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‘Space Disagreement’ – My Live Drawing from a Month Ago.

by on Aug.11, 2023, under Illusration, What's New?

I made this up as I drew it.
I do not recall, now, what inspired this.
Next live is Friday at 7pm on my Cartoons by Rob Smith, Jr. Facebook page.:
https://www.facebook.com/CartoonsByRobSmithJr
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#Art #Illustration #Cartoon #Illustration #Draw #Drawing #Artlife #Space #shuttle #Astronauts #Battle
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My Snoopy’s birthday card from Florida….

by on Aug.10, 2023, under Cartooning

In 2015 cartoonists drew cartoons to celebrate the  in celebration of Snoopy’s birthday. I thought I’d participate and add a Florida twist.
 If you don’t know, this is typically how everyone is welcomed to Florida!
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#Cartooning #Cartoons #CartoonArt #Arts #Artists #Snoopy #Peanuts #Birthday #illustration

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‘Button up your Overcoat’ – My live drawing from Wednesday.

by on Aug.10, 2023, under What's New?

I made this up as I drew it.
I’d scrolled to a random song in my music list and clicked ‘Button up your Overcoat’ sung by Jack Lemon, the U.K. singer.
Next live is Thursday at 7pm on my Cartoons by Rob Smith, Jr. Facebook page.:
https://www.facebook.com/CartoonsByRobSmithJr
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#Art #Illustration #Cartoon #Illustration #Draw #Drawing #Artlife #Home #homearts
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‘Space Octopus’ – My live drawing from a few months ago.

by on Aug.09, 2023, under Cartooning

I made this up as I drew it.

I don’t recall how octopus and space came up during the program in May.

Next Live on my Cartoons by Rob Smith, Jr. page should be Tuesday at 7pm.
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#Art #Illustration #contractors #roofers #Cartoon #Illustration #Draw #Drawing #Artlife #Octopus #Ocopi #Space #ScienceFiction #SciFi
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‘Happy Armadillo’ – My live drawing from Saturday.

by on Aug.08, 2023, under What's New?

I made this up as I drew it.
Kelly Young, in the ‘Chat’ area brought up ‘Armadillo’.

Felt tip pen on Miller sketch paper.

Next live here should be next Saturday at 7.
Next Live on my Cartoons by Rob Smith, Jr. page should be Tuesday at 7pm.
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Comic Pages I was working on a year ago….

by on Aug.08, 2023, under Cartooning


2 years ago I inked these pages for the Swampy’s Florida book, ‘Ross Allen’.
This was printed as a 20 page book 6 months later.

I’m in the process of producing an expanded version that should be available by the first of 2024.
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#Cartooning #Cartoons #Comics #Art #artwork #FloridaArt #Florida

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‘A Conversation’ – My live drawing from 2 months ago.

by on Aug.07, 2023, under Cartooning

I don’t recall what prompted me to draw this.
Though, ‘GBS’ tips me off my thoughts involved George Bernard Shaw.
 
Kuretake and Tombow brushes on Miller sketch paper.
 
Next live is here at 7pm, Tuesday.
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#Art #Illustration #contractors #roofers #Cartoon #Illustration #Draw #Drawing #Artlife #bears #Raccoons
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My Book Reviews: ‘The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell’ by Lilian Jackson Braun.

by on Aug.06, 2023, under Books

The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell (Cat Who... #28)The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell by Lilian Jackson Braun
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

First, this book is meaningless without reading the series in order. This could be read alone, but there is so much that bleeds from the last book, 5 books ago, 10 books ago, etc. that this entry will make far less sense.

As I’ve read these in order over the past three years (With hundreds of other books interspersed in between), I’ve wondered when i would wrap it all. Aiming for the 3 year anniversary August 22nd.
In that three years I’ve more and more enjoyed the romps through Pickax than any other series I’ve read. Hope to find another so intriguing and fun.

This next to last entry is more visiting with fictitious friends, felines and families of Pickax. Much has occurred in between novels. Significant alterations in Pickax life is written here.
These books started as a mystery series. As the series as gone on, the series has become more of a 400 Miles North of Everywhere soap opera. A soap opera I don’t mind reading.
Though, there are a few troubles in the book.

As with the last couple books, there is significant repetition of situation in this book.
Also, with the thought others were writing these last few, I noted sentences and paragraphs that are reminiscent of ones found in earlier books. Was this Braun losing new ways to write or ghost writers swiping from other books? Apparently, the publisher is not talking.

Something I also noticed in this book is a significant mark of empathy of Qwilleran. In other books close friends die and he is written as carrying on without a care. In this one he is written to mourn of the four deaths of folks close to him that occur in this book.

Bottom line: I recommend this book. 5 out of ten points.

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My Book Reviews: ‘Kodocha: Sana’s Stage’, Vol. 01 by Miho Obana.

by on Aug.06, 2023, under Books, Cartooning

Kodocha: Sana's Stage, Vol. 01Kodocha: Sana’s Stage, Vol. 01 by Miho Obana
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Note: As I continue to create comics, I’m trying to slip in comic trade paperback material.

This is such simplistic, poorly rendered, plotted and laid out book, that I wonder how it got produced. Was this originally 3 times the size and reduced to the typical manga trade paperback size? The type is at times so tiny, eye strain should be anticipated.

The plot weaknesses should have been noted to the writer to clean up before publication. The streamlining of a large amount of repetition of dialogue and situations could’ve aided the written problems here.

The artistic problems are, again, the faulty of an editor that should’ve flagged poor story layouts that should’ve been noticed in the thumbnail stage.
The artist did negotiate the repetition well be not drawing the same drawings of repeated scenes.

Characters are stereotypical and the story is much the same.
Drawings of characters are unoriginal. Typical absence of setting is a significant setback.

Bottom line: I don’t recommend this book. 3 out of ten points.

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My drawing of Tarzan and watermelons from last week’s live drawing….

by on Aug.06, 2023, under Cartooning

August 2nd was Watermelon Day and something got me thinking of Tarzan.
Thus, the drawing made up as I drew last week.

Felt marker on sketch paper.
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#Art #Srawing #LiveArt #Watermelons #Cartoons #Cartooning #CartoonArt

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A photo with, my friend, Jack Davis 10 years ago…

by on Aug.06, 2023, under Cartooning

In 2013 there was a celebration of, legendary cartoonist, mainstay of MAD magazine & friend, Jack Davis.
I was very fortunate to be invited to be part of the multi-day event that took place on St. Simons Island, Georgia.

The memories of the event, just for me, will last a lifetime. Various public events and then some personal ones. I’ll never forget time at the Davis house with Jack and his wife Dena.

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