After at least twenty minutes of work followed by a good long rest and a nice spa treatment, the latest two TWB Books are here!
Book 11, Overdraft, covers from the Great Snowball Fight to the Halloween Party where Jinx gets into the experimental Mountain D...
2019-04-14 10:36:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Thought you ladies and gents might like to see a bit of... well, failed art. :) This is a piece for a rapidly-upcoming project, digital "inking" over a scanned pencil sketch.
I got that far and thought more about the layout, and just didn't like it- the other options sketched below we...
2019-04-13 10:52:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Thought you ladies and gents might like a look at the Diner without all the dialogue covering it up.
I had sketched up a rough view for the strip, of this 50s "rail car" style diner- I'm a sucker for cool old architecture- and started looking up images of the real thing so I could start ink...
2019-03-27 08:57:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Had a quick idea for what might be a 'wrap up" of a potential ending to the current storyline, and made a quick sketch. I may have gotten carried away.
It's been a while since I did an actual pencil drawing- as opposed to just a sketch- although I was never particularly good at it even when...
2019-03-26 09:02:50 +0000 UTC View PostThank you all for participating in that fun little poll. Always good to hear directly from the readers! :)
Anyway, as you can see, "Date Night with Chase & Miki" leads the pack by a long stretch, with all three 'date nights' taking over 60% of the vote totals.
So, naturally, in th...
2019-03-25 07:52:37 +0000 UTC View PostTrying to decide where to go in the next couple of weeks, so figured I'd offer up the first-ever poll to you ladies and gents. I was considering leading into another "date night", but we had one of those not that long ago, so here's your chance to chime in, let me know what you think!
Doc.<...
2019-03-19 00:05:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I said earlier I'd post the cleaned-up book sketch I'd used as a line-art sample, so here it is! I was hoping to have gotten closer to finishing it, but as usual, free time is in very short supply these days.
I'd like to take a moment now and welcome the half dozen or so new patrons that ju...
2019-02-18 11:32:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, it's more of a sketch, but hey, I haven't posted any cheesecake in a while... and this sorta qualifies... :)
One of the many things keeping me occupied these days is setting up a laser engraver. Finally got it running, and tried several bits of artwork I had- mostly old sticker art an...
2019-02-13 11:21:30 +0000 UTC View PostIn order to keep the total number of posts manageable- plus it lets the reader see it in more chronological order.
Doc.
2019-01-28 07:53:52 +0000 UTC View Post
The linework for Miki's second pose is dropped in, then cleaned up. Once that's done, it's then copy-pasted into the third panel, where I deleted her head and right arm, replacing those with the rest of the art seen in the initial drawing. Tawny's head too gets replaced and cleaned up to change h...
2019-01-28 07:06:43 +0000 UTC View Post
The inital linework has been cleaned up, maybe shifted a bit, then dropped into the panel template. The first panel was then copy-pasted into the other two panels. In those two, we have different poses for Miki, so she was deleted from those.
9:34 PM
2019-01-28 06:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The dirty scan, compressed to pure black and white (no greyscale) and the linework cleaned up. Just Tawny's head so far.
9:07pm
2019-01-28 06:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a quick teaser for a (hopefully) upcoming and long-promised video on just exactly how the miracle that is TWB is made!
We start here on what will become Monday's strip (freshly drawn, by the way, this will be more or less in real-time.) The medium is simply a rough-pencilled set of p...
2019-01-28 05:42:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I was asked by enough people who missed out on the Holiday run of glasses that I went ahead and had another run done! I will admit, however, that the tipping point was that I had to have some other cargo shipped up anyway, and I thought I'd try adding an order of these to the shipment, to see if ...
2019-01-14 23:48:48 +0000 UTC View Post
For those that have been following the goings-on over on the Tinker's Guild, I recently finally got my CNC lathe conversion running, and figured out how to set it just enough to run a test program- in this case, it's cutting a pawn chesspiece.
For those that haven't been following the guild...
