Drawings 36 and 37 - Let the Humour Begin

[tealin]

So, I have a couple ideas for little sketches to put in here, but of course have not found/made the time to do them yet, which means I must delve deep into the archives.

I probably could have found something more recent than this in my stack of old sketchbooks but, well ...

Before I managed to break out of the battery hen coop of TV for the free-range factory farm of features, and was agonizing at my loss of drawing skills brought about by a year of scribbling structureless stylized animals on a Cintiq, I was trying to think of ways to keep my hand in. I am rather short of ideas, and while I had a few sequences I wanted to board I'm frustrated boarding on anything but a Cintiq, which I do not have at home. So I thought I would use some downtime to redo a comic strip I started when I was 14, then post the original drawings next to what would (hopefully) be a nice fancy comic page. Getting started involved rewriting the beginning a little because the setup was pretty corny, but from there on it would be smooth sailing, especially because all the ideas were already explored by my much more creative 14-year-old self.

Unfortunately the big uphill struggle at the beginning turned me off, and I was back at work much earlier than I expected, and haven't had a big swath of unemployment since. So to fill up the gaps in this last week of Lent I shall post the segments of the strip that I scanned a couple years ago (?!). The whole thing was drawn on a receipt roll, so depending on your monitor settings you should be seeing it life-size. This first bit was originally done on strips of paper so I traced it off when I moved onto the receipt roll, and that's what you see here.

Comments

[raddishh.livejournal.com]

Haha, awww, this is pretty good for 14. :D

Can't wait to see what you come up with.

[conga-chili.livejournal.com]

These are amazing!!! I like the glug glug glugging.

And I also remember when I used to draw on receipt rolls.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

YOU DID TOO? WOW! I thought I was the only one! Awesome. What did you draw?

[conga-chili.livejournal.com]

hehe, my parents were in the restaurant business, so they were always around. That or those computer papers with dots on the sides.

Mostly comic strips about woodland creatures doing mundane things - the main characters were chipmunks ripped off from Chip n' Dale. I like yours better!

[http://users.livejournal.com/__lys_fleurx__/]

I still have innumerable boxes of continuous feed paper from when my mom was a receptionist in the 90s. It's the best.

[chainedwind.livejournal.com]

Redwall! Oh the memories :D

[fani.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHA--^^

I used to steal off my Dad's office (re: paper). Every Easter I'd pray to God saying I won't do it again but the habit only got broken after my parents gave me scrap paper freely.

Oh, btw--am I mistaken to believe that you haven't done any sketches of Granny Weatherwax?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I know I did at least one and I swear I posted it but no one ever seems to find it so maybe I didn't ... anyway, no one can draw her better than Paul Kidby so I just don't bother, and frankly the Witches books don't get me going so much.

[fani.livejournal.com]

Ya, Kidby' got a good handle on the Witches ^^ for sure. (imho your stuff, especially the Going Postal is better than his. WAAY)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, I do have an unhealthy passion for Going Postal that he may find hard to equal. ;)

[http://users.livejournal.com/__lys_fleurx__/]

that's about how I draw now . . . :/

[renshai.livejournal.com]

LOL, Redwall. Now that I'm actually involved in supervising younger children occasionally, I have a lot more sympathy for Mother Mellus than I ever did as a kid.

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

omg the sewing and the bath frames are great xD 14?? Awesome xD

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I may have been 15. It was either a late 14 or early 15; I think I started it towards the end of grade 9 but if it was in the summer I was 15. I don't know, I never dated anything back then!

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

Redwall! I love Redwall!

I'm quite impressed with your Mother Mellus--at fourteen, I wouldn't even have known how to draw a badger. Is the mouse supposed to be a specific character, or just a random naughty Dibbun?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

He's just a random character ... I don't think I ever gave him a name, I just referred to him as 'my mouse character' and somehow I avoided having a situation where any of the other characters had to call him by name.

[tundrabeast.livejournal.com]

Amazing stuff for 14 xDDD way to make me jealous, gawd

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Grade 9 anyway, I was 14 for most of Grade 9. It was probably late 14.

[tundrabeast.livejournal.com]

Oh right I guess I'll just take that back then, this is positively awful! You should be ashamed of yourself xD

Naw, much kudos to ya <3

[brennildandd.livejournal.com]

Panel no.3 gave me a real Maus vibe...it's the tilted back mouse face, I think.