Saturday, January 11, 2025

Post 713 - January 2025 Sketch Scans

 Some date back to 2022.  Oooh, Old School!

Note to self - blue ink doesn't CZUR scan well

Need to adjust contrast


Step Lively #1

Step Lively #2

Group Photo

Disturbed Princess, or Zombie Homecoming Queen

For ASIFA Central IAD project - test for Plympton style

Using up some Prismacolor

More IAD Plympton poster testing

Plympton IAD Poster test #3

"There once was a ship that went to seeeee...."

I dreamt of tongue depressors

The Soft Road to Nowhere

Schematic

I can pretty much draw these from memory now-adays.

Pencil sketch of rainbow sax

Pencil sketch of single-panel gag

Ever dangling overhead...

Playing with forced perspective

Legal alien, paperwork filed by AI

Oh let's just make swirls

When life hands you ice...

 All material (c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary

Monday, January 06, 2025

Post 712 - First Run of a Forgotten Project of 2007 - "When a Felon..."

Found this old unfinished Flash file, so I thought I'd post it here before I go to work with adjustments and background.  Another work in progress!  (this is progress?)

Run B - testing backgrounds and an added highlighting effect for characters:

Run C - This'll do for now...back "in the day" it was a 720x480 project, when 1K was just fine, thank you very much



(c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary




Sunday, January 05, 2025

Post 711 - A Few Sketches to Begin 2025

"Yule Tied" (b/w initial sketch)

New Math

Overdressed

Lemme tell ya sumpthin'

Pause


And again with the ribbons!

 

Oh, heck - some color, too - 


 

All material (c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary