action shows. That's right, I said live action.

Um... hey CN, last time I checked, a live show is not a cartoon. Just sayin' is all.

CN Real is a block of four shows, including:

· The Othersiders, which appears to be a tween version of SciFi Channel's "Ghost Hunters."

· Brainrush, which looks to be some sort of "extreme" sports thing, I think.

· Destroy, Build, Destroy, which is similar to "Robot Wars" from a few years back.

· Survive This, which obviously is "Survivor" for tweens.

There's no doubt in my mind that these four shows are being produced as a cost cutting measure. Cartoons are expensive to produce, even when they use cheap Korean labor. The fact that all four of these new shows are some form of reality TV is all the evidence you need that it's a case of simple economics. There's a reason the majority of shows these days are reality TV: It's a lot cheaper to produce shows of people singing karoke, dancing, remodeling houses or pretending to hear ghosts than to produce scripted dramas starring professional actors.

I shouldn't be surprised by this; it's been going on for years. Plus, Cartoon Network is made for kids and I should be doing better things with my time than watching it anyway. It just bugs me because it's yet another example of the Homogenization of TV Networks.

There was a time when you tuned in to SciFi Channel and you would see an actual sci-fi program, not wrestling. TV Land used to broadcast classic TV shows, not reality TV and heavily edited 1980s movies as they do now. Sometime in the past few years the TV execs started noticing that their niche networks didn't generate the ratings that a mainstream network gets, so they began moving from specialized to catchall programming.

So today the name of a network means little or nothing. They might as well stop calling themselves Cartoon Network and Comedy Central and label themselves "Indistiguishable TV Network #427" and "Indistiguishable TV Network #583."

Just one more reason to cancel cable and have more time for illustrating!

Office Shark

Did they ever really put water coolers in offices? In all the places I've worked, I can't remember ever seeing a single one. I suppose they must have had them somewhere or it wouldn't have become such a cliche.

Maybe water coolers are one of those things that only appear in comics, like bags of money with a dollar sign on them or a burglar wearing a pork pie hat and domino mask.

For some reason I like drawing uptight, humorless cartoony bosses.

Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.

Here's the original sketch. If you look closely, you'll notice the line work on the shark looks much different than the boss and the water cooler. That's because the original sketchbook doodle consisted of the shark only. After I scanned him in and started drawing him, I felt like there needed to be something more. I thought about it for a minute and got the idea to show him next to the water cooler with an angry boss looking on. So the boss and the cooler were sketched out onscreen, rather than on paper.

I'm A Grown Man And I Bought This: Mezco Underdog Figures

A couple of weeks ago I was browsing in a used book/comic/DVD and came across a set of these cool Underdog action figures (well, almost the whole set).

I picked up three of the four figures in the set; Underdog, Simon Barsinister and Riff Raff. The only one I didn't get was Sweet Polly Purebread. That's not surprising, because she's a dumb old girl, and kids don't like girl figures. Sadly, I'm not making that up; every toy company in America is apparently run by secretary-chasing middle aged men who truly believe that old trope, so on the rare occasion they deign to make a female figure at all, they usually pack it one per case, making it virtually impossible to find.

These figures actually came out a couple of years ago, and I remember seeing them but passing because of their outrageous price tag of $15 each. The ones I found were on sale for half price, so I decided to take the plunge.

If you're not an action figure collector of if you don't have kids, then you're probably unaware of the recent ridiculous price gouging phenomenon currently going on in the action figure world. When I first started collecting in the early 1990s, figures like these in the Underdog series were a reasonable $5 each. Now the average figure is $12 to $13, and some are even going for $18 or $19 a pop! It's put a definite crimp in my collecting habit (which probably isn't a bad thing). I can't justify that kind of expenditure on a toy anymore, especially in this time of economic hardship and woe. It makes me wonder-- I'm an adult with a full time job and I can't afford to buy action figures anymore. So how do the toy companies expect a kid to buy them?

There are several theories as to what's causing this rise in price. Since plastic is made from petroleum, some have suggested the price increase is tied to the ever-rising cost of crude oil. Others think it's due to Chinese workers (where most of the toys are manufactured) finally standing up and demanding a living wage. Some think that since kids have so many other distractions these days, they're not into action figures any more and the toy companies are manufacturing smaller runs, which drives up the cost per unit. Whatever the reason, they're in real danger of pricing themselves out of business.

Anyway, enough of that. On with the review. Underdog wasn't my favorite cartoon, but I remember liking it well enough and watching it when I was a kid (back in prehistoric times when we had TWO TV channels, three when the weather conditions were right). These figures are very well sculpted and excellent representations of the characters. It's often difficult to translate a simple 2D character drawing into a 3 dimensional figure, but Mezco has done an excellent job here.

