Dave Davenport (dogspunk)

Burial of the Rats pg 34

I had mentioned earlier that I needed to insert a new page with more of an establishing shot of the 3-walled clearing shanty in the early part of the story, and the enormous wardrobe would need to be included in it. 

The first couple of read-throughs I didn't really realize the nature of this beast... it's said to be mayb...

Burial of the Rats pg 33

Damn, sorry I took a week off from this and did the little "gaslight" comic*. 

Oh this was a tough panel. I struggled a bit with it but the days away from it made it easy to finish once I came back to it.

First page...

gaslighting (2 of 2)

Yea, so here is the rest.

From the day after the election, I had people unfriend me in droves, but not before shouting "I hope you are happy!" at me first. I've had people I dearly love call me a traitor. And I've had enough of it. I can't go a few hours without seeing someone blame Sanders or his supporters for Trump. I knew ...

gaslighting (1 of 2)

***Updated*** now with fewer grammar and spelling errors! 

Can you guys read this? I may have to reformat this to make it legible. I wanted to make it as short as possible, but that may not work with the text crammed in there like this.

Anyways, this isn't beating a dead horse here. It's in response to th...

Burial of the Rats pg 32

Again with the researches!

I now know 100% more about pontoon bridges than I did last week. Also, drawing tiny silhouettes is h a r d. 

First page is HERE. 

2017-02-04 00:39:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Burial of the Rats pg 31

 Hey all! 

I was up for an alternate juror slot, but was dissmissed by the prosecution. Fine by me. I'd like to be a juror on a trial, but this one sounded particularly difficult, which was why they took 3 days and went through 2 groups of 50 jurors to get a panel. Maybe next time. 

This is the final turni...

My civics duties

Hey all, I'm at jury duty today. Hopefully I won't get picked, because it's set to be a long trial. I'll hopefully have a new page of "Rats" up tonight!

meet the artist

so this is a thing and I wanted to be a part of it, too. 

did I miss anything?

Burial of the Rats pg 30

Woo Hoo! I ended up getting a tattoo from our guest artist last weekend. One of the perks of being a tattoo artist is trading work with fellow artists.  Aiden has a lovely cartoony style that I immediately fell in love with, and he was the 2nd person to ever come into my shop and recognize the Daimajin painting I did... so ...

character pin-up WIP

Dave Zelman chose to be drawn into Rats as a chiffonier, so this is a work in progress of his character, who is one of the eldster soldiers chasing Chauncey. I need to work on the hands a bit, especially the left one. And it's a little strange... he looked like Dave before I scruffied him up. 

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Hey look what I managed to bang out today! Woo hoo! 

It was a little distracting to have a guest artist in the shop today, a big gay irish bear who does really cool work and likes a lot of the same stuff I geek out over. Lot's of fun convo. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to get a piece from him while he's here, though I reall...

Stray Bullet layouts...

Hey there, I know I've fallen behind on posting Burial...

The end is in sight, but I've lost some steam for it. Perhaps I should have taken a break from it at the mid-point. I've got the sketches all done for it, but have been dragging on doing the last few panels.

I guess it's my bi-weekly self-doubt regarding ...

painting update #1

Hey me Droogs! 

I finally got this painting off the ground. The composition is slightly different from the original sketch since the dimensions of the canvas are different... slightly vertical rather than slightly horizontal. I also didn't use the sketch for reference. I have drawn this same picture three times in my life...

Burial of the Rats pg 28

This fort is (Fort de) Bicetre. There are  a number of these around the capitol, built at various times in the nineteenth century. They were built farther and farther out from the city, as artillery range increased, to deny invaders places to point their canons towards Paris.

Stoker places the City of Dust in Montrouge, w...

Burial of the Rats pg 27

So thankfully we lose the butcher's axe at this point. It was a great graphic symbol of the grisly danger our hero is in, but seriously, if it stayed in the story any longer it would grow to be too large for any of the eldsters to wield. A butcher's axe is less than a meter in length, a pole axe is up to (and sometimes over) two...

