{"id":7290,"date":"2020-03-09T21:55:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2020-03-09T22:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T02:05:40","slug":"from-the-sketchbook-dogfighting-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"From the Sketchbook: Dogfighting Dogs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m certainly the five billionth person to do drawings of dog pilots (when they “dogfight” they’re literally dogs!! Get it?!) but for whatever reason, I recently wound up doing a batch of quick watercolors of dogs in WWII-era pilot gear. Well, “for whatever reason” isn’t entirely accurate; the reason is at least partially that I had just watched the recent documentary, Spitfire<\/em>, about the WWII fighter plane of the same name. (Streaming on Amazon Prime<\/a> btw. Watch it!)<\/p>\n

So, here’re a few dogs:<\/p>\n

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But, hey, when I went to get pictures of these from my sketchbook, I remembered I’d done a couple of cats too! So, here they are:<\/p>\n

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If your first thought on seeing those was, “Hey, that’s kinda like MAUS<\/em>, where the various factions are depicted as different animals,” that was pretty much a thought I had as well–except what came to mind was one of my fave “funny animal” comics, Apocalypse Meow<\/em> (or Cat Shit One<\/em>, as it’s known in Japan). Sadly out of print for ages here in the U.S., it’s a war comic with antro characters set in Vietnam. <\/p>\n

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Anyway, I like those cat and dog WWII characters, but I doubt I’ll ever do anything with them. I’m in the middle of a military\/war book at the moment (Four-Fisted Tales<\/em>) and when that’s done, I’m going to jump back on my antro animals book (In the Weeds<\/em>), so I’ve kinda got both the “military” and the “animal characters” bit on the roster already.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, those images were done with a materials combination I just recently started fooling with and very much like: watercolor, then finished with carbon pencil<\/a> (and a bit of gouache for highlights). Here, for example, is a recent drawing of an alien I did using the same technique:<\/p>\n

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I’m certainly the five billionth person to do drawings of dog pilots (when they “dogfight” they’re literally dogs!! Get it?!) but for whatever reason, I recently wound up doing a batch of quick watercolors of dogs in WWII-era pilot gear. Well, “for whatever reason” isn’t entirely accurate; the reason is at least partially that I … <\/p>\n

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