Shake
Tag / park
Rescue dog
Soggy doggy
Pok!
Duck!
What?!?
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.
Swings and roundabouts
This weeks strips were pencilled and drawn during the band call for Sister Act – that wonderful moment when the musical you’ve been rehearsing for the past few months suddenly gets an orchestra playing along instead of a plinky plonky piano. So, not counting the colouring, these all got put together in under three hours (with occasional breaks for singing and timing orchestral tags behind dialogue).
