I have taken the next step in evolution by creating my first “talky”. I have animated my comic strip! The plan is to produce one per month. Enjoy the existential hijinks! At this time, only my followers here at Oddbox Comics get to see this. I have a little bit more work to do on this before I make it public on YouTube. I’m going to make a new thumbnail that parodies YouTube thumbnails. You know, a lot of sensationalistic bullcrap with plenty of arrows and red circles. Also, I plan to attach my animated ScribblePad ad.
One day, my niece Kya was explaining why she would never use nasal decongestant ever again. She said that it worked so well that she could “smell her own nose”. To me, that was a gag that needed very little refinement. In my mind, the only thing that could make it any funnier was the situation seen above.
I have created new packaging for the ScribblePad. I think it makes the product look more complete. If necessity is the mother of invention, then this is the baby. I’m not quite sure what I mean by that. It was born more out of economic necessity rather than aesthetical necessity. I wanted to move on to blister packaging for the next batch of Scribbles but was running short on money, so, I thought, “Perhaps I should figure out a way to do my own packaging on this go around”, so I did. Ta-Daaaa! It is basically the same as the last packaging, (same size, same bag) except the display cardstock goes inside the bag and extends all the way to the bottom of the bag. I call this, “The Poor Man’s Blister Packaging”. Not only does it look better than my former packaging, in my opinion, but it is sturdier, stronger. Also, like blister packaging, I have more space to add other pertinent information on the back (directions, instructions, ingredients and so on).
These are now available at https://skribbers.com. Not only does the ScribblePad packaging have an exciting new look, but the pad designs themselves have been altered in subtle and not so subtle ways. For instance, one just disappeared. (But that means there is a new one!) If Necessity is the mother of Invention, Passion, most assuredly, is the father.
Here is my new video promoting the ScribblePad. Get one while you can! The Frogs sold out and there are only sixteen Butterflies left. Buy them from Amazon here…https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPQ78YCC?th=1
I made a logo for a fictitious fast-food restaurant called Chuck’s Chickenburgers. I learned how to wrap lettering around a circle, how to use the eye-dropper tool to change the color of things quickly, and how to manipulate shapes and mold them into recognizable objects.
This is what I did on my first foray into Illustrator. You may be asking, as well you should, “Why a buck-toothed fish, Bob?” From what I can glean, so far, Illustrator appears to be all about shapes. So I made a shape and I looked at it and said to myself, “I can make a fish out of that.” Why buck teeth, you ask. Well, that mouth just looked like it was begging for buck teeth. Also, I bring your attention to the eyes. I don’t know what I did but they just appeared to the right of the “fish”. I thought they looked like eyes, so I gave the fish the eyes that destiny deemed I should.
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