Scrawlin’

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Let’s start strong, won’t we? Of the pic­tures that I can find and dis­trib­ute in elec­tronic form, this is the most fin­ished. I asked myself one night, “John, does the world have enough people shaped like candy apples? Does it, now?” The answer was appar­ently “no”!

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High-​tech living just isn’t as excit­ing as it used to be. Get your standin’ shoes ready for the day when Hall Wait­ing becomes a favorite pas­time. (The phrase “national pastime” would fool­ishly archaic in this con­text, since we will of course have no need for the nation-​state in the future. Star Trek doesn’t lie—nearly two decades have passed and I’m still reel­ing from the Eugen­ics Wars.)

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  1. PlantPerson says:

    I do enjoy your style. What’s your process? Is any/all of this done in vec­tors?

  2. John says:

    Well thanks! Actu­ally, this image was made entirely in Pho­to­shop, from pen­cils (fig­u­ra­tive pen­cils, I guess) to col­or­ing. I could prob­a­bly spend less time on the inking, though.

    For back­grounds, I make heavy use of the polyg­o­nal lasso and mar­quee tools, on account of my shaky hands. (They’re fairly shaky!) I’d like to dial back the styl­iza­tion in the future, but them’s the shakes for the time being.

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