#BelgianBlue

Sp4rkler 3ricksonsp4rkler3rickson
2025-02-18

I... don't actually have any flavor text prepared for this one. Just a bit of alliteration, I guess:

This is...

Bebe
Bluherd's


,
Belgha.

Maybe I'll repost with an updated bit of narrative for her later.

In a barren plain, in front of a range of desolate mountains, an anthropomorphic Belgian Blue cow of the Barbarian class (from Dungeons and Dragons) stands statuesque, clothed in fabric with torn-looking edges. She holds a weapon in her right hand, with one end forming a pitchfork, which rests on the ground, and the other a scythe and pike hook. The weapon is as long as the barbarian is tall. her left hand holds at her side a shield, fashioned in the shape of a bull's face. Her arms and midsection are exposed and muscular. Her right foot rests atop a canine skull. One of her horns is cut off at the tip. She wears an eyepatch over her right eye, and the left one bears a scar from the swipe of a beast's claw. Her ears are both torn, presumably from having an earring or ear tag torn out of each. There is a regal looking bracelet around her right forearm, rings on her fingers, and a necklace of cylindrical beads and a round jeweled amulet around her neck. Leather pauldrons sit on each shoulder with a spike or horn protruding upward and outward, and a belt draped with large cow bells wraps the ragged skirt about her waist. Her long dark hair blows in the wind and there is a ring in her nose. The sky is filled with foreboding clouds, and a many-pronged lightning bolt flashes across the sky.(Same as previous image, with a slight gray haze added in.) In a barren plain, in front of a range of desolate mountains, an anthropomorphic Belgian Blue cow of the Barbarian class (from Dungeons and Dragons) stands statuesque, clothed in fabric with torn-looking edges. She holds a weapon in her right hand, with one end forming a pitchfork, which rests on the ground, and the other a scythe and pike hook. The weapon is as long as the barbarian is tall. her left hand holds at her side a shield, fashioned in the shape of a bull's face. Her arms and midsection are exposed and muscular. Her right foot rests atop a canine skull. One of her horns is cut off at the tip. She wears an eyepatch over her right eye, and the left one bears a scar from the swipe of a beast's claw. Her ears are both torn, presumably from having an earring or ear tag torn out of each. There is a regal looking bracelet around her right forearm, rings on her fingers, and a necklace of cylindrical beads and a round jeweled amulet around her neck. Leather pauldrons sit on each shoulder with a spike or horn protruding upward and outward, and a belt draped with large cow bells wraps the ragged skirt about her waist. Her long dark hair blows in the wind and there is a ring in her nose. The sky is filled with foreboding clouds, and a many-pronged lightning bolt flashes across the sky.
Sp4rkler 3ricksonsp4rkler3rickson
2025-02-16

About the middle of last year, I started brainstorming Caverns and Chaos characters for some of my OCs. I liked the idea of them playing a#ttrpg together, and even made a large-format comic of the player group making their way to the session at the Ericksons' house.
I give you Bebe Bluherd's character Belgha, the !

Grayscale rough sketch: in a barren plain, in front of a range of desolate mountains, an anthropomorphic Belgian Blue cow of the Barbarian class (from Dungeons and Dragons) stands statuesque, clothed in fabric with torn-looking edges.  She holds a weapon in her right hand, with one end forming a pitchfork, which rests on the ground, and the other a scythe and pike hook.  The weapon is as long as the barbarian is tall.  her left hand holds at her side a shield, fashioned in the shape of a bull's face. Her arms and midsection are exposed and muscular.  Her right foot rests atop a canine skull. One of her horns is cut off at the tip.  She wears an eyepatch over her right eye, and the left one bears a scar from the swipe of a beast's claw.  Her ears are both torn, presumably from having an earring or ear tag torn out of each.  There is a regal looking bracelet around her right forearm, rings on her fingers, and a necklace of cylindrical beads and a round jeweled amulet around her neck.  Leather pauldrons sit on each shoulder with a spike or horn protruding upward and outward, and a belt draped with large cow bells wraps the ragged skirt about her waist.  Her long dark hair blows in the wind and there is a ring in her nose.  The sky is filled with foreboding clouds, and a many-pronged lightning bolt flashes across the sky.
Sp4rkler 3ricksonsp4rkler3rickson
2024-11-22

Oh, hey, Lambda and Spark E. ... I guess your bovine buddy Bebe, the Belgian Blue, was oblivious to your beholding...

