I’ve been trying to work on a design for a Chomps t-shirt, and I’m starting to come to a conclusion that it might be too difficult. Can one really draw the world’s angriest dog as to satisfy people’s expectations?
Anyway, I’m no artist, but I made some sketches of what I think I want – Chomps growling and just about to burst – and then did a bad scan of those sketches.
Poorly done scan of poorly drawn sketch 1
Poorly done scan of poorly drawn sketch 2
Feh. I already knew I couldn’t pull this off, the question is it worth risking paying an artist to make an attempt. Because, if Chomps isn’t kick ass cool, it’s all for naught.
So, do you think I should still pursue the Chomps t-shirt or work on another?
Keep working Frank, you can do it!
Just try not to make chops look so constipated…
Sorry.. I’m Bad. Bad me…
I am such a dippy-doodle, Chomps, Chomps, not Chops!
Duh! But He does look a little irregular..
Oh, God.. Sorry…
Looks a lot scarier than my wife’s ‘shit for brains’ Dalmation.
I want a space-based laser shirt with a big target on the back and a message that says “if I were a terrorist I’d be worried.” Or, you know, something like that…
You drew some nice Evil Pigs there Frank. And yet it’s still better than my “artwork”
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Stick to the writing Frank my boy, art is not your strong hand. But what the hell do I know about art, I used to own “black light” art.
I dont know why, but everytime I picture Chomps, he is huge and has his latest victim in his mouth.
Maybe you could have Rummy holding his leash in the background, saying “thatta boy”.
Oh, how about a series of shirts, one has Chomps munching down on Kerry, Chirac, Noam Chomsky, Bin Laden, etc.
Forget Chomps, have a Buck the Marine t-shirt instead.
How about for the space-based laser T-Shirt, a little spin on a previous comment…
“If I were a Terrorist, I’d be DEAD by now!”
How about a contest to see who can design the best Chomps T-shirt? There’ve got to be some artistically skilled right-wingers somewhere.
The winner gets credit (aka free advertising) for the artwork on the shirts themselves.
Personally, I think the anger of Chomps is hard to capture in a 2-d drawing that can’t have dripping saliva and blood coming from it. Frank, just put it on the back burner for a while, start work on a new t-shirt, and come back to it when you have an inspiration about how to make chomps look truly angry.
(Perhaps a Know Thy Enemy: John F-ing Kerry shirt is in order?)
Chomps. I think of the black/white Mastiff, meets the kingsize Rottweiller and then there’s this bit of ice blue eyes…yano, the kind that freeze prey. I am not, however, an artist. I like the leash idea with a fuzzy Rummy to the back left, caption over right, Chomps center, some remaining tissue hanging off the teeth…?
I think something like a shadow of Chomps’ upper body (head, gaping jaws) casting over a shredded terrorist handbook or something would look cool. You don’t want to go overboard with the cheesy “Hey, I’m a big mean dog. Grr!” thing. If people look at the shirt and see this overly violent, mean looking animal, they might get the idea that you/the site are some sort of extremist. Or is that the point?
How about a SarahK t-shirt? 😉
it still looks like a pig to me, are you sure you didn’t mean to draw a pig?
Chomps the pig
I like the “Know thy enemy–JohnF’nKerry” idea. If only I had money to spend!!! (I’m saving for a decent flag before the 4th.)
Your sketches aren’t bad–just trying to give direction to the more cartoon inclined….I like the bloodshot eyes. Obviously, Chomps has been overworked lately! (Just a few more months Chomps, and you might be able to take a short nap.) ;o)
Some things and characters are left to the imagination.
It looks like you would have to come perilously close to Emperor Misha’s Rottie logo, Frank…
Or you could have black paw prints moving close on the front of the Tee. And a broken leash and collar lying in a blood sneared oozing mess on the back.
Above the name:
CHOMPS!
Just an idea.
Imperial Wassailier: Red.
Frank,
That is a freakin pig. A really angry pig. But still a pig. I never pictured Chomps with droopy ears and a flat snout. He needs pointed ears, wrinkles on the forhead go from side to side not up and down, and have the remains of some body part hanging from his mouth. That is the Chomps I know.
Cox & Forkum draw a pretty mean mean dog.
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000358.html
Maybe they’d help you out.
Conservative_D, your pic looks like Le Filmmakeur Michael Moore, without his high-fashion spectacles.
