I just wanted to draw Jacob Sheep Horns
November 8, 2013
2:37 pm
Someone told me there was a joke similar to this in Futurama after I’d already almost finished drawing it but whatever, it comes from the experience of having a friend who professionally sculpts artisan violins and watching him spend two years tinkering with form and material to have something that looked, felt, and sounded like it was supposed to.
Besides the joke is more about having an unplayable golden instrument being The Very Worst Thing anyway.
I’m gonna try to colour this but as has been the trend lately I’ve been super busy working multiple animation projects. A short I’ve been working on for the Wall Street Journal just went up, so you can enjoy that in the meantime
Thanks for the dedication. Always love a good update.
I hope you’re at least getting paid well for all the extra work you do.
I was actually pleasantly surprised and found out I was getting paid more than I thought so I bought a crocodile skull and a wild boar skull to celebrate.
That explains the face of the demon.
It’s more of a fusion of a mandrill and a Jacob sheep.
Those… those horns are wonderful. Okay, the top horns are a bit more twisty than I’m used to seeing on a Jacob — they actually look more goat-like — but you never quite know how they’re going to go. (And also this is a demon we’re talking about here.) The laterals? Perfect.
I grew up with Jacobs. Showed them in 4H and everything. They are pretty much amazing and I can’t not look at horns without a critical eye.
Love the rest of the comic, too, but omg polycerate demon
You’re not secretly my friend Charlie are you? She has a skull collection. Not just of her enemies either.
Poor Yorick.
Okay, that was extra hilarious because my Dad has a Dh-82a Tigermoth done up in Brooklands Flying Club colors (well colours being a British airplane and all.)
I have no idea what i just watched but it was pretty cool
You watched the inevitable result of this song: http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/daniels-charlie/devil-went-down-to-georgia-10926.html
I think he meant the Wall Stree Journal thing
It is a little strange, but entertaining.
Basically all the vehicles in the short are considered classics of design. The MOMA building is also a pretty good design. And cats are cool.
I find it funny how he doesn’t seem to realise he can just sell the fiddle.
The question is, would he find a buyer for that piece of junk?
A rich buyer who doesn’t play music and thinks it would be a spiffy decorative piece.
That or just melt it down and sell the raw gold.
Pretty much what I was thinking. In the crazy off-chance you can’t find some eclectic buyer for a solid gold fiddle you won OFF THE DEVIL IN A CONTEST FOR YOUR SOUL, you should still be able to get an easy several hundred dollars off the raw material.
Congratulations on identifying the joke as it was explained in the comment under the comic.
Haha, seriously? “Several hundred dollars”? You realise that a gold bar the size of a thumb drive would be worth over 6 thousand dollars, right? I don’t know exactly how much a fiddle made of one of the densest materials known would weigh, but I expect you’d be looking at hundreds of thousands of dollars. It’s sad how over-valued gold has gotten; jewelry, for example, is often worth more melted down than as pieces of art.
See, now you’re thinking. As a matter of fact, that must be $100,000 worth of gold.
The second car in that video – was that a Renault Alpine?
Looks more like a Citreon 2CV to me
So you’re Six Point Harness? That’s a pretty awesome… I don’t really want to say pen name. But the equivalent of that for animation. I really liked it. Also, I think he could most likely melt it down, sell it, and be set for awhile. Gold is pretty expensive.
Six Point Harness is the company I work for! I was only one of a handful of people who worked on that, I think I animated like a sixth of it over the course of a couple days.
So one might say you were one of six points on the harness?
So you’re actually just a one-point harness. Far less impressive :p
That’s fantastic!! (The animation, I mean.) I need to see more of your stuff!!
Cutest Egyptian gods ever!
That’s like those games where you spend all that time questing and grinding to get a weapon that, realistically, would probably bend with the first strike, or an armor that would make you the prettiest lightning rod in town!
It’s odd, though, that the Devil would come back later for it. Or that Johnny wouldn’t forfeit it. You know what, screw logic, I just love the Devil’s face. :]
There is also a parody of this “The Devil went to Jamaica”. It is about the devil, Johnny, and some weed.
Dude, sell the gold fiddle and buy a ‘Strat”.
Wrong. Buying a Stradivarius is twice price of that golden violin. Sell the gold, invest on Wall Street.
Wrong. Buying Wall Street is unreliable and too in-crowd controlling. Sell the gold, buy a Senator.
Awesome. Really enjoyed the animated short: well done, even if you’re but a single point on the Harness of Life.
How much would a golden “fiddle” weigh? Anyone got an idea? In kilos? In pounds? In old troy ounces?
Well, some quick Googling showed that ~400 to 450 grams is a reasonable weight for an average violin. Furthermore, maple is one of the common materials used in making violins.
Gold is around 28 times as dense as maple wood, so that works out to around 12 kilograms, ballpark. Or ~26.5 pounds if you prefer.
Gold has a density of about 25 times that of wood. A fiddle isn’t all wood, naturally, but the other components are largely in similar density ranges. The strings are the big exception, but the average density of the fiddle is still less than gold by a factor of 20 or so. Given a typical fiddle weight of 400g, a fiddle with the same shape made entirely of gold would be ~8 kg (17.6lb). This may not quite be accurate, as gold has higher shear and tensile strengths than wood, so thinner shapes can be used without risking collapse. A gold violin body would probably have resonance frequencies outside of human hearing, though, and I can’t really see gold strings being usable, as gold is much less stiff than steel, and prone to plastic deformation at low strains.
I have maybe thought too much about this.
The basic idea of a golden fiddle being a piece of crap was in Futurama, but it didn’t have the added sting of the devil actually being glad to get rid of it. The way the comic works out, it’s like he managed to win this round in the end, anyway.
