Cartoon dogs using computers

In the first of what will hopefully be a long and interesting series, I'm taking an interested search keyword (or, in this case, phrase--the one in the post title) that led a visitor to The Eighth Day and caught my eye.

This, of course, is a follow-up to a classic cartoon from The New Yorker ("On the Internet, no one knows if you're a dog"). And, rather indubitably, it also shows cartoon dogs using computers.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black ballpoint pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Things Made Simple, part 2: Final Design

The final verdict turned out to be the design in the bottom right corner of the previous post's proposals was the one chosen, and the above three pictures were done in specific poses and situations.
Well, that's all!

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Illustrator CS3

Things Made Simple, part 1: Character Development

The above is a page of various different character styles designed for use by the Things Made Simple website in their site imagery and instructional videos. The top row includes Rister and Rob, as well as other characters drawn in the same style; overall, there are six full-body styles present, not to mention numerous head shots.
In the next post, you'll see what got picked!

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen

Today's jpost.com cartoon

The guy on the left is Yasser Abed Rabbo (not to be confused with the other Yasser, Arafat), who seriously came out with this "threat" this week. Much bitter LOLing commenced among Israelis who, having paid attention, knew that the Oslo Accords have never meant anything more than diddlysquat to the PA.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.4 mm pilot pen

Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

GetAShipper

Concept mockup for online shipping company's logo. Project cancelled.

Drawn using:
Serif PhotoPlus SE

Random frog

Drawn using:
Blue 0.5 mm needle tip pen

Today's jpost.com cartoon

Hizbullah are nothing more than the puppets of Iran, whose insidious tentacles of influence are spread throughout the region. Due to space constraints, the countries' borders are not drawn to scale.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Black marker
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Play to the Crowd Sports

Logo for Canadian sports-related website. Not chosen.

Drawn using:
Adobe Illustrator CS3

A referee getting punched in the face

Shirt design. Project cancelled.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen

Today's J. Post cartoon

The rescue of the Chilean miners is the most heartwarming story of the decade. The Middle East Peace Process? Not so much...

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Blue 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

2,000TH VISIT

Almost half a year after The Eighth Day's one thousandth visitor, some dude/dudette from the United Kingdom kicked the hits total up to two thousand at 7:00:19 AM EST!!!
In celebration of this newest milestone, here's another compilation of TED's most popular entries during the intervening span:

There are plenty of repeat performers here. The two posts concerning the Tortoise and the Hare combined to finish way ahead of everything else; the Linkara Corps led all single comers with nearly 100 hits (and carved out a niche on or near the first page of Google Images search results for "linkara"). Also teaming up were my fanart depictions of an alt-future Young Justice team, thanks to news of an impending cartoon adaptation of the franchise sparking a renewed interest in the subject--good enough for third. My second batch of anthropomorphized Kung Fu Panda characters also held strong.
Newer material also made it in. The running book logo and rattlesnake mascot proved to be hits, as did the Dom DeLuise memorial cartoon, mostly via Bing.
Older posts mounted comebacks as well, as the inclusion of the duck from the Pratchett-inspired Larson tribute shows; and my alt-future Teen Titans post was also snapped up, bizarrely enough, by a stretching fetish messagegroup. ...Yeah, I'll just let that one sink in for a bit.
Plus, can't forget my ongoing political cartooning! The Obamacare booth and Demjanjuk accusation remained top dog, but in the interest of variety, I'm replacing them with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud "Abu Mazen" Abbas.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil
Colored pencils
Red marker
Black 0.4 mm pilot pen
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Black 0.7 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Happy Catfish

Logo design for graphics studio. Project cancelled.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus SE

Today's J. Post cartoon

With all of his troubles at home, Obama thinks the political morass of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, as yet unsolved by six presidents, is what he needs to boost his rating. Yyyeah.
UPDATE: Fourth cartoon reposted by Daniel Dagan.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil (sketch)
Black 0.5 mm pilot pen
Serif PhotoPlus 6.0

Early random Rister & Rob doodles

At this stage I was still working out how they should be drawn consistently, so the torsos are rather shorter than you've seen elsewhere on the blog.

Drawn using:
No. 2 pencil