It started out with my thirteen-year-old visiting niece asking for a drawing of an elephant last week. I found that drawing elephants and rhinos amused me, so when I woke up this morning and didn't feel like working on my comic book, I decided to let myself be distracted.
When I was a kid in the late 1950's, I overheard an older neighbor boy use a sentence with the word "pregnant" in it. He warned me not to repeat that word in front of my parents or else we would both get in big trouble. It puzzled and scared me a little.
Love that elephant's head. All the driftwood type of sworl looking structure.
ReplyDeleteI like the dumb joke too. Made charming.
Also like the structure drawing of the elephant leg showing thru in the rhino.
Nicely done. I don't get the joke. I always like seeing some of the construction lines left in when looking at drawings. To me it takes a lot of discipline to remember to construct properly instead of scribbling over scribbles.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that the joke is meant to be spoken. When you say it out loud, 'elifino sounds like "Hell if I know."
ReplyDeleteI know. Awful isn't it? Must remember to punch self tonight. Comes from spending too much time alone now that I'm not working.
ReplyDeleteI like it Tom and I "DID" get the joke. Love your use of color.
ReplyDeleteCUTE. Very cute. Not vulgar. At all.
ReplyDeleteOh my lord, this is so awesome. And I totally got the joke and loved it.
ReplyDeleteSo interesting to see your drawing style develope--and by "develope" I don't mean improve per se, but evolve. Whereas before so much of the charm in yr draughtmanship would be found in the earnest, un-editorialized recording of shapes, here there is a definite stylization...but the stylization looks perfectly honest & uncontrived. A natural evolution born of all the "mileage" you've been logging lately, I'd guess? (Which is the way I think most authentic "individual style" comes into being--not self-consciously imposed, but developed as a sort of habitual "mark making" that comes from lots of work.)
Love it.
"DEVELOPE"
ReplyDeleteOOF!!
You could do something as simple as a postcard or small print with just the little guy: "HELIPHINO"
ReplyDeleteIn fact, couldn't you just see a whole fantasy zoological series? Or even all the dinosaurs done in the Moon style. Would be incredible!!
Love the joke, love the illustration! Awesome work, Tom!
ReplyDeleteI think the "Develope" should be an animal, too ... like an "Antelope," but, well, different ...
ReplyDeleteI think the "Develope" should be an animal, too ... like an "Antelope," but, well, different ...
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