Each figure comes with a variety of accessories, including extra hands in various poses. The paint jobs are very well done too; which is often not the case with mass produced figures.

Best of all the figures have no trouble standing. You have no idea how many figures I have that can't stand up by themselves for more than a couple of minutes. It's really frustrating to have to have to pick them up off the floor every morning and stack them back on the shelves. In fact recently I've taking to using poster putty to stick my figures to the shelves. When I first saw those skinny little legs on the Simon Barsinister figure, I expected him to topple over immediately. I mean look at how top heavy he is; it doesn't look like there's any way he, or any of the figures for that matter, could possibly stand. But to my great surprise, all the figures are extremely stable and have no trouble standing.

That's the way it ought to be! I don't think it's too much to ask for an action figure to be able to stand upright under its own power for more than a few seconds. In fact I think it should be a law. I urge you to write your Congressman and demand it.






Underdog comes with two extra posed arms, and an extra set of lower legs in "flight pose."





Simon Barsinister comes with extra hands (one of which is holding some kind of electronic doohickey) and a poster that says "Simon for Dictator).





Riff Raff comes with extra hands (one of which is holding a blackjack!) and a pile of loot. I love that he comes with a revolver and a cigar. You don't see a lot of toys with smoking accessories these days.



Here's the family portrait. The scale of Underdog and Simon seems about right; I'm pretty sure Simon is supposed to be shorter. Riff Raff is a lot larger than the other two though. I honestly don't know if this is just a mistake, or if he's really supposed to be that big. It's been too many years since I've seen it. It's not a deal breaker though.

Overall I'm very impressed with these figures and like them a lot (Now I need to start looking for the Polly figure to complete the set). At their original price of $15 a pop I couldn't recommend them, but if you ever see them on clearance, they're definitely worth picking up.

GRAWK!

A few days ago this image popped into my head out of nowhere; a big dumb looking green monster that stands in your backyard and just yells "GRAWK!" all day & night. It's not dangerous and doesn't tear anything up, it just stands there and screams at your house.

You can throw all the shoes at it that you want, but that won't chase it away for long. Before you know it, it'll be back outside your window screaming at you again.

It's one of those things you don't tell a potential home buyer-- that the garage leaks, that the house was built on an Indian burial ground or that there's a Grawk in the back yard.



Here's the sketch for GRAWK! Not a lot changed in the final. I think I maybe made his jaw jut out a bit farther in the finished piece.

Hooples Truck

I saw this truck parked in front of the grocery store near my house.

I'm a little puzzled by it. The "O's" in "Hoople" are obviously meant to look like bratwursts, which is substantiated by the floating pig carrying the banner. But what's up with the "Fresh Salads" tag?

Has all the concern about obesity in America forced the Hoople people to change their focus from delicious, filling sausage products to salads? Or have they started distributing salads in addition to meat? I'm confused.

Maybe I'm just not thinking outside the box. Maybe they're not green salads at all. Maybe they're some kind of new artery-clogging meat salad, made from pork and pork by products. Given what passes for haute cuisine around here, that seems about right.

Now if only we could figure out the names of the punks who knocked over the R.R. 1 mailbox!

Update: I just realized that this is another example of cannibalistic pigs in advertising. He's on the side of the truck there floating off the ground while gaily waving a banner the color of blood, boldly emblazoned with images of processed meat culled from the flesh of his brethren.

If you look around you'll find that almost every company that sells pork products has a logo like this, featuring an anthropomorphic pig, which is usually holding a dish of pork products in a ghastly display of cannibalistic excess.

I hope whatever they paid you was worth it, Mr. Hoople's Pig. How do you sleep at night?

Manny McGriperton

I have seen my future, and it's not pretty.

Seriously, I have no doubt that this is going to be me in another 30 years. Fortunately I probably won't know what's going on by that time, so I won't mind. Hey, can I bring a room down or what!

A pretty quick little illustration (about an hour & a half), drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.



As often happens, after I finished the drawing I couldn't decide what to do about colors. I am terrible at picking colors and color schemes. I would be perfectly happy drawing everything in grayscale. But I want to grow as an artist, so I'm forcing myself to become more comfortable with the world of color. This monotone color palette was the runner up. I'll let the viewer decide which is better.



Here's the sketch for Manny. Normally I sketch things out on paper and scan them into Photoshop. This time I tried something new and skipped the paper, and sketched him right on the screen with a Photoshop brush. The finished piece is pretty much the same, other than a couple of proportion corrections.

