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Published: 2004-11-18 22:14:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 4720; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 232
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...Without a doubt, my favorite childhood 'escape to some wierd world' book...And i am a huge dork because that escape was all about words and learning, wasn't it!? DORKTASTIC!
Anyway, ooooold art from last year. i finally found it sitting on a dusty CD. It was intended as the cover for a series of drawings illustrating the book....i did them as a project in my Illustration class.
The -only- art class here at good ole UNT that i really enjoyed.
If Vernon Fisher ever catches wind of this, i want him to burn in hell. Him and his goddamned Ron Perlman ape eyebrows and his high falutin postmodern art...
Yeah...i'm a bit bitter...*seethe*
anyroad, enjoy!
P.S That watchdog looks like my Hee-Haw dog.
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Come on and
Ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing
That might be a load
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing
That might be a load
Come on, ease on down, ease on down, down the road
Pick your left foot up
When your right foot's down
Come on lets keep movin'
Don't you lose no ground
You just keep on keepin'
On the road that you choose
Don't you give up walkin'
'Cause you gave up shoes, no
Ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing
That might be a load
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
'Cause there maybe times
When you think you lost your mind
And the steps you're takin'
Leave you three, four steps behind
But the road you're walking
Might be long sometimes
You just keep on steppin'
And you'll just be fine, yeah
Ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing
That might be a load
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Well there maybe times
When you wish you wasn't born
And you wake one morning
Just to find your courage gone
But just know that feeling
Only last a little while
You stick with us
And we'll show you how to smile, yeah
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The humbug looks like hes got a trunk
This should have been the cover
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Oh man... I just love this so much... your DESIGNS and the EXPRESSIONS and all...
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lol, it was still a good book anyhow XD enough to read more than once even
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WAARGHHHHH WHY WAS THIS NOT IN MY FAVORITES. WHYYYYYYYY~
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I DUNNO. BUT THANK YOU ANYWAY <8 ]
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This is so good! It's a different twist. I love that book!
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*scowls* some retarded asswit who taught painting at my class. he was one of those 'i have a gallery in New York, so i am godlike in my abilities' types. but his paintings were just like everyone else's: retarded.
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sounds like my art teacher.
"I've vbeen selected to show my work in an international exhibit in china."
"Um, isn't that because you're the only one in the country who submitted an entry and they needed one from New Zealand?"
"*with fingers in ears* lalalala I can't hear you over the sound of my awesomeness*
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HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS
This has to be one of my top 10 favorite movies...
*searches in back of mind for a quote*
How about "I am". It's the shortest sentence I know.
Bahaha... I simply love this, and I must learn some of your secrets!!
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it was totally blinding you with LEARNING!
haha...see, for some reason, when i first saw your character, i was like..."DODECAHEDRON!!!" because he was the best character in the book, hands down....i was sad that he wasn't in the movie T.T or at least, i don't remember him in the movie O.o
anyway, thanks man...i dig that someone else actually KNOWS what i am talking about XD
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Dodecahedron! He was in the movie! And he was like the guardian of some cave... and do you know what Milo had to do to get in?
ANSWER MATH QUESTIONS!!! 
But yeah... seems Hex was slightly inspired by that?? hmm...
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Lol, but I liked her better in the book.
"Yes, it was delicious, wasn't it? It's the specialty of the kingdom-subtraction stew."
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he WAS? dude i must have blocked it. he was my fave.....XD
Him and Chroma. because Chroma the Great WAS AWESOME.
haha...inspiration is everywhere.
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Neat.
The Phantom Tollbooth was a lot of fun. Easily one of my favorite books from when I was younger - up there with Narnia and Heinlein.
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Oh rock on ^_^ usually, i say that book and people are like "what?!"
this is one of my favorite pieces because i dig that book hardcore ^_^ thank you so much man!
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No problem.
Too many people glaze over and go "duh?" when I mention the story as part of the "Childhood was cool, right?! Remember ____________?!" discussion. Kids these days! Too much subtraction stew!
ALL GLORY TO THE VALLEY OF SOUND
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Let's see...you got Milo, Watchdog, and Humbug.
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thanks so much man! yeah...the book is AWESOME! heehee...those shadows are just random monsters from his journey into the mountains of ignorance or something...^_^ kudos to you for knowing who was who!!! 
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I love this. There is not enough PTB art out there and to see it in your style is absolutly amazing. ^^
Long time no see, btw. ^^
-SN
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*sqwooosh*
SN! i thought you were out for the count man! *squee* thank you so much
yah man...you need to hand out on AIm more often, we are as two ships...passing in the night...and like, crashing or sinking or something....and i'm probably a skanky old towboat...but you get the picture ^_-
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Out for the count? Me? Not likely.
I've moved, permenantly I think, to SheezyArt. I feel I have much more freedom there. You should check it out as well. ^^
PTB rocks. Chuck Jones' version makes me smile a lot. ^^
I'm... always on AIM. O.O Are you sure you're useing my right S/N?
