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Steamy Salutations!
Hey there, welcome to Brown Rice, an experimental blogtoon by Tim De los Reyes, that is, me.
My main selfish motive for this page is to light a fire under my ass and keep me thinking, writing, drawing and blogging. And here's hoping I grab a laugh or two from you, dear readers, along the way.
In addition to that, I may post non-humor excerpts from my sketchpad from time to time, just for some variety. (He'll do that when he's stalling for a cartoon concept. ---Ed.)
Please do leave your comments and suggestions below each post. This blogtoon is experimental and will forever be in flux (not the capacitor, mind you), so please do sound off your thoughts and they will surely inform my succeeding work.
If you're too shy to leave a comment, you can always email me here.
My main selfish motive for this page is to light a fire under my ass and keep me thinking, writing, drawing and blogging. And here's hoping I grab a laugh or two from you, dear readers, along the way.
In addition to that, I may post non-humor excerpts from my sketchpad from time to time, just for some variety. (He'll do that when he's stalling for a cartoon concept. ---Ed.)
Please do leave your comments and suggestions below each post. This blogtoon is experimental and will forever be in flux (not the capacitor, mind you), so please do sound off your thoughts and they will surely inform my succeeding work.
If you're too shy to leave a comment, you can always email me here.
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7 comments:
hey! maybe his body should have been just a little bit more RED...? Hehe. At first I thought he was a guy stripping and people were hollering at his "hot bod"... just a suggestion.
Hahaha.... while that 'hot bod' idea may actually have been funnier in some twisted way, I've noted your comment and revised the image to a nice lobster-tan red. Thanks for your input! Really do appreciate it. Keep it coming...
Awesome blog timits! Yeah I thought it was a guy stripping. At first I thought it wouldn't have hurt to make the body hotter in the superficial sense. But on second thought, it would definitely take away from your original concept. On a third thought, nothing wrong with layered meanings. I could go on and on... Hey hope to see you at my wii place! SOON! No more excuses.
Hey man I just realized this. A big reason why a lot are mistaking your cartoon guy to be stripping is quite fundamental: you can't see his face. We don't really see him in pain, and only find out through the text and title. The visual is significantly weakened by our inability to read his facial expression.
Remember our dear mentor's words: it's all about the human condition expressed in emotions. In comedy, it's just exaggerated, and emotion is always centered on the human face. :)
--Micah
You definitely have a point. And it may work better with a face...but in retrospect think the main problem is that the way the words are laid out...it looks like people are jeering at him from AROUND him rather than coming from him himself. If it was a speech bubble, it would have been much clearer, even without a comical expression. Placing a silly face on him without the speech bubble may just make him look like an embarrassed stripper. Haha.
hey anonymous, not all jokes need a face or an emotion that shows through the face. Jokes aren't just about exaggeration, it's also about a lot of things say reversals. You know, where the comedian makes you think one thing then it turns out to be another thing. Look it up.
Read more humor man.
Hey Anonymous 2! Thanks for your delightful suggestions, but the point of the comic was portrayal of pain. Showing his face would be the simplest way to do that. All comedians from Chaplain to Seinfeld have always revealed how they were feeling through clear body language, save for when the joke calls for tension by concealment.
I will look through all my comics and videos though and try to see if I can be further enlightened. Thanks again!
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