I’m using an inferior Bristol Board at the moment – the italic fountain pen I use for lettering has taken against it. So apologies for the spidery lettering in the next twenty strips or so. I’ll be back to the decent stuff from Daler-Rowney as soon as I locate some more.
Category / Smith
The Find My Master Game
Shake
Rescue dog
Soggy doggy
Pok!
Duck!
What?!?
Wild goose chase
The irony here is that I was cooking a duck for Sunday lunch while I was inking this strip in. Damn you ducks, why do you have to be so tasty?
Outboard motor
I’ve been sort of dreading drawing this set of strips with Jones on the toy yacht. It all looks deceptively simple but my main worries were
a) how to draw Jones clinging to the yacht and make it look convincing
b) how to convey the movement or the lack of movement in any particular frame
c) how to marry it all up with a landscape when I tend to draw everything straight-on from the side
and
d) how to show Jones using her tail as an outboard motor.
I think I’ve succeeded in the first three, but we’ll see if how I did in the fourth one when we see the comments on GoComics on Monday. If there are a lot of ‘what’s going on there?’ comments underneath the strip by the end of Monday I’ve failed.