I want a chomps shirt, I will buy one! Those weren’t bad Frank, but by no means are they good for a professional t-shirt. I don’t think it should just be his face though, I want the whole chomps, tearing apart the atmosphere because it made him angry.
buck the marine shirt!
have you tried a profile shot?
those aren’t bad drawings, especially for a self-professed non-artist.
Sarah, you won the contest. You don’t need to suck up anymore 🙂
And that is what a dog’s nose looks like head on, so there to all those people who thinks he looks like a pig.
Humm . . . I always pictured Chomps in a Terminator outfit. Either he is artificial or Cerberus is his father.
No Terminator Chomp for me, but perhaps even weirder. When I read about Chomps tearing apart everything in sight, I can’t imagine him in any other form than this one:
http://www.vincentguastiniproductions.com/langoliers.html
The movie was kinda lame, but I have always been fond of those sharp-toothed monsters who enjoyed destroying everything they bite.
The mechanical jaws of the digging machines in The Matrix: Revolutions reminded it to me too.
Frank, you could maybe search for a picture of a growling dog on Google and photoshop it with ‘find edge’ or ‘trace contour’ or another effect. It may help. Some of the Chomps pics in the Peace Gallery may be usable.
I like it just the way it is. But I can have my daughter tweek it for you. She is a natural born artist
So, Frank … was this a transparent attempt to get complimented on the quality of your amateur artwork, or a transparent attempt to get one of your highly-motivated ronin to come up with a kick-ass cool Chomps drawing for you?
Maybe neither, if I can’t figure out which. Or both.
Oh, and by the way that’s not bad for an amateur pencil sketch. I’ll see if I can’t come up with something decent myself.
Frank-
Not bad. I am a right-wing artist (one of the few) and I think that these preliminary sketches are decent.
Pitbull????!!!??
They sort of look like pigs so that might explain some of the feedback.
Try to layer the sketch (ears, eyes, nose, mouth) it would look more 3-dimensional.
keep up the good work.
I sometimes draw to help picture something, but my artistic skills are quite atrophied that it took me a long while to figure how to show an intense growl. Best I could figure was eyes bugging out and lots of tensions lines.
Also, Chomps is a rottweiler, so, if I colored it, the muzzle and the rest of the head black except for one small patch of tan above each eye.
And yes, this is a pathetic attempt to see if a reader while take a crack at drawing him right (I’m not dumb enough to think these would get me compliments).
I’ve always pictured Chomps as this massive beast with great musculature, pointy eary, and a wrinkly snarling snout. I run by this dog on my nightly run. I might be able to come up with something.
$@* I meant ears.
Looks like Al Gore
Frank,is Chomps your dog?If so,pay tribute to him by honoring him/her w/ a shirt.My 14 + y.o. dog is very soon, going to have to be “put down”.I’ve known her since she was 1 day old,& it looks like I’m going to be holding her when the vet delivers the coup de grace.I’m NOT looking forward to that.Honor them while they’re around for you to enjoy.DO THE SHIRT.
Terese Heinz in an interview the other day said something like “I would like to be a dog, dogs are nice”.
I assume she has never met Chomps.
Shouldn’t Chomps look as if he’s bursting/tearing through the t-shirt itself? If he’s the world angriest dog? He usually springs the surprise bursting attack thing on people. You know, like when you’re walking peacefully along the sidewalk near a midsize fence and suddenly…………….
WWWHHHHRRRRRAAAAAARRRR,WHRAAR,WHRAAR,WHRAAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sure you could draw the shreds into the picture, around a profile shot of Chomps bursting through with both of his front legs clearing the hole, his shoulders is where the tearing tatters should be placed.
Maybe this wouldn’t be a large close up of the head but it might convey more of the true essence of Chomps. Anybody like?
Frank, i already got paid for the modeling, i don’t suck up anymore. you can take most of what i say from here out as sincere.
Colt Springfield: You will be doing your dog the highest honor by being there at the end, props to you, man!! Been there, done that with my own “Chomps”, who was a bad ass Shar-Pei named Rufus.
On a different note, I think Chomps on the T-Shirt should have a half chewed UN helmet at his feet.
I would think the answer would be obvious. Hold a contest! Let someone else draw Chomps.
Chomps needs his UN peacekeeper helmet.
Chewed up UN peacekeeper helmet!
I always thought it would’ve neat if he had the UN Peacekeeping helmet on, and it said something like “World’s Angriest UN Peacekeeper.”
something like this?
http://www.aardman.com/wallaceandgromit/fla/wg.html