Comfortably Ejected Pelican

Whoa! Three designs in one week!? That's right, I sat down last night and decided that this needed to happen, and it did. So now, you have all day to enjoy this design (not as much as that pelican, but hey).

So, when the words "Comfortably Ejected Pelican" came up in the generator I almost literally did a spit take. Alright, so it was "Afterward" instead of "Comfortably." They're my designs, I can change the wording if I want.    The original thought was just to have a pelican strapped into an ejector seat, but I drew the chair a bit large and a bit too squishy, so I decided to roll with and change the word to "Comfortably" and have that pelican enjoy some time on his favorite flame-bottomed recliner.

I wasn't sure I'd be able to draw a pelican, but I took a look at some illustrations on Google Images and got the basic concept down...I think the only distinguishing feature you really need to get right on a pelican is the beak. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

This will be going to The Oatmeal's new linking site BearFood. You can also check it out and join in the conversation on the Facebook page or go over to YouTube and check out today's video log about the piece (and anything that comes to my mind, really).  Links are below the signature, which is coming now:

-Rob Signed Off

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Experimentally Troubled Void - Sans Words

Alright, I've heard back from a few people on this, and they like the idea of the design without the words. So here it is.

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Experimentally Troubled Void

Last night's design, due to popular vote (of 4 people), was Experimentally Troubled Void.  I know it doesn't look like much, and I know there is a bunch of text to get to the heart of the three random words, but the more I look at it, the more I like it...especially that little bow tie.

I went into this design with some small amount of trepidation; out of the three designs available to vote on, this was the one that I had no ideas for. When I finally came up with an idea, it was really dumb. It involved a voided check being put through a number of scientific tests...but the design would have still relied on some text to get the punchline across I think...or maybe I really just wanted to do something like a single frame comic. Who knows?

Once again I drew this in pencil, then inked the outlines in pen, scanned the image into Photoshop and began coloring it. I was almost done when Photoshop locked up about five minutes. I had the inclination to start sobbing dejectedly onto my keyboard, but when I looked back up, Photoshop had decided to continue working and I decided to save it right away. Seems I haven't learned my lesson.

If you haven't seen it already, I started up a (hopefully) daily vlog on YouTube to talk a little bit more about the designs (really, I think its because I like showing off my ugly face, bad haircut, and less-than-grizzly beard). You can check that channel out at  http://www.youtube.com/3randomwordsdesigns. There will be a video about today's design going up...today.

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Nervously Changing Turtle

I wanted to get this design up before Midnight so I could still claim it was up on Monday. Check back tomorrow for more information about the design.

I can't believe I finally got a new design up...

Edit: You can vote for Wednesday's design on the Three Random Words Facebook Page by going here: https://www.facebook.com/ThreeRandomWordsDesigns

While you're there, hit that "Like" button. I enjoy seeing the numbers go up...it's a thing...don't judge me.

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Vigorously Programmed End

Procrastination, it's a killer.

The Wifelette went to bed around 9 last night, so I didn't get started on this until about 9:10pm. Maizy (who we call Poo Face sometimes, okay, well I call her that all the time) kept walking over my USB extension cable and turning off my pen tablet, which ate up time as I had to fight to get the thing working again. All of that, and you get exactly what you see above. It's not so bad, right? Okay, it is, but hey, I got it done.

So, at first, I started drawing the keyboard with my Wacom Graphire 3 and I thought to myself, "wow...this is really bad."  I'd like to completely blame the fact that I was using a really small pen tablet to draw on a 42 inch screen, but I'm pretty sure that most of it comes from my shaky drawing ability.  I just decided to keep doing it and then I started coloring it and I thought, "well, okay, it looks kinda cartoony, I'll go with it." Then I bled the color outside of the actual image of the keyboard and thought that it looked nice.

Once I finished with the monitor and started doing the shading, I felt a little better about the design (because it was around 10 o'clock and I wanted to be done). I tried to draw a blurry hand typing on the keyboard really fast, but it wasn't turning out well, so the post it notes are my attempt to capture the "vigorously" part of the phrase.  I did have some other ideas for this, but I went with the one that I first started drawing.

I showed it to the Wifelette this morning and she didn't burst into peels of laughter. She actually said that the cartoony look really worked with the colors. That's enough to make me proud.

Anyway, leave a comment with ideas for what you might have drawn for this phrase...or anything really, I'm not picky with my social engagement.

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Heavily Promote Film

Remember when you had to buy consumable memory for cameras that had to be loaded into the back and couldn't be touched by the sun? Dumbbells do, and they want all of us to know that they love film! If you love it as well and have millions of little black sun-defying tubes squirreled away in storage, leave a comment in support of this fifty pound picketing free weight.

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Delicately Doodling Invader

The alien overlords are here and they...are...what? Are they drawing flowers?  Where are the laser death rays and the probe-tastic abductions? Guess we should count ourselves lucky!

All humor aside, thanks for viewing the first design for Three Random Words.  If you like the design (or hate it, as I suppose could happen as well) feel free to leave a comment!

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