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Hello! My name is David Olson, most people call me Dave. You can too! I've done comics and illustration for fun basically my entire adult life, on and off, to varying degrees of success. This concludes my introduction, please enjoy my art things!

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A puppy pet commission! 🐕 Also some preliminary sketches to try to capture the movement.

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Did an oil portrait of my girlfriend’s dog, Uchi! 🐕 🐕 🐕 also some sketches while I decided what to paint.

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Been experimenting with some oil painting recently. It’s surprisingly fun and easy! Who knew?

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An old college buddy of mine, Mike Castner, and I have been kicking around a point and click videogame idea called Cornelius and Snips. I did some real quick low-res sketches to put down some ideas!

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Even more sketches from our adventures in Star Wars, the roleplaying game!

1. After escaping the wave of horrible mutated pincer bugs, we found our way to the central hub of the quarantined sewer – the supposed source of the sith corruption. We came across a dark figure we’d seen, and even evaded once before, who turned out to be that Sith Lord’s apprentice. Rell had been having force visions, supposedly sent by the Sit Lord, that she should kill this apprentice and take his place. Scary stuff. Rell got slashed real bad in the face. She did, however, kill him.

2. The true threat descended through a retracting dome ceiling, astride a sickly-green dragon. A custom flamethrower features highly in the fight, C-00K’s modifications coming in quite handy, as the sith alchemy influenced dragon creature was especially vulnerable to fire. The Sith Lord was ultimately defeated through creative use of a grappling hook, a frag grenade, and a little luck. Ithor was saved! Though much of their floating city was destroyed by bombardment from an orbiting Star Destroyer, and  several thousand Ithorian citizens were ultimately made into unthinking rage zombies. The dead Sith Lord’s force influence waning, those poor afflicted souls, creatures and a few hyper-animated plants, melted. Our profile suitably raised by all this activity, we decided to retire from the restaurant business and join up with the Rebels full time.

3.  Our first official mission for them was to perform a simple search and rescue mission on another planet. A quick in and out. 12 hours after landing, after everything’s gone wrong, we found ourselves in the lair of a horrible crystal-encrusted mind control slug monster. Rell stabbed it. I looked on from relative safety.

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More sketches from our adventures in Star Wars, the roleplaying game: First campaign ended in a huge revenge violence orgy, our mission complete, the Hutt Crime Boss ‘Timo’ assassinated, Lemiya’s slave sister returned, victory seemed clear. Suddenly, the dead-man’s switch set up by Timo prior to the fight set off a chain of explosions, completely destroying the fortress we’d just successfully assaulted! I managed to hop into our ship (The Slutty Cougar, if you’re curious), power it up, and maneuver it to catch my jumping crewmates. Suddenly, a piece of debris pierced the cockpit, and lodged itself in my chest. I died soon thereafter, having sacrificed myself to save my friends -- I was a leaf on the wind. So ended Brando Duo. Unfortunately, I drew none of this.

We started a new campaign:

1. I am Soot, a former clone trooper who, with his clone brother Ash, started a restaurant called the Hydian Way on Ithor. To make the purchase, we partnered with an Aleena orphan named Rell. Our droid cook, C-00K, loves his newly installed integrated torch arm. It makes cooking much easier, as he can apply heat to both the top and bottom of any particular dish. So efficient! A tinkerer by nature, he’ll soon find a way to increase the range of these flames he can produce, making, in effect, a flamethrower. Ash and I find this troubling.

2. Passing out flyers for our restaurant to stormtroopers at a checkpoint (to throw them off the scent and hopefully prevent them from investigating our cargo -- escaped Wookie slaves!). Free Eopie steak with any purchase of space coffee!

3. A regular to our restaurant by the name of Wa Haiga has gone missing! He was an Ithorian biomedical engineer, researching an extract of the (highly sacred) Bafforr tree, which has similar healing properties to the more widely used bacta. We began to find clues hinting as to Wa’s force sensitivity. In studying several artifacts we recovered from his apartment, we found the coordinates to an old family property belonging to the Haiga family. Our crew visited these coordinates, and found what turned out to be an Ithorian Jedi Temple. Some statues came to life, and would likely have killled us if not for the help of a mysterious and ancient Ithorian who lived down there (and turned out to be a Sith lord!)

