Month: May 2014

Look its a car commercial!

I really dig drawing a really pulled back camera shot, where everyone almost becomes stick figures…as you can tell in the last few pages.  I do it quite a bit actually.  It’s fun, because I am able to have more fun with poses and spend less time on boring details.

I do believe the sun is starting to rise.  You know what that means, Pickle will burst into flames!

 

No wait, that’s wrong…I know.  I get to change the palette finally!!!

Uh oh, this kid’s got a name now.  That means it’s serious!  The equivalent in dating would be meeting the parents.

I really like that first panel.  I usually cringe when it comes to drawing people inside of cars, but I am really happy with out it came out.

Time for a little SB trivia.  First it started off with just Pickle and Todd.  When I started fleshing out the world, Trish was introduced as a backup character.  However, in the end she pushed in front of Todd for the spotlight.  There was a time, that both Todd and Trish were going to be replaced by Oliver.  Oliver and Trish were actually related for a minute once.

But I scrapped all that and we are left with this incarnation of haphazard do-gooders.

Oliver may eventually become a vehicle for some other ideas I have…

P.S.  drawing kids is tough.

So I did a little redesign on the kid.  I wasn’t happy with his original design, even as I was drawing the page I knew I would after to change it later.  I am going to go back and redraw that page as well.  I wasn’t too happy with the pacing on that section either, however one of my favorite panels is in there, so I will have to reuse that piece.

We finally get to meet this little rapscallion on the next page…hmm, I don’t think I’ve ever written the word rapscallion before.