Sam & Fuzzy Extra - August 2021 (Patreon)

It's S&F Extra time! Here's a behind the scenes look at what I worked on last month. 

In  the  gallery above, you'll find the final version of each piece, as well as  some animated GIFs of how some of them came together!  And down here,  I'll provide some info about each piece!

Paper Corgio
In the gallery above, you'll find a bunch of photos of the making of this experimental photo comic! 

As you'll see, I started by sketching out how I planned to arrange everything... both the drawings, and the physical real-world objects. But once I was actually assembling it all in real life, I found I had to shuffle things around quite a bit before I got everything I needed it to be. I also found I need to draw an extra two corgis... #5 and #10 of the fully cut-out ones... to make things flow nicely.

Blackout
I thought you all might be entertained to see what this comic actually looks like in proper light! Fun fact: while I really did draw this comic during a blackout, I drew all four panels in equally poor lighting. In other words, yes, I did "fake" the increasingly inaccurate art. (I did it by squinting as I drew, haha!)

Outside the College
I thought this recent comic would be a fun one to show as a making of GIF, so you'll find one in the gallery above! This one is interesting because of how much I messed around with the artwork digitally! The first frame of the GIF shows the original on-paper lineart, while the third shows how it looked when I was done messing around with it in Photoshop. As you'll see, I not only drew most of the background digitally... I also wound up going back and editing a lot of the character art as well. (I guess I was not having a good inking day when I did the on-paper part!)

You'll notice the first panel is a lot wider in this version than it is on the website. That's so it can be a "full bleed' panel -- ie: a panel that extends off the edges of the pages -- in the eventual book version.

Bitey the Shark
I know a lot of you enjoyed my "Bitey through the ages" comic back in May. So I thought you might get a kick out of this! This is actually the first drawing of Bitey I ever drew. Originally, I conceived him as a parody of ill-thought Sonic characters. This piece -- and in particular, the strange caption -- was inspired by some of the equally strangely captioned Sonic Adventure wallpapers. (I've included one of them in the gallery above for reference.)

Bookplates
Boy oh boy, did I ever draw a lot of these! Hundreds and hundreds of them, in fact, for all the folks who got artist editions of my kickstarter books.

In truth, most of the bookplates I drew were relatively "normal" portraits of whatever character the backer requested.  But sometimes, folks asked for more obscure or unusually specific requests... these are some of those! You'll find larger versions in the gallery.

Dev and Jess Judo
Last but not least, here's the first of a couple recent commissions I did starring Dev and Jess! Saucy Hippo backers have already seen a couple of alternate versions of this one, but I've included a new making of GIF in the gallery above. The premise for the piece takes some inspiration from back when Jess was training Dev in martial arts... but goes in a flirtier direction.

Dev and Jess is a popular "ship", as the kids say.  I am always happy to take commissions where I get to draw people's cute ships! Unless they mean actual boats. The hell with that!

Thanks, everyone! See you next time.