So I thought I’d make a more serious attempt at a painting, and actually spend a few days on it. It’s fun to do things like the Dorothy Lamour painting, where I just eyeball everything (no jokes, please), but it’s no fun to do a comparison afterward and realize how out of whack some of my proportions are. So for this one, I’ve gone back to the old standby, the grid, and carefully sketched Bob to match the photo exactly.

My mom has always said allergy season makes me cranky. Well, it’s allergy season, and boy howdy!

I was doing some pointless experimenting with paper textures in Photoshop when I realized, hey, maybe I ought to do some actual drawing practice. My art class is on hiatus, so I’d been slacking/devolving. A few hours later, and here’s a sloppy Dorothy Lamour!

The Paper software I mentioned yesterday got me thinking about how a brush-like, variable-width line might help my comic strip seem a little less flat. Sounds like I’m letting the computer dictate my style, but presumably this is about how I’d ink with a real brush. What do you think?