4. The Sith lord escaped his temple prison (with our help, by accident we swear), and began infecting the floating city above with Sith Alchemy! While investigating reports of mutated creatures in the sewers, we found ourselves swarmed by giant green bugs with big pointy pincers!

Stay tuned for more Star Wars stories!

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This one is a maple tree if you can believe it! Saw it in the Redwood National Forest, in the Tall Trees grove. They only give out 50 passes a day to limit the foot traffic to the grove, and you have to hike down the hillside to get to the biggest trees. It was enormous, ancient, covered in a thick moss, and likely held untold wisdom.

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I also visited the Grand friggin Canyon last summer! This was one of my favorite views.

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A quick marker sketch that I did while visiting Arches National Park last summer! A bunch of people walked behind me to watch me do it (this took maybe 45 minutes?) and none of them went ‘that sucks’ or ‘you suck’ cause most people are nice.

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A lazy day for Dave!

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I drew this as a gift for a friends’ 3 year old.

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My friends and I play a DnD style Star Wars game, and sometimes I illustrate what happens!

1. I’m a former rebel pilot, Brando Duo, disgraced after a failed mission resulting in the death of my wife (at the unwitting hands of my droid best friend, RX-3-DX). I begin to assemble a scoundrel crew, as a Twilek orphan (Lemiya) and her bonded Wookiee (Lorko) come aboard. We’d tackle odd jobs, some for rebel black ops, others for more... independent outfits. After a particularly daring escape from an Imperial Starship, I begin to feel pulls from the force,

2. which lead me to a mysterious temple in the canyons of Tattooine.

3. We are led to the temple by a force sensitive tribe of Sand People. Once inside, the doors slam shut, and the rooms all begin to fill with sand. This results in some serious emotional trauma on Lemiya -- she begins to avoid any and all danger, no matter how well prepared.

4. We escape the trap dungeon, I gain a holocron, and we find a transmission waiting on our ship. An old gangster buddy of ours has a job, and with my new force powers, we have the expertise necessary to carry it out. Steal the Jewel of Yavin, currently on display in the Space Anomalies Museum on Bespin! To gain access to the upper crust (and be invited to a party taking place in the very museum where my target is located) I participated in (AND WON) a cloud car race.

5. RX-3-DX and Lorko visit the museum for fun (and to assess the security presence), while Lemiya and I follow up leads on a potential sewer entrance -- the location of which can be found in an old blueprint of the city.

6. The heist is a success! Unfortunately, on our getaway shuttle, we begin to hear a beeping. Suddenly, an explosion! Our characters jump from the fiery wreck to the nearest landing pad. I fail the check, and begin to plummet to the next landing pad down, incurring a lot of fall damage.

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I’d posted this over at Comics Every Dave (which is updating more like every once in a blue Dave, but still, there’s some content over there you may not have seen so check it out) at the beginning of the month (which is when Hourly Comic Day actually happens), but I figured I’d put it here too since I have a previous year on here. Might as well establish some continuity, despite my inactivity!

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I (digital) painted my parents for Christmas (as a gift)! This is them when they were young(er)!

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We played telephone pictionary the other day!  Each drawing had to take less than 5 minutes. These were my favorites. Left to right, top: 1. A quick portrait of my friend Joe, as the phrase i had to draw was ‘Joe on Pizza Friday.” 2. According to these xrays, it appears Joe has chronic toilet butt. 3. Snorlax eating a christmas tree. Left to right, bottom: 1. Gansta Santa. 2.. The prompt was ‘Fire Wizard Bowl’. I suppose I could have drawn some kind of competition where fire wizards compete, but I chose to go with a literal bowl. 3. Captain A-Bear-ica!

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The cast of my imaginary coming of age story set in a quirky high school. The hijinks they’d get up to!

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I like doing these little one tone portraits. Feels more like sculpting than drawing to me.