Thing 1: I HAVE NO SOCKS
a pause
a pause
sock appears
This comic was inspired by a conversation on Annalee Newitz‘s twitter about whether the Machine in Person of Interest is a metonym or synecdoche for the surveillance state. Hooray for interesting conversations!
Thing 1 & Thing 2: We have a sock.
Thing 1: Socks need something
Thing 2: Something we’re missing
*Boot appears; Things smile*
Thanks to Emily and Andrew for inspiring this comic.
*Thing 1 wears sock on head; Thing 2 smiles; Boot laughs*
I was almost ready to export to photo library when sketchbook crashed. Crashed so hard it randomly deleted FOUR layers – leaving me with the original scratchy sketch and the most recent layer I had created. What did that layer contain? The coloring for the sole of the boot. All else was gone. So I had to redraw and recolor and poooo!
Yep I’m gonna find me a new app.
As an added extra, given you were kind enough to stick around and listen to me rant, here’s the original sketch.
BuNSOn Hoppydew – this comic is for you.
I’m exploring new iPad software called Procreate. It seems to be much more stable than Sketchbook, but – well as you can see it’s a struggle and it doesn’t seem to like exporting as a particularly high res image. Still, it’s a process and I’m happy to be learning. I’ve spent a whole day redrawing Things comics and trying to figure out line weights, so hopefully you’ll forgive me for not redrawing this one again.
Transcript:
Thing 1 & Thing 2: We have no arms and no legs
Bunson: I have legs
*Bunson wears sock on head; Things smile*
I’ve been struggling to clean up scans to make you some more animated giffs. My brain has not been awesome enough to succeed now that I don’t have a working copy of photoshop. I ended up drawing this in a free downloadable app… only it doesn’t export as a giff the way I assumed it does… so assume it’s a looping giff, cause otherwise the end message will make no sense!
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And it’s quite possible the recommended links will be random heat exhaustion vlogs from my first trip to America years ago (YEARS I TELL YOU YEARS). The sound quality is terrible, and I’m sure I don’t make sense and possibly say terrible things/don’t make sense. I don’t recommend you watch them. I’m just too technology fatigued to lock them all away as private!
First drawing using my new Hand Stylus
And that is where odd socks go.
I drew this on the plane home from LA! Don’t worry, things will be in the comic tomorrow 🙂
