Dave Davenport (dogspunk)

Rainbow Warrior pg.9

  (continued from pg.8)

...so this was the last installment for the Fight magazine. I had no idea what I wanted to do with this story at this point, and felt like I should quit while I was ahead. The arrangement wasn't a "for pay" one (I got ad space in return), so at least it wasn't a breach of any sort of ...

Rainbow Warrior pg.8

  (continued from pg.7)

... I've been informed that I had this sleep issue while with Jackie, as well. So that fits more with my current theory of it, rather than the one I was exploring with this comic---that it's a manifestation of dissatisfaction with the relationship, a sub/unconscious one since my wakin...

Thanks, me Droogies!

I sent you all messages thanking you for this, but I wanted to expound on it in a post. 

This has been a peculiar month for my Patreon page, as you all know, because I am deep into illustrating a comic book for hire. It's going well, and will more than likely result in continued work to at least finish out the story begin...

Guinan

So I've been telling a lot of people that I'm too busy with Velvet Collar to take new tattoo clients unless they want to wait a month or so, but then someone in town for Ru Paul's Drag-con says they want me to tattoo Guinan on them.  

Like I could say no? 

So that's going on in an hour or so. I'll let you know ...

Rainbow Warrior pg.7

 (continued from pg.6)

... So that's basically what I thought were the two factors in what I was experiencing: the almost psychic block against raising a fist, and the desire to learn how to raise my fists and break through that block. It manifested in REM Behavior Disorder.

     Th...

Madge

My patron and friend lost his best friend this week. This is for him. You can hear the purring in the pic I drew this from.
Also, I didn't realize until this drawing (the first was a mess... call it a warm up), that this isn't a chair she's on, but Mike's lap.
Okay, getting teary eyed, now.
Big hugs and love your pets a...

Velvet Collar page

Hey all, I am so busy with this book. Trying to get my speed up so that it evens out to minimum wage at least. That's a lot of work. I'd say I'm getting to between 10 -12 hours a page (at best). That said, it's not a living wage :/ 

But here's a sample page... I'm very pleased with the coloring here. The conference I went...

Down & Dirty panel

(photo credit: William Tyler)

This is shortly before it began... left to right:   (Frank Bramlett, moderator standing at podium just out of frame), Roy T. Cook (co-moderator), me nervously drinking some water, Patrick Fillion, Maurice Vellekoop,  Gengoroh Tagame, Tagame's translator Anne, and Justin Hal...

Rainbow Warrior pg.6

 (continued from pg.5)

...The gay boxing club was a hoot. It was a fun way to get a different kind of workout, and the other boxers were really fun people... but the turn over was really high, and before too long I had been among the people in the club for the longest, and the coach was pushing me to compete. I w...

Rainbow Warrior pg.5

 (continued from pg.4)

...I had grown up in a physically abusive home. My father had battered all of his wives. I think this led me to think of violence as something to never let out of myself, especially after my first altercation with a female roommate, my first time living away from my parent's house. I'd actu...

QUEERS & COMICS!

Next Friday and Saturday I'll be at the  QUEERS & COMICS conference in San Francisco!  

I've not been to one before, but from what I've heard it's like a convention without a dealers room... so more social interactions an...

Daughter sketch

One of the characters in the comic I'm drawing has a daughter, I am happy with how she's coming along 😇

Rainbow Warrior pg.4

(continued from pg.3)

I chose the MMA fighter for two reasons. 1) fighters are fun to draw, and 2) I had been in a boxing club at one point and that figured into my personal theory of why I was experiencing R.E.M. behavior disorder.

I had joined the boxing club to learn how to throw a punch. I'd never been in a ...

Rainbow Warrior pg.3

So a little about this story: spoilers! (it's half-baked).

The Fight had approached me about doing a strip for them. My only experience with such was a period a few years earlier when I had been doing something for Treasure Island Media (yes, that T.I.M.), and that didn't end well. For T.I.M. I was told I could do whatever I w...

Rainbow Warrior pg.2

I've reformatted these to be square and more visible on a screen rather than 4 panels horizontal like it was in the magazine. in the case of this part, it ended up taking the odd/even panel color scheme and put each like panel on the right or the left (instead of alternating).

