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Kids’ Day 2008

09 Apr

The hos­pi­tal here has an annual health fair called Kids’ Day, some­thing attended by about 800+ kids and their fam­i­lies. There are inter­est­ing exhibits, lots of infor­ma­tion from health ven­dors, and the kids can get their hear­ing and vision checked, as well as puppy shots. Given the rural set­ting, odds are pretty good that this is about the only expo­sure some of them get to med­ical treat­ment all year.

On the upside, there’s the col­lat­eral mate­r­ial pro­mot­ing the event. This year’s poster was much more solidly col­or­ful than last year’s was:

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Dot & Lionel’s Holiday Comic

28 Nov

As men­tioned before, I’ve been busy — as in the case of this post. For the December newslet­ter at work I thought it would be a “fun” idea to make a comic insert fea­tur­ing Dot and Lionel.

The sketch­ing wasn’t the rough part; fig­ur­ing out how to break up the actions was tougher. And the blue­line and ink­ing went OK too. Illustrator’s gap detec­tion, though, was sub­op­ti­mal in places; I had to add a lot of paths to get the fills to work, par­tic­u­larly on pages 3 and 4.

Still, I think the effect over­all is pretty good. The JPEGs of the comic fol­low the fold, with a link to the PDF at the bot­tom. The PDF is imposed to print on an 11 x 17 tabloid sheet.

(Oh, in the bot­tom left image on page 2, the kids are shout­ing “Banzai!” I was going for an over-​​the-​​top manga-​​style look there.)

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Just Had To, Yeah.

06 Nov

Another Dot and Lionel toon.

It’s pretty clear Lionel’s me. Dot, though … she’s not any­where near as inno­cent as you might think. I get the feel­ing she goes along vol­un­tar­ily with her brother on his schemes, rather than being coerced; and she might even sug­gest refine­ments from time to time to improve on Lionel’s nefar­i­ous plans.

Anyway, some­thing I tossed out last week below the fold.

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Some Things are Better Without the Kids

30 Oct

Our hos­pi­tal is the largest pri­vate employer in the county with a staff of around 1300. That’s a lot of peo­ple — and a lot of families.

Each year we have a super­vised gath­er­ing of staff kids so the adults can spend some time doing Christmas gift shop­ping. There are games, treats and so on, and par­ents get the chance to scoop up good­ies with­out worry of being spied on or pestered to death.

For the flyer pro­mot­ing the gath­er­ing this year I decided cli­part just wasn’t going to do it, and fell back on pen­cil, ink and Illustrator. The results fol­low the fold. (This is just the graph­i­cal por­tion of the flyer; the info on where, when and so on I left off.)

I named the kids Dot and Lionel.

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