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Get it? Match, Match-o, Macho man? Oh well.
It’s better than my first idea, which was a cartoon of what used to happen, back in my smoking days in college, when I’d screw up this corny old joke. Someone would ask, “Gotta match?” and I’d try to be funny and would mean to say: “Yeah, your face and my butt!” Except I’m horrible at telling jokes and I always got the punchline backwards. So I was going to draw a cartoon of a guy asking me, “Gotta match?” and me saying, “Yeah, my face and your butt.” And then me looking perplexed. But I figured I’d have to do all this explaining anyway so I drew Match-O man.
I drew him in ink and wasn’t totally happy with the ink drawing and didn’t feel like starting over so to “save time” (in quotes because I actually then spent two hours learning how to do a bunch stuff in Photoshop and I could have redrawn it in much less time) by cleaning up the drawing and coloring it in Photoshop.
Jana Bouc, Artist 
22 replies on “Illustration Friday: Match(o)”
great concept!
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WHAT A HOOT!! And BEAUTIFULLY DONE!! MATCH-O Man — LOVE IT, Jana!
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I think you pulled it off just great!
Just think of the photoshop as a wonderful learning experience.
and I like the joke!
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Ooops, sorry I groaned a little at your macho joke. 🙂 Funny idea!
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Ha-Ha-Ha! Jana, that is not a joke you want to get backwards!
Match-o man is pretty funny too!
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Oh, too funny! And clever!
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ahh! the spoon lady!..thanks for the comment…i can’t even begin to explain who dick smith is…..but yeah his matches are funny.
this entry of yours gives me a giggle… and i would have loved to have seen the your face my butt illo… errr.. or is that my face your butt?…..i ‘m no good at punch lines either
all the best to ye,
lea
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I have to confess that I’m terrible with joke punchlines as well – my family loves to remind me of famous occasions I mucked up punchlines – or the time I got so hysterical I couldn’t get past the first line (and the joke wasn’t even that funny).
I like your Macho Match-o man – he’s jumping out of the matchbook so manfully!
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Clever stuff, Jana!
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I thought it was hi-LAR-ious. Which should be a cause for concern.
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It’s so lame it’s great — kitschy and quirky.
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Hello! Very funny 🙂 …love the concept. Great Illo.
Thanks for the message.
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I got it, hysterical!
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Good one, big lol
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lol, thanks for the smile this gave me!
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i love it!
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What a clever and funny illustration.
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Yes I get it! “Baby come and light my fire!” I think I borrowed that from some well known Rock Star. All apologies to Jim Morrison.
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Too funny and a fun concept!
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I try to “save time” like that, too…I’m hoping the time spent in Photoshop trying to fix things up will be useful one day. Otherwise, what have I done but waste time I could have used drawing something?
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Great concept, hot guy 😉
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Hello! I really like this painting, I love the wavy-ness and the strong macho-manly man. I love really bad jokes, but I too have joke dyslexia. My favorite joke is about a Panda who -Eat, Shoots and Leaves, but I always screw it up. Have a good week!
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