PCW #872

Toon #872 could have been captioned as "The Devil's in the Details." - a sign that hung on the rear entrance of the old electrical engineering building that served as 'home' when I was an undergrad and grad student at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. (It served as home because I never seemed to drift to far from it due to the overwhelming number of projects and homework I would always seem to have.) The motto or lesson behind today's toon: Never underestimate the value of a good heatsink and thermal paste - especially when it comes to microprocessors.

PCW #871

For Toon #871, I didn't bother to add a background - notice that Bob is sitting on a tree trunk. Originally, I wanted to place the setting outside in the wilderness, but I scrapped that idea as I continued to work on it.

On the first colored and inked version (see above), you can see that the video card sticking outside Bob's MacBook was actually pretty small. Since the focus of the toon was about the MacBook, I decided to exaggerate the size of the video card in the final version to drive home the point.

PCW #870

Here is the sketch used to create PC Weenies #870. All my sketches are fairly rough - I prefer to tighten up the line quality when I digitally ink using Corel Painter IX.5. This drawing is unique, in that it's the first time I've drawn Milton as an old man. The little girl is obviously a futurized version of Sonia. I put her in as it's been a while since her last appearance in a PCW toon.

Welcome!

I've decided to start a blog that mirrors the latest PC Weenies toon, albeit in sketch format - for the express purpose of soliciting feedback from readers around the globe. Now you have an easy way to drop me a comment. Enjoy the sketchage!