Now we gots POLLLLLLSSSSSS

For my first poll on Patreon (using a poll script, rather than just asking for comments) I'm going to ask a question I had been pondering a bit and thought I'd throw out to my patrons... 

Those who may have been paying close attention to my lay-outs over the years may have noticed that with few exceptions I have played ve...

Burial of the Rats pg 26

Just how did Chauncey manage to not lose his hat thus far?

What do they say in screen/play writing? Something about if there's a gun used in the final act, it needs to be introduced in the first act? To be fair, hats were ubiquitous until fairly modern times, so I suppose this could be overlo...

#werk

I'm not always talkative, but if there's one place where it makes me happy to be, it's here 😺

Burial of the Rats pg.2 (redraw)

So now that I have a character sheet for Chauncey, I'll be tweaking pages to make his contenance more consistant. This page was pretty close already, but Alice needed to be researched and redrawn as an Edwardian Lady, rather than my mental image of one ;)

Burial of the Rats pg 25

This page I originally drew from the opposite perspective. Both show the fork in the canal/stream, but the one I ultimately discarded showed the group of Old Republic soldiers cutting across the marshy area to vector in on the other bank. I felt it too visually similar to the last 2 pages and thought a rear view closer in on our...

2 new shirts

Did you know I have a Society 6 store?

It's true, I do. 

Follow this link for the discount! 

I made 2 new shirts availabe there today: 1 is a mandala design I made...

Oy! I crossed a line

I had to do a bit of fashion research today for dear ol' Chauncey and learned a lot more than I thought I ever would on the wardrobe of the average upperclass Londoner circa 1900. I'd been thinking I need to do a character sheet for the big C (something I should get in the habit of doing), so here it comes. This here is a peek a...

Burial of the Rats pg 24

Happy New Year, Droogies! 

Happy Hogmanay  as well, since we are working up the pagan traditions. Basically New Year's anyways, I like it. Plus it evokes the image of many hogs... 

The pages are definitely getting more cinematic...

Burial of the Rats pg 23

So much research into the environs just outside of Paris' southern edge circa 1900, and there's so much I just had to guess at unless I want to track down a historian who could answer my questions. I'm pretty certain I've gotten the topography down, but any information whether windmills were still in use in this era was effectiv...

Repulsion

If you've never seen this film, get on it. 

My buddy William lent it to me, and I went in knowing nothing about it. 

At first I thought Catherene Deneuve wasn't a very engaging actress, but soon I realized just how good she is. It's a quiet movie, in tone, but each whisper is a thunderbolt because of it.  ...

Burial of the Rats pg 22

Okay so this is my favorite so far...

I guess I have these images in my head and when I pull them off successfully I get all excited. 

This is where Stoker begins doing a few crazy things with the story, from a writer's perspective. For instance, it's during this crawl through the mud that the author fi...

Patron Pin-Up!

Like I promised, the woolly shambler pledge level (and above) patrons not only get drawn into a story, but get a pin-up of their character as well!

This is the first, which I am posting with permission of the patron. William (rather, Pup Likket) appeared prominantly in Damaged (from pages 13-15 mostly). 

I have one ...

Burial of the Rats pg 21

Merry xmas eve, me Droogies! 

I'm not a christian, but I do believe in celebrating the holiday, just with the knowledge of it's pagan origins. The church purposely adopted the date and rituals of the winter holiday with the intent of folding the heathens into the flock, but we can remember it for what it was and undo thei...

Look what Krampus brought!

Did NOT expect thank you gifts from a patron! Thanks, Michael! Really made my day 😜

BONUS preview!

Today marks the end of my Pagan Pledge Drive. Though not as successful as I'd hoped, I did pick up a handful of patrons and that is very, very good! 

I wanted to give something as a thank you here, so here's a peek from an upcoming page. I'm very happy with this one, I hope you like it too!

Happy Solstice 2016