urgh, the most galling thing about my hands still being wrecked is I was SO CLOSE to finishing this next doodle comic (if I was able to work normally I’d finish it in like, 4 days max) and I have cold too now?!?! weak. anyway here’s some costume design/colour prep for the next NEXT doodle comic
also bonus super scribble deleted scene from the end which has changed now but heck I still think it’s cute even without context so fight me
There’s an old Carl Barks comic with Gladstone in it which opens with: “if this was a fairytale, it would probably start like this; Once upon a time there was a Great King of Luck…” or something along those lines. It’s such an unusual intro and I always thought that was a cute idea- Gladstone being a lonely king or prince of luck, but what if one day a ‘wicked’ witch came to the kingdom to shake things up… and then he wasn’t quite so lucky, or so lonely, ever after?
I been working really hard lately SO time for magicstone doodle reward! I seem to remember reading that witches have to brush their hair 100 times every morning or something? dunno if the same applies to sorceresses but it would be a cute thing to help out with =v=
so I’ve been basically avoiding? learning to draw Gladstone’s hat properly for 2 years and there ain’t no excuse for that (also it is sort of important in the next comic so time to Sit Down and Study) I’m nearly there I think but for those interested in the process (which is similar to how I learn to draw Most Stuff):
a) figure out what kind of hat it is - either a homburg or a fedora (NOT A TRILBY DON’T YOU M’LADY ME) in most comics or at least some sort of crazy hybrid. a homdora. fedburg… a ferg. then like, try drawing real ones of those a while and start edging towards stylising them for comic usage.
b) quickly realize the comics know how to do this much better than I do so look at those real hard and figure out how to break them down for drawing/start blending the notes I had on Real Hats with those to get the look I want
c) get some sort of semblance of understanding of the drawing of hats which is not at all perfect but is at least less bad and uninformed than I was 24 hours ago and I can use to build on and hopefully get better at it as I keep drawing lots and lots of hats forever and ever and eeever