He’s the father of all lies and the uncle of all tricks, afterall.
I thought that was Robot Santa?
The Wall Street Journal short was a thing of absolute beauty.
I love the WSJ animation!
Pretty Kitty loves Jacking Jackel Jerk. Mummy madness manifests.
Hmmm… Now I want to go see a Ryan Shupe concert.
They do the best Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Damn, that short is really good.
I stumbled across this place…and love it! This is great!
Anyone but me ever realize that the way the song is set up, Johnny is going to hell anyway? Just by taking the bet with the Devil, Johny is showing he can be tempted by evil for the material pleasures of the world, which is a sin in itself. By never repenting for what he has done because he won and keeps the fiddle, Johnny is likely damned for it.
He needs to go to confession.
Is he actually doing anything evil? Johnny is taking all the risk himself; it’s not like he won the fiddle by punching babies or anything.
In some circles gambling would be considered a sin; especially, if it was with the devil. I’m just saying…Oh how I hate that term, it just slipped out!
So what? In some circles, eating pork is considered a sin. That hardly makes it evil.
On a related note:http://www.fantasyinminiature.com/2010/01/o-henry-you-devil/
Would a fiddle still excite the lil Johnnys of today?
Think Old Nick needs a golden Wii U if he has any chance in the contemporary market…
Looking at the sales, I think a WiiU would excite modern kids less than a golden fiddle. It would have the exact same amount of worthwhile games.
nice short!
loved the video… very arty…
That WSJ is great. Who would have thought that Anubis was such a thief.
The Devil was just trying to clear out his garage.
Love the strip but a bit disappointed by the “violin”. This looks like a guitar, despite the shape; In contrast, Violins only have 4 strings; there is a reason unfurling bracken fronds are called “fiddleheads” and where are the f shaped sound holes? I’m guessing you did this from memory, perhaps in a hurry? Although I’ll concede that perhaps a crappy golden violin is different?
Apologies for being one of those hateful pedants who picks holes in that which you provide with talent and for free. Normally I wouldn’t but I’m so impressed by your observation, for example in your series on how to draw (super)human anatomy, I hate to see the aberration here. The quality of your drawing usually has me grovelling with admiration.
Look dude I had to draw his thing in like two hours there is literally no time or anything else, I work until I physically can’t stay awake any longer and pass out on top of my work util I get up and go to work and do it all over again. I do what I can, but sometimes I don’t get to meticulously draw and redraw props I’ve never had to draw before until I figure them out. Being a “Hateful Pedant” just makes me think “wow I am so not excited to work my ass off o provide free content to people eagerly waiting to complain about it.”
I’ll just leave this here.
Hey Kelly, what’s your tolerance on bishonen, like could you except Noriaki Kakyoin from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, but no Buccellati’s gang who look less like a group of gangsters and more like a boy band?
Coelasquid seems to not like them. There’s the comic that was pretty much brought on by people asking “Sesshomaru/Dante/Kuja/Vincent is soooooo manly, you should have them show up in your comic” Coela complied and showed that they wouldn’t fit in at the agency. There’s the whole “Nomura Syndrome” arc, where everyone at the agency caught Nomura Syndrome, which turned them into prettyboys. Needless to say, Everyone (Except Marv from Sin City) HATED the change, so The Commander went on a quest to essentially kill Tetsuya Nomura, going by the “Kill the master vampire and you revert the infected” logic. Then there’s the Lobo comic where New52!Lobo shows up and does something, only for Old52!Lobo shows up and rectifies the situation. Of course, that last one could be Coela being displeased with New52!Lobo’s design
Of course, I might be horribly wrong about this
You are horribly wrong, because the Nomura arc was about ridiculous out-of-character redesigns for the sake of marketing, the comic with Kuja and Vincent was about people sending me rude and demanding rants about why I was obligated to draw their faavourite characters, Bisshie Commander went after Gackt, not Namoura, and the new 52 Lobo stuff was about DC’s declaration to turn Lobo into a serious, gritty character that was basically everything the old Lobo was designed to make fun of.
I agree, the higher ups really missed the point on why people loved Lobo as a hyper masculine amoral space biker. But back to the main question, is there a “too much”, or “acceptable” level of bishonen, in turns of standard deviation like Giorno Giovanni may be to much but Johnny Joestar may be an acceptable deviation?
Ding! Criminal boy band! That’s it!
Am I the only one who thinks Johnny could be Jared’s Great-Grandfather? apart from the fact Jared comes from Kanto, of course.
A golden violin would theoretically sound fine. Loud, a bit tinny, but with a very clear tone. The problem is gold isn’t strong enough to support the tension of the strings. If you could overcome that engineering challenge it would work fine.
‘Billy’ reminds me of Shaggy from Scooby-Doo.. or perhaps his ‘hayseed’ clone/brother… who’s name I forget.
Eli.
I have to be honest, I think your take on the “A Golden Fiddle is Lousy” idea is the funnier one. Not only is the punchline funnier, but the sheer shit-eating grin (leer?) on the Jacob-Sheep-Mandril-faced Devil’s face in the third panel in priceless.
Wouldn’t the golden fiddle actually sound fine? You know since it was made by the devil, and it did sound fine when he played it.
The Devil’s bass players really carried that performance.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I never get tired of this…
I always wondered what a golden fiddle was good for. I love this one.
Just watched the video and thought it was very charming- would love to see you post any others that you do.
I liked it back when you made funny comics.
Yeah it was way better back then, you should probably stop reading them.
If you don’t like the comics, then don’t fucking come here. Comedy might be subjective, but being a condensing prick is pretty universal.
man…I really want more videos of the Anubis and Bast characters.