Everything I draw ends up wearing a bow-tie

so I have four doodle comics in the rough stage of WIP so maybe I need help

also anons keep asking for the process and, guys, really it’s like a hot mess right up to the finish line but my rough sketches generally come in three styles namely 1) there was an attempt, 2) i tried and 3) didn’t need to spend this long on the sketch considering I’ll prolly redraw it entirely when getting to final

Sorry friend I am a bit rushed on being able to make tutorials (and on the whole I save them for my Patreon)- but here’s some reference I’ve used and some step by steps? Finding good character model sheets online is a lifesaver and helps you understand how to ‘build’ the ducks in a way that feels tangible. For some poses everything sort of happens all at once, but with some more complicated ones I find I have to really break down the body into shapes and lay the details and cloth on top of it. Always try to keep the energy of the sketch though, and think about your line of action! As for beaks hell I don’t even know I’m still having trouble with them =__=

there is a lot of me shamelessly making Scrooge be adorable in this doodle comic

anon asking about how I start drawing doodle comics/what I count as a doodle comic- basically they’re comics which I try not to ‘go over’, so most of the drawings are a one shot and are almost never clean. First thing after roughly sketching the whole caboodle and typing in the dialogue is drawing the incidental characters and establishing shots; places and people that show up in the background a few times to keep the story grounded. I can largely do these left handed too, so it means I save my right (more dominant) hand for the main cast. I also always try to keep in mind that my last drawings will be better than my first, so as dire as the temptation to start with them is I try to leave the ‘best’ character drawings until last.

I also cheat like the devil to avoid doing any massive time-taking proper perspective because I’m awful.

thanks for all the kind messages today, I’m just taking it steady and working on the doodle comic for a break- here’s some happy for your trouble :’D

y’all don’t know how many versions these doodle comics go through anyway deleted scene sketches where Gladstone ought by right to have been Blown To Pieces by a spell gone wrong but luck happens- Magica mildly fascinated about the fact he doesn’t have a hole through him like ‘idk whether to be relieved or super mad that it didn’t work’. edited out bc it didn’t fit the page flow :/

also I didn’t even realise how shippy these were until now, gad.

aka. yes I’m working on another doodle comic

So I have folks asking about my process/what I count as a doodle comic a fair bit, and the answer is it kind of changes? mostly I guess doodle comics are a) fan comics of some sort and b) not ‘finished’ finished they usually have scribbly bgs or structure lines left in them. Mostly my drawing process is like above- a loose silhouette or line sketch, then some blocking in and refinement, complicated objects/establishing shots, and then line art last if I can be bothered ahaha um. 

Generally I do thumbnails for all the pages and then work the dialogue over it, which I usually have a vague idea for but I always change it and try to streamline it as I go; I’m more visually driven, so I almost always start with image and then move on to the words. Sometimes (like the bottom image here) there are panels that I want to get down on the paper/screen before they melt out of my brain, so I just start and let the energy bubble out while it’s there.