That last bit of alliteration was a stretch, but so was Bebe's yoga posture.

4 panel comic:

In a yoga studio, an anthropomorphic border collie in a blue tee shirt and beige shorts is standing in the yoga tree pose. A halo encircles his head and he imagines himself in a simply drawn field at the foot of a range of mountains, with a tree and two lakes nearby.

The image dissipates around his head as he notices an anthropomorphic ewe in a sleeveless pink spandex and headband to the right, meditating in the chair pose, balanced perfectly on one hoof beneath her. They make eye contact with one eye each, and the halo is now present and more prominent around the ewe's head.

They then both look to the right, with the panel focusing on their faces.  The border collie has a manga inspired look of shock on his face with a question mark and exclamation point in a callout balloon by his head, but the ewe is unfazed, and a cloud balloon with an elipsis hovers above her head.

In the end they are surrounded by a spiral galaxy in space, but they still cast shadows beneath them.  The border collie has fainted and a chibi ghost emerges from his mouth.  The ewe maintains the pose she was holding before.  To the right, an anthropomorphic Belgian blue cow in greenish teal sweatpants and sweatshirt maintains a complicated, improvised yoga pose, balanced on her forearms beneath her, with her right back hoof bent over her back to touch her nose, which is bent backwards behind her.  A halo encircles her head and contrasts brilliantly against the outer space background.
Sp4rkler 3ricksonsp4rkler3rickson
2024-09-01

Finally completed that comic. It *is* heavily watermarked, which is more clearly visible in the final panel that the rest of it.

Part one of a larger comic:
Anthro sheep carrying groceries in the front door, to her adopted brother, an anthro border collie: "Sparky! the door?"
Border collie: "Oh yeah, sorry!"
Sheep: "Honestly, were we raised in a barn?"
Border collie: sigh. No.
Anthro belgian blue cow and anthro hog enter the house and are promptly greeted by name.
Sheep to border collie: "The wild animals need to be out there in their wilderness home!"
Anthro wolf enters the house and shares a kiss with the sheep.
Border collie: "Oh Stuart, hey!"
Collie thinks "Take it easy, you two."Part two of larger comic:
Anthro sheep gestures to a feral cat and says, "Anyway, we already have, ugh, Tommy living here. We don't need any new pets in the house."  Cat hisses.
Anthro golden retriever and anthro house cat enter.  Anthro sheep greets them both by name. Border collie acts nervous as the golden retriever shows him a glittery ball.
Retriever: "Hi, Sparkles! I brought my own ball!  I mean, orb.
Anthro cat: "Yup, she spoke of nothing else."
Collie: "That's everyone, right?"
Sheep: "Yup! So anyway."
Collie: "Door, got it!.
Closeup of anthro hog with a 20-sided die in his hand against a fantasy background, who declares, "And now the adventure can begin!"Scene, part 3 of larger comic:
Anthro hog acts as Dungeon Master for a tabletop roleplaying game akin to dungeons and dragons.  Counterclockwise from his position behind the round table: A Belgian blue cow wearing a tee shirt fashioned like a Belgian flag; A ewe in a pink tee shirt with the words "fleece verano" and blue jeans; a wolf in a light teal shirt and gray slacks; house cat in black tee shirt and blue jeans, standing in chair to get a better view of the table; a golden retriever in yellow frilly blouse and blue jeans, grinning widely and tail wagging with abandon; a border collie in a light blue tee shirt, ears perked with a frightened expression on his face.
They are in a kitchen with murals of a farm-like setting.  the house is dark, but one overhead lamp (out of frame) illuminates the players and their table.
Sp4rkler 3ricksonsp4rkler3rickson
2024-08-20

Huh, apparently I never posted the first few panels of the comic I referenced in the previous post. This is all for the best, anyway. Here's some of the fun parts of that comic:

