Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: Hi there! I love your art, and it makes me want to draw characters like Gladstone too! But every time I try, I can't come up with a nice, neutral pose (like where the heck should the arms go) and the drawing will end up really.. odd.. What would you do in such situations?

I don’t really know how to help, but I guess I always run through a sort of check list when I’m sketching characters that I learned in animation/storyboarding;

1) can you tell who the character is by their silhouette alone?

2) can you tell what the character is doing by their silhouette alone?

3) can you tell what the character is feeling by their silhouette alone?

This doesn’t apply to all pictures (you can have the feeling/motive of the character solely relying on the face, as with a close up, or a change of expression with two identical poses) but it’s a really good exercise to get your body language clear and keep the ‘acting’ of an image to the point. Try to keep limbs held away from the body so you can ‘read’ them, and remember you can use the hands in communicating emotion too.

Anonymous asked: how do you plan the length of your comics?

You mean page count I’m guessing? Well, a lot of the time I don’t, really, especially with doodle comics; I thumbnail focusing on the key events, join them up, and then see where I stand. Much of the time I end up shuffling things around to give the story enough ‘breathing space’ but try to edit out panels that double up or just feel like clutter. The exception to this would be TPoH, where I wanted every chapter to have the same number of pages (19), so I thumbnail those with that limit in mind, but again, I often end up shuffling panels about to let it have enough room. Cramming too many panels onto a page can make it difficult to fit the speech bubbles in, and sometimes an image just begs to have a whole page to itself. My job is to listen to the story and give it the best environment I can, and on the whole I put that priority above page count.

Anonymous asked: How do you think Jose and Panchito would react to Gladstone if Donald introduced them?

Ooh, fun idea! I’m guessing Donald would have told them about Gladstone and what A Pain he is and what with their close bro being so at odds with this dude they would mostly likely troll the living shit out of him.

momijihyuga804 asked: I had a dream with Gladstone in it last night I can't really remember much of it but I know he was in there and I just wanna let you know it's your fault

I regret absolutely nothing

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sarroora:

Somebody plz send me cute panels of Fethry because my folder needs more.

He’s such a cutie 

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