Water is tricky to draw. First, you turn on both the hot water and the cold and then stick your hand under it. When it feels just right, you plug the drain. When enough water has run into the tub, you sit down, and inevitably you’ll feel like you’re being boiled alive. Water is also tricky to depict. I was getting better at it when this cartoon ran in 1995. The wave in the first panel doesn’t look very convincing, but the foam in the last three panels looks about right. When drawing water (with a pen), less is more. Water is about negative space, what you don’t draw. That’s the way it is for me, anyway.
Wavering
By Jimmy Johnson
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248 responses to “Wavering”
Regarding yesterday’s strip, and the apparent non-resolution. Weren’t we just talking about Orson Welles and how much more effective the suspense (and horror) was when it was left to the imagination?
Jean dear, not to be crude, but there are several other bodily locations where you could get a ring installed other than your navel. Not all of them as socially acceptable to display as one in your belly button, however. 😉
Sure wish I were going to be in the area, sand.
GR6, problem with those locations is they cause TSA to go crazy.
Debbe…no , I didn’t even notice there were comments. Now I’m too scared to look! 🙂
I have a good friend that is nicknamed “Captain America” as he runs races and even training runs in flag patterned shorts, bandanas and even his lyrca tights will incorporate the design. He is a veteran and has many family members that served.
I know a few people who thing that he is just drawing attention to himself and others who think that he is desecrating the flag. He told me that he loves what the flag represents (freedom) and that is what he is calling attention to. I guess one man’s desecration is another man’s way of showing his love for his country.
TSA is often crazy.
Silly men! Buy the eighteen karat gold rings, studs, and bars. Besides, gold says class. 😉
Or should I have said, “TSA IOC”?
Trucker: Bad Astronomy is a good site, in my Favorites, but I didn’t think to check there. I will fwd the link to a couple of my blind copy groups. Peace, emb
Ghost, as someone who has had to read medical charts for those who got the piercings in “other areas” I would recommend against them. Most of those are bad places to get an infection from the open area left when piercing. Stay natural!
David in Austin – Maybe so, but I’m still holding out for Wiley making a surprise appearance, or at least a cloud of Roadrunner dust and a very confused Alro. Girl can dream right?
Good morning, Villagers! Myself, I don’t have any jewelery that isn’t at least 10K gold, and no white gold. I hae a dark tan this time of year and gold just goes with it. Other times of the year I have a airbrush tan, courtesy of my stylist, who is the only person I will get nekkid in front of. Don’t care for gems, either..
Lily said “nekkid”. 🙂
No, not advocating piercings. As I said yesterday, I don’t care for piercings, other than for earrings. And I know even those can sometimes cause problems. As I’ve often told female friends, I don’t see why one would want to punch a hole in a perfectly good (insert intimate body part of your choice).
I’ve been trying to call the NSA to see if their code-breakers have deciphered “RJS TBW PLSG TCEV, OYL”, but for some reason I’m having problems getting a phone number for them. Information keeps telling me something about there being no such agency.
1-888-NSA-0000
Really Just Silly To Begin With Pickles Love Sugared Greens Tomato Catsup Extra Vegetables, On Your Left
Well, I guess I still need the decoder ring….. 15 boxtops? Hmmm. Would someone take me to the store, please? 🙂
Ghost: Notice I didn’t say the NA word 😛
Oyl, he’s getting texts from Olive. Better watch out for Popeye!
Besides, I have to get nekkid to get airbrushed. Who wants to ruin a good set of underwear?
But Lily, I LIKE the “NA word”. 😉
Might ruin your underwear, but then you’d have a “tan” that would, as Arlo put it, serve to highlight the more interesting parts. You know, I’ve been wondering, when you get spray tanned….uh, never mind.
Happy 239th Birthday, US Army. You don’t look a day over 200. 🙂
I don’t wanna highlight anything. 😛 I just want to look good in my clothes. This time of year, if I’m not tan, I just look yellow-brown-orange, which is just gross. All those girls that get orange in tanning beds are suckers IMO
Oops! Forgot to consult Bad Astronomy to verify that the Army’s 239th birthday really does fall on today.
I know tanning beds will give women the skin texture of an orange peel, but I didn’t realize it would actually turn them orange in color.
They do, though. Gross me out