Work in progress. Clockwise around a round table from the left, the following seven anthropomorphic animals play a tabletop RPG: a sheep in a pink T-shirt and blue jeans, a Belgian blue cow in a T-shirt colored to resemble a Belgian flag and blue jeans, a pig in a teal and burnt orange jersey behind a tabletop RPG divider, a border collie in a light blue T-shirt and blue jeans with a hair-raised expression on his face, an excited and grinning golden retriever in a yellow blouse and blue jeans, a gray tabby in a black T-shirt and blue jeans standing on her chair with her hands on the table, and a gray wolf in a light teal short-collared shirt and dark-gray slacks.  They are in the middle of an open kitchen with red and beige tiles, with white cabinets, beige countertops, and a mural of dutch-belted cattle in a field on one of the walls above the counter.  The view from a window in the distant background shows that it is nighttime.  The house is dark, with the only light being an unseen overhanging lamp above the table.An anthropomorphic pig in a teal and burnt-orange jersey holding a 20-sided die in his right hand declares with glowing eyes and perked ears that an adventure can begin.  On the front of the die, on the face of a natural 1, is a pig skull with an apple in its mouth.  The background contains a few trees and mountains in the background against a saturated evening sky.Three panels from a comic featuring dialoge between an anthropomorphic sheep in a pink T-shirt bearing the words (in a wooly-looking script) "Fleece Verano" and her adopted brother, an anthropomorphic border collie in a light-blue T-shirt with colorful paw prints and the words "Arfs and Crafts" printed on it.

They walk into their front door.  The sheep is carrying groceries and the collie has forgotten to close the door behind them.
Sheep: Spark E! The door?
Collie: Oh, yeah.  Sorry.

Sheep: Honestly, were we raised in a barn?
Collie sighs: No.
Meanwhile an anthropomorphic Belgian blue cow in a T-shirt dyed to look like a Belgian flag and an anthropomorphic pig in a teal and burnt-orange jersey with a large numeral 90 printed above a smaller numeral 10 with a horizontal line between them approach the door on a walkway.

Upon the pig's and cow's entrance in the door, the sheep clasps the pigs right hand in her own in a show of camaraderie and the cow holds up her left hand with the thumb and pinky sticking out, in a "surf's up" gesture.

Sheep: Hammil!  Bebe!
Collie: Welcome!
Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪IngridHbn@mastodon.online
2024-08-18

screening today at #veganfest Ghent

Een film van Yasmine Versteele

"Een koe. Een kalf. Nuttige dieren in een gigantische industrie? Of dieren met gevoelens en rechten? Een andere mening over veeteelt. Een verhaal over het lot van koeien, verteld door de dieren zelf."

#belgianblue #animalrights

youtube.com/watch?v=82Y6f9g2zb

Sp4rkler 3ricksonsp4rkler3rickson
2024-06-02

Five friends under the stars: Counterclockwise from the bottom:
Spark E., his sister Lam E., Lam E.'s boyfriend Stuart, their fitness-minded pal Hamill, and their gamer buddy, Bebé.

Overhead view of five friends lying on their backs in an open field in a circle looking up at the sky, which is filled with fireflies.  There is an anthropomorphic border collie in a blue hoodie pointing at the sky, an anthropomorphic sheep in a pink turtleneck sweater holding hands with an anthropomorphic wolf in a collarless button-down shirt, a physically fit anthropomorphic pig in a sport jersey, and an anthropomorphic Belgian blue cow in a teal blue tee shirt with a Belgian flag and the words "blue Belgian" printed on it.
Sp4rkler 3ricksonsp4rkler3rickson
2024-05-23
Sp4rkler 3ricksonsp4rkler3rickson
2024-03-15

Gamer Cow and Gamer Dog v.2.

They meet again (or perhaps for the first time?) on opposing sides of the virtual battlefield!

Bebé the Belgian Blue bovine reigns supreme over the match!

Gamer cow, grinning in triumph: "Heh, got him again! This team is so easy. It hardly even seems fair."
Gamer dog, agape with shock: "Guys!  What's going on?  Who the heck is this new player? This 'underscore  x x belgian blue  x x underscore ninety-four.''
Sp4rkler 3ricksonsp4rkler3rickson
2024-03-14

Gamers!

I have an alternate set of speech bubbles planned, reframing these two as opponents... that's for later, I suppose.

Two panel comic:
First Panel: an anthropomorphic Belgian Blue cow sits at a computer desk, with an open can of Hoof-it energy drink in front of her. 
 Her room is walled and floored by bare wood planks, and there are posters for a popular band and a popular movie on her wall.  She excitedly tells her gaming companion: "This is it, Sparky.  The objective is within our grasp, just through that passage in the darkness.  I can taste the victory even now!" 

Second panel: An anthropomorphic border collie is at his gaming station in his more traditionally built bedroom.  He is clearly startled by the cow's message an as he spills his Pup Star energy drink, he shouts, "Bebe, no!  That passage is swarming with cow-bolds and borks!  You're headed into an ambush!  Turn back! Now!"

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