An avid reader (Phil!) asked me last week what had become of Jeff’s pets. I had a story arc that was to explain where they are presently (as Jeff’s house is at the moment condemned) but with the start of the new year and the “BIG” story, I essentially put that on the back burner.
Rest easy, you are about to find out where Jeff’s pets are. 🙂 We shall continue on with band’s antics after this brief animal pause.
For my birthday in 1977, Pink Floyd released “Animals” and the tour that followed (which I missed, damnit) was full of floating animal balloons that exploded causing all types of havoc on the stoners attending. Most didn’t notice…
Note: I am returning to the 2008 format for the 3 days a week updates. The larger format takes too long for me to do three a week. So I’m thinking of either adding a weekend update or making one comic a week the larger format (kinda like the Sunday funnies used to be larger and the dailies smaller). Not sure, I’m working on that still.
We would zigzag our way through the boredom and pain, occasionally glancing up through the rain :
Good one Byron
“And watching for pigs on the wing.”
An over looked album of theirs…
Who doesn’t love hundreds of squirrel butts?
Is this the first time you had to draw a character from a side perspective?
Was it hard?
I’ve drawn their faces in profile but a standing character on a strict profile looks funny. I used a reference photo of a young women lying on a couch (no, she was not naked…) and I think Robyn’s legs are too long. That’s what I get for using a real human being as a reference for a cartoon character.
I generally do not like drawing full length views of characters for comic strips as it makes them too small in the frame. I don’t know how the “Blondie” creators draw all their characters in such small frames (well, most of them have their knees bent…)
But to answer your question, yeah, it was hard which is why I drew her once and then pasted her into the other frames. That’s something I rarely do as I like to draw each frame individually. But at times I copy and paste stuff.
I think the result is very good, actually. Specially the long legs.
A standing character may have shorter legs, but, for a lying character, I think longer legs are better.
Don’t ask me why – I don’t feel good at writing in English right now… 🙂
Heart – “Bad Animals”?