Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

Anonymous asked: I been pouring over your duck comics trying to figure out how you make them so damned real? like, you put them in serious and dramatic situations, but it never feels overly heavy handed or unrealistic in how they react to it- you know how to balance it with the comedy, you know when to hold back and make expressions subtle, you know when to go for broke and exaggerate, it's maddening! how?! do you do this I love them so much thank you for working so hard (also frock coat Gander makes perf sense)

oh my, oh thanks oh gosh :’D I guess it’s practice on top of having read the duck comics basically my whole life? I know it sounds weird and I say it all the time but these characters really are real to me; I put them in a situation or come up with a plot instigator, and then the rest is just sitting back and listening to how they would react to it. I’d say ‘thinking’ about how they’d react, but it isn’t even that, it’s letting the characters tell me what they would do- it’s more intuitive than writing, which I guess it is I don’t know what else to call it? but that’s basically how I write all my stories so bjsakfj anyway basically thank you this is a very kind message and it means a lot to me that you feel that way! (also Heck yeah it does)