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I had a lot of fun drawing this page, and it was a lot of work, but totally worth it. This is my favorite bear attack so far. Poor Eric.
When I needed to draw a bear running at full speed and biting into a flailing dude, I decided I needed to use Poser. I just needed to be able to mess with the pose and find something that worked, so I did.
yes, that bear is eating a naked child.
Don’t think I do this for every pose. Just the tough ones. This one was just so weird I felt I needed the extra help. Poser comes in pretty handy for this kind of thing if you can find a good enough model. The bear model that comes with it has been very helpful for me, even though it does not look great to me in the program, the proportions work to lay out a template so that I can apply my own understanding of bear anatomy (especially in the face) and make it work. This has been really helpful when drawing bears running from a 45 degree angle.
Of course I mainly posted it because it’s hilarious to me. I used the little kid model and stretched his arms legs a bit to give him something similar to the build of a skinny 20-something hipster. I think it worked.
Up next, chased by bears. See you then!
Ethan
oh crap, bear chase! Finally I’m first again!
Awesome page. I feel like this is the broadest scale of action we’ve seen. We see it from all angles, high speed bear chase sort of thing. Excellent work!
I also like that Nigel in panel 3 looks like a zombie from the Axe Cop world.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the comic, but I am kind of not feeling all of the hipster main characters.
Seeing hipsters get eaten by bears is what makes me come back every week.
How did the hipster know where to catch all of the trout?
He knew about them way before they went mainstream!
(But he was shortly after eaten by a bear)
This comic is made for people who don’t like hipsters, like me. It is about hipsters being de-hipstered by a world totally hostile to being a hipster. A world over run by insane bears.
See, I think it’s a comic about bears terrorizing everything. The fact that hipsters get eviscerated is just an added bonus.
It’s that too, but it focuses on hipsters.
I don’t hate hipsters, but they’re fun to make jokes about!
And really, the REAL world for most of its history. The world only recently got non-hostile enough for hippsterism on any kind of scale.
Since when did neo-hippies become hipsters?
I use the term very loosely… hipster is a catch all for the jaded, spoiled American culture in the 20-35 year old age range.
They don’t deserve any better.
(46-year-old Bergerjacques raises his walker and cane in a salute, then throws rocks at the kids in his lawn) I can appreciate that. Any generation that demands that I venerate Curt Cobain and Nirvana and appreciate them for making Seattle a center of musical creativity deserves to be heartily eviscerated by Bears. I also blame them for forcing a rebellious reaction among the current high school/college generation to raise club dance music as the dominant form of pop music in this country in reaction to naval-gazing grunge. Thank you, Hipsters. Thanks a lot. Now you Bears – sic’em.
These are Triathlon bears. Anything on the ground won’t escape them. Fly, you fools!
just you wait
Watch out for the aear bears! (“air bears”)
Strangely enough, none of the bears seem to have any of their paws on the ground. I think we might already be dealing with hover bears here.
I’d like to see some polar bears! Due to the fact I live in Alaska.
Who wants to bet that under extreme circumstances someone will light the fuel tank in the car and blow it up?
My money is on them lighting the drums on the trailer and then cutting that loose first.
I love this comic. My only comment, besides the loving part, would be that Joel and Gogs look completely flat in the last panel. Then again, I can’t imagine how much work it takes to illustrate this, so I’ll shut up now.
haha yeah they look like window decals. That mist have been fatigue. This page wore me out.
Alas, poor NPC.
Love Auctionbear!
Dang. I was wrong on my guess they’d rescue just a piece of somebody. Great scene, though. Good sense of speed.
Can they run any faster, or are they bearly keeping up?
puns, yes!
The suspense is unbearable!
Panel 4 is great! The angle, energy, and emotions are all really vivid! It looks like you’ve got a camera crew in a helicopter following them. I really like how you use different angles to tell the story. Bravo.
Absolutely! The bear action is just amazing here. I knew we were in to some good stuff, but damn, great page.
Favorite page so far! Killdeer causes a landslide split seconds after the hippie wagon passes, allowing them to escape the pursuing bears!
Also I can’t wait to see the character profiles for Eric and Phillip
I’d just like to be the first to say R.I.P. Davy Jones in the Bearmageddon comments section. 🙁
This comic defiinitely upped my day. I loved the Poser bonus, that made me laugh.
Hi, Philip!
I think Keller turned Caucasian. 🙂
Panel 4 is absolutely fantastic.
Is it Friday yet?
Based on the diet of these bears so far, I have a feeling Starbuck’s is going to get some new customers.
Hey, it looks like the bearmageddon has begun.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/grizzly-bear-charges-alaskan-tourists-video-010559736.html
I’ve been lurking here and on AxeCop since forever. This is the first time I checked the characters page — Brilliant.
Thank you for what you do. I can’t wait till this is available in print/for my ipad.
Just started reading this comic the other day, loving it so far. Great story and awesome artwork. Couldn’t help but notice that the fuel tanks tend disapear evry now and then. Im going to stop nit picking because there is so much thats great about this.
haha thanks, but I have to disagree on the fuel tanks. It is not that they disappear, it is just that I put the van at an angle whee they can’t be seen whenever possible because they are a pain to draw. I have a 3D model set up for the van with trailer and barrels, so it is pretty hard to forget to add them, but I do angle the van so they are hidden.
What do you use for the model? Sketchup?
yep!
Such an awesome program!
Bye, Eric.
I’ve always felt like I wish I could make some quick 3d models to use.. maybe clay or something.. the problem is regular pose models wouldn’t help much with the kind of crazy shizzle I tend to draw.. but I feel good just in general knowing artists like you use pose models.
Love the comic, but panel 4 threw me off. When you’re holding on to something really tight, and it is torn from your grip, your hand forms a fist (or, at least, mine does?). Just a mistake? Did they actually throw him “under the bus” so to speak? Is it a comic visualization thing (oh no! Open hand!)? Or maybe just showing how powerless they are?
Like I said, super cool stuff. I really love how the characters are just boiling over with bullshit and nonsense, but you let the world make the counterargument without a single word.
The fuel trailer is like Optimus Prime’s trailer!!! it goes into a pocket dimension!!! lol
Love this page. The action and angles are awesome. So much fuel to explode in that last panel!!!
You would bring up Transformers wouldn’t you Bassbot? Have to catch up soon.
Haha gotta love redshirts.
I would hate to find out that the ultimate baddy of this comic is Winnie the Pooh and he’s told his bear friends that humans are full of honey.
Or would that be too awesome…I can’t DECIDE!!!
I guess that is another unanswerable question.
Watch this space…
Ahhh wait not this space cause its just my typing. I meant the comic space…
Damn now I’ve gone and screwed that up…
called it!
What are Kodiaks doing that far south?
decided it’s a bit cold up north, less meat on the hipsters
AND IM SURE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ALL THE BEAR-ELLS THEYRE PULLING AMIRITE ETHAN
Noble blond-haired plaid dude! Noooooo!
Totally called it. Revel in my powers of obvious observations.
I still think the final baddy of this comic is gonna be Teddy and he’s doing all this because he never got his honey… or something similar.
hehehe cool