GAIL RESPONDS TO NEWS

A return to single page sketches after a long time away. I'm trying something here, seeing if a little roughness (ie including a faint pencil layer) does anything interesting. Ok, maybe I should just clean the lines and do what I said I was going to do. Anyway. here's a monsoonal moment with a North Queensland drizzle sky thrown in.

More cartoony.....?

Very quick 'un with the idea of what the characters would look like if more cartoony. I think I still prefer it a notch or two closer to the previous.

Gail at Costume Party

I had an idea of Gail in this garb in a multi pager. I'm feeling everyone should be a touch more cartoony (ie atouch more cartoony than here).

Ruth's Poolside Career Advice

Wow! This should've taken about half an hour. Three hours later.... Something has gone screwy between my tablet and my drawing program. I had to do a lot of resetting. searching for answers to questions I struggled to articulate (eg. my freehand lines all begin straight before curving) and having the eraser draw like a pen, among other time consuming disasters. I meant to nail this and get on with another project. But no ....

Gail and Ruth in judgement

Still working on how to show the texture of yellowed north Queensland lawn. This one's mainly to get them talking and show something of the relationship between Gail and Ruth. For this and the previous one with Marty I've used real uniform designs from my high school. So far back in time that I shouldn't worry but still .....