Look me up sometime. I want's to converse. ^^
-SN
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*hold up your hand in a sort of Rocky Balboa just won the fight way*
WE HAVE A WINNNNEEERRRR!!!!...or one who isn't out for the count, at least ^_^
Moved away from me!? you brazen hussy ^_- naw...i will check out your sheezy site!...i think i have a screen name there, but i was never able to use it...i AM rather retarded afterall...but i'll figure it out if it means i get to see your sweet sweet art....*boogie*
I love the cartoon...^_^ i can't get over those awesome expressions...especially the Humbug...he could look like one evil sonnofabitch when he smiled all huge.
Well, i have the OLD one...HF's screenname....did you change it? i'm still Otomo123....
*whimpers* i'm LOST!!! find me! ^_^
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aaahg!! *falls over dead* straight to the heart man!! yowza ^_^
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heheh! hows the uh...>_> <_< pic coming!
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*Get's visibly wet* You've officially made my day...I love this image as much as I love the book....very cool
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*hands you a hankie....a 'special' hankie. you know what i am talking about. special*
Thanks man ^_^ i thought about you when i found this actually...you being the only other person who has used this book in a...erm...daily conversation? does a journal entry count? har har! either way, thanks so much, i'm glad it made yer day ^_^
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*laughs* Thanks....I think I needed that "special" hankie...
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*laughs* This is so wild and lively, I love the red outline and speckles against the dark spookay-ness!
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*kwee*
thanks so much man! *bounce bounce* and i appreciate the wild and lively comment! that was exactly what i had hoped to acheive in it!
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okay, y'know what my favourite escapist cartoon was? freddy the frog, agent F.R.O.7. and that had nothing to do withy education, just the french! mwaha!
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*sniffs*
you had freddy? no FAIR...i had Muzzy. *grumbles* stupid muzzy...i HATE big hairy french speaking monsters from outerspace!!!
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oh man, muzzy freaked the shit out of me. he was animated in that really grainy, creepy style and just wanted to kill people.
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holy crap I read the Phantom Tollbooth more times that I can count when I was a wee lass. Of course I also grew up in a house with only educational programing and cartoons and had more books than I had friends (and you said YOU were dorktastic?).
my favorite escape from the world books were the Lioness Rampant series, Dragonmilk, and Animorphes (hides) ah, the solitude of the reading nerd.
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Sounds like me man...books were the BEST! they didn't stink, didn't break my stuff, didn't eat my food...damn...*looks over at roomate*
i should have more books....*musing*
heehee...did you watch alot of nature documentaries by......David Attenborough? he was the man....i can still hear him...calling....calling....calling...*s nicker*
hmmm...Dragonmilk...that sounds reaaaaally familiar....reading nerds are the best kind...we tend to be quiet and only speak when someone mentions a title we think we remember reading....
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David Attenborough rocks my socks. ROCKS THEM.
and as for Dragonmilk, it was about some chick trying to get these baby dragons back to their family after their mum and dad were slaughtered. It was pretty cool and was surprising deep and sad now that I think about it.
I also loved Wizard of Earthsea and the Merlin books. I was a sucker for dragons and magicy adventure I was.
I wish I lived around more book nerds. all the kids I knew said reading made their heads hurt. *~_~!*
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i know absolutely how ya feel jonny. some people with their amazingly meaningful art and ideas...grr. why can't everyone just do cartoons.
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i know, right!? *unintelligible noise of anger*
those bastards and their money...i'll show them, i'll have money TOO! AND cartoons!
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Ah, now this takes me back... I hardly see any art dedicated to this subject. In fact--... I can't say I ever really have, and that's why I love it! I'm the one who used to watch the Chuck Jones version of this old story far more than I had ever read the book, though I have to admit what with translation from story to screen they were both still pretty crazy. *g*
I just utterly adore how you did the watchdog, the face is just -perfect-. Such a nice tribute to such an insane story since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... Oh, and do beware the doldrums, would you? We're overpopulated here as it is. ^_^
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*laughs* naaw dude...the doldrums can ALWAYs use more people...
we got lots of nothing to do here!
kweeheee....^_^ the cartoon was great man...chuck jones can haunt me in my sleep...his art was always so...wicked? i dunno...but it was awesome! bah! you like the watchdoggie? hee...he's modled off of my own dog...ringer ears and all...ok, not really...but you can dig the artistic liberties, ne? ^_^ thank you so much ^_^!
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Awww, this is adorable! Very crazy and cartoony, but with menacing shadows in the background... Shades of Vasquez there, but only teeny slight ones... ^^ I like the kid, he looks so farkin happy!
Can't comment any further than that because ... uuuhhh ... that's one of the few bookd I didn't read... I'd skipped a lot of kids' books and by the time I was in fourth grade I was reading Tolkien and by the time I was in sixth I was reading Douglas Adams.....
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