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Good Morning Sir: I stumbled across your Leroy Brown/Jim Croce work and was impressed. Great Job. Can you do other animations? I wrote a book several years back that was taken from a record I really enjoyed listening to. I was wondering could you do similar work and what are your cost for a three minute session. Peace
Oh wow, that’s really cool! Of course, I did not do the Jim Croce cartoon. That was done way back in 1973 by a man named John Wilson for the Sonny & Cher Show. To do a 3 min. animation like that today would probably cost thousands of dollars. If you would like to see a cartoon I did, go to this link: https://youtu.be/kv1S9MIhqzE?si=ybNZ9cyfQeaoVMab
Eggman is the perfect character to show off the ‘blobs’ drawing technique.
I find that the best way to give the characters more of a real feeling is to think of them as being made of blobs.
By drawing big round blobs I can work out their positions and get a sense of their place in space. It also helps to give them some weight so they don’t look like they are two dimensional or floating in the panel. Here’s a great example of drawing blobs.
My favorite cartoon is by far King of the Hill. I just love the understated tone and the rhythm of the stories. It’s not full of slap dash one liners, sex jokes or poop humor. It’s hard to write like that and I think Mike Judge of Beavis and Butthead fame created a good cartoon.
One of Bill Dauterive’s relatives.
Everybody knows Hank Hill’s self loathing neighbor Bill Dauterive. The inside joke is that one of the original writers and executive producer’s name is Jim Dauterive. Here’s picture proof that there’s another Dauterive out there too! 🙂
When I’m doing a comic that includes unusual backgrounds or props I’ll go and get references to draw from. Here I needed some props for an abandoned arctic research lab. It’s always a good idea to draw from real life.
Here’s a picture of me standing next to a giant penguin! It’s a real size model of Pachydyptes the New Zealand Giant Penguin! He lived about 30 million years ago in New Zealand and was over 5 feet tall! I took this picture at the Auckland Museum in Auckland New Zealand.
Here is where I spilled my ink bottle last week… the entire bottle! Note the Ralph Steadman drawing that somehow crept in 🙂For those inquiring minds, that’s ‘Merton Of The Movement’ peaking out from the comics box. Know your classics!
Check out the trailer for the upcoming ‘Drawing ICECUBES’ podcast! The podcast will feature the entire drawing session of an original ICECUBES strip from beginning to end. Stay tuned and enjoy the show! 🙂
Hey fans, here’s a sneak peak at the upcoming podcast of Leroy Brown drawing ICECUBES! The movie shows the birth of an original ICECUBES strip from A to Z. Leroy Brown shares all kinds of tips and tricks and displays his techniques for putting together ICECUBES the comic strip!
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5 thoughts on “ICECUBES the comic strip #353”
Leroy Brown
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Anonymous
I notice the site for your Ice Cubes webcomic. Do you think you can do other comic book work in the future like maybe Sonic the Hedgehog for IDW?
Leroy Brown
Hi! Sure, I could do work for other comic books if they asked me. Who knows, it could happen! 🙂 Thanks for reading ICECUBES.
Anonymous
Good Morning Sir: I stumbled across your Leroy Brown/Jim Croce work and was impressed. Great Job. Can you do other animations? I wrote a book several years back that was taken from a record I really enjoyed listening to. I was wondering could you do similar work and what are your cost for a three minute session. Peace
Leroy Brown
Oh wow, that’s really cool! Of course, I did not do the Jim Croce cartoon. That was done way back in 1973 by a man named John Wilson for the Sonny & Cher Show. To do a 3 min. animation like that today would probably cost thousands of dollars. If you would like to see a cartoon I did, go to this link: https://youtu.be/kv1S9MIhqzE?si=ybNZ9cyfQeaoVMab
Blobs.
Easter Drawing.
King of the Hill.
Everybody knows Hank Hill’s self loathing neighbor Bill Dauterive. The inside joke is that one of the original writers and executive producer’s name is Jim Dauterive. Here’s picture proof that there’s another Dauterive out there too! 🙂
Reference Sketches.
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Hey fans, here’s a sneak peak at the upcoming podcast of Leroy Brown drawing ICECUBES! The movie shows the birth of an original ICECUBES strip from A to Z. Leroy Brown shares all kinds of tips and tricks and displays his techniques for putting together ICECUBES the comic strip!
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