here’s an old patreon reward to fill in the drawing-hiatus void a bit; something I get asked about a lot is the ‘acting’ in my comics and how to be subtle with conveying emotions. The answer is mostly experience and constantly observing people in real life to learn about expressions, but knowing when to ‘dial up’ or ‘dial down’ emotion is very important! context is king- this is basically the same advice that Carl Barks gave on one of his reference sheets here (in a much more succinct manner!):
hands are still toast so here’s some old NITW reward art from Patreon which I figure i can post now :’D
this started out as just trying to practice drawing beaks straight on and uh idk what to tell you I just kept going
sneak preview! slowly picking up doodle comics again, also I know it’s like a running joke by now that the doodle comic with the cat is never gonna happen but I’ve dropped doing that one (for now) in favour of this story because the cat one has a billion bg characters and environments whereas the setting for this is like… a big empty lake. with a boat. which is an awful lot easier.
so yeah it’s gonna be a hot while ‘til I finish it while don’t wait up but thought it’d be nice to at least give you a head’s up :’D
I LOVE YOU PEOPLE thank you for tolerating/understanding my absurd taste I’m really glad you all like this tragicomical duck otp as much as I do :’D
also of course he did don’t be silly
anons enabling me like this you’re all terrible but this was nice to try and get my hands back into sketching with so thanks
Part two! Also sorry for sad theory town. Well, not really ‘cause I’ve been living with this headcanon for like most of my life and sharing is caring right??? ahahahahahhsorry
master post of all tumblr duck doodle comic posts here or you can read them here on my website!
now before you all start yelling at me for still working when I’m busted up THIS WAS LIKE 90% DONE I just had to add the speech bubbles so shush
the deal with Gladstone’s parents is based off this bit of trivia (source) although I still think of Goosetave Gander being his father in keeping with Don Rosa’s widely-accepted-as-canon family tree;
part one of two! part two is up here! or read it all full size here on my website
another duck art trade- this time for @glxdstones whos art always makes me smile! :D hope you like scribbly lines pal ahahahh (we both love our cousin buddy boys so decided to draw them for each other)