I'm A Grown Man And I Bought This: War Of The Worlds Martian War Machine

I first saw the 1953 version of "War of the Worlds" on TV when I was a kid (and not in the 1950s!). I was probably around 8 years old. It made a HUGE impression on me. Those Martian War Machines were the coolest things I'd ever seen in my life. And the scariest! There's something really alien about that manta ray shape and that cobra head, and that sound it made when it fired its heat ray! It still gives me chills to this day. I probably wouldn't be as much into sci-fi, horror and comics as I am if not for that movie.

So ever since I first saw the movie I've been wanting a toy or model version of the War Machine. It took over 40 years, but the wait is finally over! Pegasus Hobby just released a 1/48 scale Martian War Machine model kit and an identical pre-painted and assembled version. All I can say is it's about freakin' time!

I have no idea why it took over 40 years to get a plastic representation of one of the most memorable spaceships in movie history (Actually there have been a number of unofficial "garage kits" made over the years, but they were all prohibitively expensive-- think three figures. Way out of my price range). If I had to guess I would say the hold up was due to some sort of rights issue. That's generally the case in instances like this.

This is a photo of the pre-painted version, obviously. The sculpting is top notch. The parts all fit together pretty seamlessly for a mass-produced toy. For the past 40 years the only place I've ever seen the ship is in the movie, where it's pretty much only shown head on. So it's kind of weird to be able to see it from other angles, especially from above. It always seemed very slim and flat from the front. From above it's surprisingly bulky, and not quite the shape I expected. It's still a cool design though, that was way ahead of its time.



As happy as I am to finally have a toy of the War Machine, I have a couple of complaints (you would expect no less from me). First, it would be nice if the cobra head and the green translucent parts lit up, but that's not a deal breaker.

My main complaint is the mirrored bronze finish on the main body. I've seen the movie fifty times and the ships were a dull metallic bronze. They weren't reflective. If the movie model had a mirrored finish it would have reflected the studio ceiling, stage lights and anything else in the room. So I'm not really sure why they went the mirrored route here. Plus the reflective finish is very fragile-- mine came out of the box already scratched by those cursed twist ties that lash every toy I buy to its packaging. The finish also shows fingerprints like nobody's business as well. I'm thinking about repainting it a dull metallic bronze like it was in the movie.

Those are minor quibbles though. I'm just happy to finally have a War Machine. If you're interested in buying one, don't bother looking in any brick and mortar store. I bought mine at a model/toy show. The internet is probably your only hope of acquiring one. Just keep it away from Earthly germs & microbes!

Now if someone would just release an affordable Nautilus sub from Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea," my life would be complete!

By the way, I know that these photos are awful. I really need to buy some sort of backdrop and learn to use a camera. Don't judge me!

Sweet Ride

I don't have a lot to say about this car, other than I see it parked downtown where I work almost every day, and I think it looks pretty cool. The interior is just as tricked out as the exterior-- the upholstery is even the same metallic orange color!

Illegal Alien

It's an illegal alien making a run for the border!

If you look through my blog you'll notice that most of the characters in my illustrations tend to be standing in static poses, like they're waiting on a bus or in a police lineup. So I thought it was time to shake things up a little and try some new poses.

Some behind the scenes info: I know it doesn't look like it, but I struggled mightily with the background on this one. The drawing was simple and didn't take any time at all, but that background... The trouble was that I had a half-baked idea in my head to have swatches of color trailing behind the alien (sort of like speed lines), but try as I might I just could not get it to work onscreen.

Here's what I'm talking about. As you can see, it's just not working. Sometimes you can have a picture in your head that's just not possible to get onto the page. This is one of those times. I finally gave up the original plan and went with a standard painterly color patch background.

Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.

Here's the original sketch of the alien with those cursed speed lines.

I'm A Grown Man And I Bought This: Little Terminator Bobblehead

I have a confession to make: I'm a grown man and I collect action figures. There. I said it. It feels good to finally say it out loud.

Note that I said I collect action figures. I don't play with them. That's for later on when I have to start wearing diapers again. I started collecting them as an adult around 1995. I'm not exactly sure why. It might have been because the big Action Figure Renaissance began around that time, and I decided to get in on the ground floor. Or maybe I'm just a giant dork. I even turned one of the spare bedrooms in my house into a toy room full of shelves where all my action figures are on display. By keeping them confined into one room like that, it helps make it look like a grown up lives in my house.

Anyway, with the recent release of the new "Terminator: Salvation" there's a ton of Terminator merchandise out there right now. As with everything in life, some of it is good, some of it is "meh," and most is not worth your time or recession-stretched dollars.

I found this little Terminator bobblehead a couple of weeks ago at Target. Normally I'm not much of a fan of bobbleheads, usually because they have to sculpt them "off-model" to conform to the bobblehead concept and specs. But this one was cool enough that I bought it anyway. It's an excellent sculpting job that manages to look cute and menacing at the same time.