2018-12-25 20:55:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Kwanzaa, Joyeaux Saturnalia, Happy Festivus, whatever cranks your handle! :)
May all your gifts not explode unless and until you want them to, may all your visiting relatives come bearing tools, money, food, giftcards or booze-...
2018-12-25 07:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to my total lack of a dedicated IT staff and some other projects going on, I really wasn't able to sit down with the new host 'til the past couple of days and get the move sorted out. I do apologize, but this kind of thing is not my forte', and both myself and the h...
2018-12-20 09:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry about that, ladies and gents. I've been a little tied up in the shop and elsewhere, and apparently rather stupidly fell back to the old habit of letting the updater do it's job. And, of course, i'm locked out of the server for the time being, so...
Continued apologies, all....
2018-12-13 19:49:57 +0000 UTC View Post
[long string of expletives, colorful as they were, deleted]
Sorry, ladies and gents, looks like this is going to keep happening 'til we finally switch over. I'll do what I can, please, er, bear with us.
Doc.
2018-12-05 18:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's Monday's comic. I have no idea why they only load halfway, but at the moment I'm locked out again too... I'm workin' on it.
Doc.
2018-12-03 16:33:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry about that people, I don't know what happened, and I am at the moment unable to connect to my host to fix it.
I also just sat through another 7.2 earthquake and am currently under a tsunami warning, but that's normal. :)
(Edit: The Warning's been lifted, as expected.)
(Edit, Part...
2018-11-30 18:02:26 +0000 UTC View PostI just got a call from MTA, the people that host both TWB and Doc's Machine, and they laid a nice Christmas present on me: as of December 31st, they will be discontinuing any and all of their public web hosting. They've always been a data farm for local heavy industry- that i...
2018-11-30 00:24:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a touch late, but I'd still like to say I'm very thankful for all of your support, whether you're a top-tier donor or just a regular reader.
Your collective- and individual- generosity has been a huge help to my struggling little business, and it's fair to say there'...
2018-11-23 09:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, earlier this week I got the very last of the way-overdue orders shipped out, and had to spend the rest of the week catching up on other customer work that had lagged a bit while I was doing all that. :)
I hate to say it, but I basically lost money on the beer glasses, mainly through shipping...
2018-11-23 09:21:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick update on the Big Book Sale! All orders as of this morning have been shipped, and I have received zero notifications that any glasses were found broken on arrival! :)
However, I still have a few overseas orders that have been hangin' fire for altog...
2018-11-15 23:31:45 +0000 UTC View PostCaught up! As of 10:52 PM on Wednesday, I have all the US orders completed! The last dozen (as of this posting) are sitting by my front door and will be shipped first thing in the morning.
I do still have a fair handful of Canadian and Overseas orders, that I'm filling and sh...
2018-11-08 08:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe comic ain't lyin'- I've done nothing but print postage, box orders and take 'em to the Post Office, since about Sunday afternoon. I've received just over 100 orders so far, and thanks to the beer glasses, orders that include those take extra effort to pack, since I want them all to arrive intact...
2018-11-07 10:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy crap, I forgot about that, but yes, Fanboy Sketches are definitely still available for any and all books. For just $10 each I'll deface the back of your book with the character of your choice, hand sketched and hand-inked by yours truly.
For those of you who have already placed an order, they...
2018-11-04 22:57:39 +0000 UTC View PostFor you Canadian, British and other Patrons, go ahead and email your order directly to grumpy@the-whiteboard.com, any time you're ready, starting pretty much right now.
The store software can be kind of wonky calculating overseas shipping- last book run, most of the orders were mischarged (slightl...
2018-11-04 20:49:32 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, the next three TWB books are out!
Book 8, "Justifiable Carnage" (featuring the first zombie-attack arc) Book 9, "Paradox" (featuring Doc and Roger's experiments with the Wormhole Gun, the very start of the tournament arc, and Jinx and Kasi trick-or-treating) and...
2018-11-04 18:44:41 +0000 UTC View Post