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!
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.
Sock sits in Boot.
Sock is upside down with head in Boot.
Sock hiding behind Boot.
Sock sitting on top of Boot.
Socks have good days too.
And that is where odd socks go.
Many odd socks flying through the air in V formation. A bird is startled by them. It is a lovely day.
Bunson talks to Sock
Bunson: I am a bunny
Bunson: You are a sock.
Bunson: Do you understand?
Sock sits on Bunson’s head.
Bunson sitting in Boot.
Bunson: This is my shoe.
Bunson and Sock stare at each other.
Sock rides into in Skate, who is doing a wheelie.
I drew this on the plane home from LA! Don’t worry, things will be in the comic tomorrow 🙂
Bunson in Boot and Sock in Skate stare at each other.
Skate aggressively stands on its toe stop and looms at Bunson.
Boot opens its mouth at Sock.
Sock gets scared and hides upside down in Skate.