Ah, well.

2017-03-31 06:54:57 +0000 UTC View Post

full page "hero shot" from Velvet Collar

Hey I mentioned that I won't be posting the whole of the book, only occasional drawings and pages, but this here's one of them. It's late in the first issue when all of the protagonists meet up. It was originally just one panel on a crowded page, but it was my idea to make it a full page in itself. This would then make a good pr...

Rainbow Warrior pg.1

Hey all, my sincerest apologies for the lack of content recently. I had hoped to lighten my tattooing load while working on this commissioned comic to keep up a schedule here, but no luck thus far... I've had a busy day job and thus over-committed.

To make up for this, I will post some archive stuff that you've likely n...

shop signage

Hey Droogs!

I'm busy busy busy. Been working hard to get the layouts for that comic book job drawn, and at the same time finishing up our new shop signage (pictured above). This was a split draw by Josh and myself, and I am doing all of the photoshopping and coloring... this will be our new window overlay (53 by 91 inches) and...

Commissioned Work

So this thing is happening. 

I'm getting paid to do an adult comicbook. The writer has been persistently after me to do something for him, and he's been very respectful and even offered me a choice of projects. I chose one that seemed the most interesting to me, based on a broader variety of peop...

***UPDATES***

Almost done with the linework for the poster version of the center spread from DAMAGED. 

Then it's coloring, and off to the printer for the book... the print will probably be available from my Society 6 store, or maybe Deviant Art... some such on-demand thing. 

A note about the comic--- I wanted to try a good p...

Sidewalk Sale pg.2

Page one is here. 

Just a simple meet-cute story. 

I built up the two to be minor celebs in the pup scene in "Damaged", and their pages got a good amount of atttention, so I figured they would make a good back-up.&nbs...

Sidewalk Sale pg.1

Page two is here. 

Hey Droogies!

It's the first of two pages of a little extra story to go in the print job of DAMAGED.  This is the first time I have had someone else draw a story I wrote... maybe this will turn into a regular thing!...

...strange party...

Hey all, still fluffing "Damaged" for print. I've done all of the fixes I want to except for one major one: the center spread. I'm spending a bit of time on that because I want to offer it as a print on it's own. I've felt I could make it a bit cleaner... not in a dirty/clean way, but in a line-work way. 

So ...

Patron only BONUS

Hey Droogies, it's another model sheet, this time for Dr. Max Bonito. Of course he spends half of his screen time naked so I did him nude first. Next is a dress-up version of him! 

***!!!BONUS post!!!***

Hey it's a model sheet for Grant, Feral's human alter ego! 

Humble confession time: I struggle with proportions. I've come to a place where I draw heads too big for their bodies... I didn't realize it conciously until the editor from 2000ad mentioned it. Feedback is good! I'd for years now been shrinking heads after drawi...

Burial of the Rats pg 37

One thing I am definitely considering now is removing myself from the story, making the first person narrator of me as unseen, but still break the fourth wall. I have to re-draw the 1st page anyhow, because I accidentally saved it at a reduced resolution... one of those mistakes you hopefully only make once in your life. I'll re...

Happy Pet Appreciation Day!

I had time to sneak this one in before the end of the day. 

And I sure appreciate my doggie. 

Did you hug your pet(s) today?

Burial of the Rats pg 36

I'd imagine I'll have to make sure I kept my tenses in line. I have a bad habit in narratives of bouncing between the present and past tense. I'll have to write all of the text out on one document to make sure it gels and works as prose... I'm sure it came off as clunky here. I tried to make it more digestible as something read ...

Burial of the Rats pg 35

This is the old soldier/chiffonier based on David Z... again, hard to see with all the extra wrinkles and hair :/ 

How many had guessed that this is what the title refers to? I bet you had guessed that it was a metaphor! I sure did. 

 2017-02-18 23:33:37 +0000 UTC View Post

... it's raining again.

Miku from Fatal Frame 3! 

It rains a lot in that game and Miku complains about it. Now when we get a rare rainy season in Los Angeles, I hear her reed-thin voice, trembling out those words...

I bought a new art program, some say it beat Photoshop for digital comic book work, and at least a few artists whose work I a...