Particularly impressive to me is the paint job. It looks amazingly like brushed steel and not the soft plastic in which it's molded. It's head turns and it's arms move as well, which as far as I know is pretty rare for a bobblehead.

According to the packaging material he's supposed to be a T-700 model of Terminator. In case you're not an uber-geek like myself, the model number that Mr. Schwarzenegger portrayed in all the movies is a T-800. Honestly, I can't tell any difference. I looked at photos of both endoskeleton models and they look the same to me. Maybe an even bigger nerd than myself can spot a difference, but if there is one, I can't see it.

One word of caution if you decide to buy one: Take a good look at the face while you're still in the store. The head is made of some pretty soft plastic, and after I got home I noticed the right side of my Terminator's head was kind of squished in. I had to soak his head in hot water, then mash it back into shape and run cold water over him to set the plastic.

Best of all it was only $9.99!. In this current dark period of out of control action figure prices, that's almost like I stole it!

Dumb Slogan Dumb

As I may have mentioned now and then on my little blog, I work in the marketing field, so I have a more than passing interest in advertising, logos and the like.

So it is with that in mind that I look at this new ad slogan from the Quaker Oats company and say "What. The. Frak?"

"Go humans go?" I don't even know where to begin. What the heck does that even mean? Why does it say "humans?" If it's specifically mentioning our species by name, then surely it wasn't crafted by humans, was it? Did some of those sign language-speaking chimps commission this billboard? Did these suddenly sentient primates look around at what Man has accomplished over the millenia and decide to send us an opposable thumbs up? Seriously, I don't get it.

Or could it be that the off-center Quaker Oats Man is the one urging us on? I always thought he was, well, a Quaker. From Earth. You know, a member of the Religious Society of Friends. I guess I was wrong and he's from the planet Quaker. Maybe his race is looking for a new world to colonize and it's not a motivational slogan, but an order, as in "Go from this planet, vile humans, GO!" If so, then expect the first wave of the invasion fleet full of shock troops to land any day now.

Once again I have to mention that this slogan didn't write itself. There was no doubt an advertising agency involved, plus numerous copywriters and designers as well as countless executives from the Quaker Oats company. I wouldn't be surprised if 100 people were involved. I cannot believe that not even one of the people who worked on this project didn't look at this slogan and say, "Wow, that's... that's really awful. What the heck is that supposed to mean, anyway? How is this promoting our oatmeal?"

Whalen Little Golden Book Page

Since "being green" is all the rage these days, I decided to recycle an illustration!

I was looking at the original Whalen drawing and realized that it almost looked like a page from a kid's book. So I tweaked it a little, added some text, and presto! Instant Little Golden Book page.

I was looking over the copy I wrote and it just now struck me that his full name is apparently Whalen McBlowhole. Didn't really plan that, but I like it.

I'd like to make a full-blown story, but I don't really have any ideas for one. It's much easier to make one page and give the illusion that there's a whole book out there somewhere.

I know! Whalen could go on an adventure and learn that the most important thing is being true to yourself. Or that everybody's different and that's OK.

Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.

Roy Oafmeyer

I haven't had much time to draw this week and I was getting antsy to do something, so I made this really quick little drawing.

Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.


Here's the original sketch of Roy. Not a lot changed; the final drawing is pretty much identical.

Whalen

I started drawing this sometime last year and just didn't feel it was working, so I shelved it and forgot about it. I finally dug it out today and decided to finish it. I think I can live with it now.

I didn't like the background at first, but after staring at it for a few days it started to grow on me.

Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.

Tax Man

This was a quick in-house piece I did for work. I think it was for the accounting department, who would understandably be relieved to see the end of tax season.

Drawn and typeset in InDesign. I've found it surprises people when I say I drew something in InDesign, which is normally used for typesetting and laying out books. InDesign has many of the same drawing tools that Illustrator has, so you can draw in it as well. No brush tool though, unfortunately. It can't do everything that Illustrator does, but if you need to make some simple art you can get by in it.

By the way, about the variable width lines in the guy's face-- there isn't any pressure sensitivity in InDesign like there is in Illustrator. So on a shape like the guy's ear it's not just one curved line-- it's actually a filled "C" shape. So they're fake variable lines (does that make any sense?).

Jiff Jansen, Man Of The Future Trading Card

Here's another Jiff Jansen drawing, this time as a 1970s era trading card sticker.

The off-register print look was intentional, by the way. Maybe one of these days I'll do the rest of the cards in the set!

Drawn in Photoshop on the graphic tablet.

Here's the original sketch of Jiff.