Cracked Actor Comic

Cracked Actor Halloween Special 2013 master post

Over ten years ago I drew the first/pilot page of a comic I used to draw called Cracked Actor. It was drawn on mixed media sketchbook paper in pencil, manga ink pens, and prisms color colored pencils. The premise being all of David’s personas living together under the same roof and all the shenanigans they’d get up to together. It was a very well liked comic in the Bowie Fandoms on DeviantART and Tumblr, and even inspired fans of it to draw and submit their own pages. What fun!

I’ve been reminiscing on the goofball one-shot styles and while reading back through the old pages, I had the chance to see just how far my art and knowledge of pacing and storytelling in a comic page have come, and decided to redraw the first page to give myself a chance to truly compare them. It’s been so much fun returning to these guys and getting to explore their personalities again. I’m incredibly pleased with how evident my progress is between the two pages.

I’ve posted the original beside the new one. I think the pacing of the new page definitely works better, and love that this gives all of their personalities a chance to shine too. I even ended up having more ideas for other pages while drawing this, so possibly stay tuned for more Cracked Actor!

Happy Bowiemas all!

It's about time we check in on the guys, whattaya say?

we're doing some things a little differently this time around. No more one-shots for this section. This is gonna be a nice long one with lots of good story stuff for you guys!

Featuring the first of the new characters: Buttoneyes! David described him as a blind oracle, so here he is, doing this thing. And Major Tom is pretty over his shit

Surprisingly, they were very well recieved! So naturally, I made more!

And to my absolute delight and surprise, so did other people! Other members of the DeviantART Bowie fandom started making their own and soon we had a whole group dedicated to the story, sharing the hijinks of the crew and making each other laugh. Here are a few of my favorite pages from @alyway221 and @iviesaur as well as another DA user called OwlishMystic.

Soon we had contests and holiday specials, all sorts of fun events to keep us writing! My art started to steadily improve as did my page quality

And all around, some of my best memories in the fandom came from working on this comic.

But then, David died. I dropped into a super deep depression, and stopped working on a lot of Bowie related works. I absolutely abandoned the comic and threw it into a long hiatus. Despite this, new members continued to add pages, but it was nothing like the amount we once had.

Cracked Actor Christmas Special- Caroling

I wanted to finish this before christmas was over. Here is the final piece for the christmas special! :)

I hope you’ve all had a great holiday season and I look forward to drawing David’s 67th birthday present. 

updated for better quality

Cracked Actor Christmas Special- Decking the Halls

I’m really pleased with the way the details have shown through in the finished piece. 

Cracked Actor Christmas Special- Decking the Halls

I’m really pleased with the way the details have shown through in the finished piece. 

Cracked Actor Christmas Special #1

Serious Moonlight building a very dashing snowman. 

art and comic belong to Silvermoon822 (me)

Announcing the very first David Bowie Coloring Book Coloring Contest! 

We have some lineart here of David Bowie posing for his famous Aladdin Sane cover. BUT WAIT?! where’s the lightning bolt?!

AHA! NOW SEE THIS IS WHERE IT GETS INTERESTING!!!

We want to see what you can design! We have provided an example of an Aladdin Sane sans lightning bolt design above, but you are limited only by your imagination!

RULES:

You may use a lightning bolt as the base of your design, HOWEVER! You may NOT color it like the one on the left (the original coloring) or a recoloring of the lightning bolt itself (yellow and green, for example)

You may use whichever medium you like. Crayon was just what was used to color the examples because it is what was on hand at the time. 

you may add props, backgrounds, or extra features (such as longer hair, open eyes or a tongue poking out)

All submissions must be marked as contest entries like this:  Your Name (optional) Tumblr URL Coloring Contest #1 title of your entry

You may enter as many times as you want

There must be entries from at least five different applicants for the contest to count

All entries must be in by December 30th, 2013. Scoring will take place the following day. 

Entries must be submitted one at a time. We cannot process entries that contain two or more pictures

David’s face MUST be visible. You are not allowed to pull a beatles and put an apple in front of it. You can obscure parts of it, but not all of it. (and for you smart asses out there, I don’t mean the tip of his nose or the corner of his jaw. You know what I mean)

Keep it somewhat family friendly. Blog rules apply (http://davidbowiecoloringbook.tumblr.com/post/53437431248/for-those-interested-in-contributing-lineart-to-the)

HAVE FUN! 

Please direct any questions to the ask box of the David Bowie Coloring Book. 

We can’t wait to see what you create!

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Prizes: We are in desperate need of help in this section. For the moment, the prizes are drawings supplied by Silvermoon822 (http://silvermoon822.deviantart.com/). 

1st Prize: a full-color headshot of your choice Blog promo

2nd Prize: Headshot Lineart of your choice blog promo

Cracked Actor Halloween Special 2013 Finale! :D Looks like Lodger’s halloween costume isn’t going over so well with everyone else!

We’ve also revealed David’s costume (Ghostbuster), Jareth as the phantom of the opera and Nasty Jack as Zombieland’s Talahassee! :)

Cracked Actor Halloween Special 2013 master post

I wanted to go with a more Twilight Zone feel on this one, so that’s why it looks more…painted.

That’s my version of an Aresian (aka Martian (ares=mars)) on Ziggy

and I know that Tommy comes from Anthea, but I wanted to throw ALL the aliens in this! 

Frankenbowie! The story of a deranged artist who once studied the permanence of death has set his sights on giving it life! With the help of a scientist who has mastered and harnessed the power of electricity, they bring forth, THE SCARY MONSTER!

stay tuned for the next Night of the Super Creeps special! Brought to you by Cracked Actor

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all kidding aside, this was a lot of fun. I felt like such a clever little shit when i devised the cast. I’ll admit, I gave an evil laugh. Julian fought with me the whole time. He apparently did NOT want to be colored! XD Telsa was like “that’s cool, just don’t make me look like Gomez Adams”, which I did three or four times before the final product. 

FINISHED! BOO! 

Here are the finished tones for the Halloween Special in Cracked Actor. 

We have, Nate Skellington. Zombowie, Werebowie, and Count Daveula! >:D