Cartooning
March 31st, 2015 – Caricatures in St. Petersburg!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.31, 2015, under Caricatures, Cartooning
A bit o’ caricature fun in St Petersburg today at an event. Janice, here, is firing from all cylinders. Firing hot lead, that is. So is her sure fire bird and not so sure fire dog. You see Janice comin’ around – Duck!
March 27th, 2015 – My New Swampy’s Florida Book – Dunnellon!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.27, 2015, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
Out here in Palm Bay picking up the brand new Dunnellon book!
March 23rd, 2015 – My Swampy’s Florida: Dunnellon coming Saturday!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.23, 2015, under Cartooning, Swampy's Florida
#15 in the series of Swampy’s Florida premieres this Saturday at the Florida SpringsFestival at Silver Springs State Park. Swampy …and me…will be there with all of the books to sign and doodle in. Stop by and let’s talk about traveling our great state of Florida to discover more of it’s incredible history, heritage and culture!
I’ll also be videoing more ‘Man in the Swamp’ reports there! Step in for a quickie interview!
March 17th, 2015 – Meetings and Artwork!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.17, 2015, under Cartooning
Been at a meeting for a few hours tonight and got a ton of time consuming artwork done! Yay!
February 18th, 2015 – Artwork on the road!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.18, 2015, under Cartooning
Been attending a meeting and getting artwork done!
February 14th, 2015 – Valentine’s Day Handrawn cards at Silver Springs State PArk
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.14, 2015, under Cartooning, Florida Attractions
I spent the day at Silver Springs State Park hand drawing and painting Valentine’s cards for a special price. While there I also promoted our Silver Springs Festival and Marion County Museum of History and Archaeology. I, as usual, fumbled trying to sell cards and went about cheerleading what I was promoting. Finally, folks got wise they were missing out on a great deal involving Valentine’s Day cards and I was put to the test to knock out many as the day closed. Notice it is nearly dark in one photo.
February 5th, 2015 – Another of my Romer, the Recycling Squirrel #cartoons !
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.05, 2015, under Cartooning
Here’s another of the Romer, the Recycling Squirrel series from the City of Orlando’s City Hallways. This one includes folks here on Facebook. Like Robert Spindler, Pamela Swinehart Duffy and Ed Richter. Don’t know if Barbara is here on Facebook or not. This was the graphics section of the City of Orlando in the latter days I was there.
This is #2 of 3 of day #4 of #5 of a Facebook Art Challenge.
February 5th, 2015 – More of my Romer, the Recycling Squirrel #cartoon!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Feb.05, 2015, under Cartooning
More Romer, the Recycling Squirrel I scrawled out for our City Hallways more than 20 years ago while I was with the City of Orlando. This one is a favorite of mine. John Everhart was a co-worker who had one heck of a sense of humor. That last panel is an exact pose you might find him in if you came through the engineering department.
The cartoon involved a bit of editorial that employees were told one day that we no longer had a place to park and had to park blocks away and walk to City Hall. I didn’t mind the walk. It’s that the City was slowly giving away all the land around the building to business investors. I remember so well after the old City Hall was visually imploded at the beginning of the film Lethal Weapon 3, Lew Oliver arranged the new City Hall to have property around the building that might be built and then leased to help City taxpayers. Within ten years Lew was gone and the opposite happened.
This is Day 4 of a 5 day challenge that I got flipped in my head. That and I’ve been busy. This is #1 0f 3 for the day. Heck, I almost need a legal description to work this thing out!
I’m apparently supposed to ask another artist to post 3 bits of artwork for 5 days and also ask another artist to post work. OK, AE Sabo – You’ll likely follow the rules better than I. 😀
January 30th, 2015 – Another of my Perelman cartoon strips!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.30, 2015, under Cartooning
Here’s another Perelman strip I did back in the 1990s. All explained in the previous post.
This was tough involving getting photos of South Street in Orlando with cards in places where I could then place the pumpkin in various spots. Today, using Adobe Photoshop, it would be far easier than it was 20+ years ago. I remember I went to Police Headquarters to get the photo of the police car. To get the broken up pumpkin I believe I actually smashed a pumpkin and took photos of it.
This is #3 of 3 of the 5 day Facebook Art Challenge as asked of me by my pal Pam Treadwell.
January 30th, 2015 – My Perelman Cartoon!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.30, 2015, under Cartooning
Back in the 1990s I produced a cartoon strip in conjunction with the City of Orlando and the Orlando Sentinel. The feature was about a law office, Benchley & Associates, and a hapless paralegal, Perelman. It appeared monthly in a Sentinel publican Downtown Orlando Monthly.
I decided to try something different at the time. All the characters were cartoons and all everything else was real. The cartoon stuff was easy. Taking hundreds of photographs and manipulating them with Adobe Photoshop was tough! Remember: it was the mid-90s and computers and Photos shop is not what it is today. The head of out department was a computer guru who liked to push computers beyond what was thought they could do. This strip fir that perfectly. I was constantly jamming the state of the art computer with this project.
To better explain what each strip required is to take a look at the art below. The room everyone is in is the City Clerk’s office on the 2nd floor. The copier I photographed on the 4th floor. The coffee maker on the 8th floor. Even the paper Mr. Benchley is holding is a real copy I made of my tie. It was a LOT of work.
The strips characters are all named after my favorite humor writers of the early 1900s, members of the famed Algonquin Round Table in New York City. Perelman is named after my very favorite S. J. Perelman.
The strip ran until the publication ended due to issues between the City and the Sentinel.
I’ll post another soon. This is #2 of 3 for today for the Facebook Art Challenge that I was tagged for by Pam Treadwell
January 29th, 2014 – More of my City Hall artwork: A Puppet Fairy Tale
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jan.29, 2015, under Cartooning
Here’s something else I did while at the City of Orlando, though i did a bunch of this with my own time. It was for the puppet theater the City used to have at the City Community Centers.
Each of the characters shown was also a puppet. I remember going out to get photos for this.
This for Facebook Art Challenge #3 of 3. Pam Treadwell
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