Drawings 36 and 37 - Let the Humour Begin
Apr. 8th, 2009 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinSo, 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.
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.
