i guess this is now the second in a series of couch cushion strips🙂
Tag: comic strip
timelapse of the easter strip
color was really important in this strip (i mean, color is always important for me, and i kind of sweat it when coloring the strip, but color was especially important to the storytelling of this particular strip) i don’t think this strip could have worked in black and white (and some of my past strips absolutely could have, but i like color…and now i’m not even sure of what my original point was. anyway, hope you enjoy seeing the strip come together at high speeds, it always seems a minor miracle to me when a strip is finished
coloring easter eggs
paper towel roll timelapse
here’s about 45 minutes of drawing compressed into about 45 seconds if you watch closely you can see how lazy i am once i get a good drawing i recycle it in all the panels and just adjust what i need to
search timelapse
here’s the screen capture of me working on the ‘search’ strip from a few days ago i also reorganized the ‘comics’ menu item so it is just finished strips now. no process videos or sketches making it easier to scroll through past strips without all that junk in the way so if the sketches, videos, and various other asides that appear between strips aren’t in your wheelhouse, you can just bookmark the comics page and see the most recent strips
paper towels
hey kids! comics! a new strip for today it’s been 11 days since the last strip way too long but now the wait is over well, kind of now you have to wait for the next one or read them all here while you wait
zipper comic timelapse
it is hard to wear a zipper sweater and carry him because he likes to zip up the zipper and catch my neck skin in it i don’t know if that came across in the strip or not not only were the drawings difficult for me on this one, but so was the ‘timing’ of the strip – trying to figure out which moments to show so that the reader understands whats going on and the punchline is effective
popcorn
visiting grandpa and grandma
search
putting together the pepper strip timelapse
what’s great about this timelapse is it shows how nothing came easy on this one and when i saw little guy trying to grind pepper with the pepper shaker at the restaurant i thought i had it made but then i realized i needed to show all of the other times he saw me using a pepper grinder and none of the drawings came easy the staging of that last panel was especially difficult. and the drawing was pretty bad. I’m not even sure it is clear what is going on. even the colors of the strip were…
the zipper
snowball time lapse
here’s the timelapse of me drawing the snowball comic strip this is an interesting one to look at because the strip went through so many changes after i stopped recording i decided to run it vertically having no expression on the little guy in the last panel felt most right for the ‘punchline’ but even more interesting (to me i guess) was the decision to change the first panel the close up of little guy packing a snowball seemed to ruin the ‘rhythm’ of the piece that panel seemed too ‘big’ – too ‘loud’ for the next three panels for…
the squirrel
robin timelapse
timelapse of the robin strip from a couple of days ago i didnt know i was going to erase the pencil lines of the tree until i saw how it looked so much of the final look of these strips comes out of the doing of them the final is always different from the idea of them
pepper
robin
the first robin of the year spotted sunday february 25 2018
chicken noodle soup
laser
cushions
getting this one in under the wire tonight click on the ‘steps’ tag or click here to scroll through a bunch of these webcomics
snow pants
draw timelapse
when these drawings go by this fast it almost looks like i know what i’m doing see the final comic here
sock
share playlist timelapse
timelapse of drawing my share playlist strip from a couple of days ago
draw
you can view all the recent strips featuring little guy at screentone.org/tags/steps