Still working on the plant character design. I liked how the lighting came out in this one, but like the last rejected panel the colors got too bland.

Tough to get these looking on-screen as they do on the paper!

Here’s another ink doodle with paint applied haphazardly, with more improvisation in ink on top of the wash. Scale, perspective … these things are for lesser artistes. Ah, I see my long-handled cigarette holder has set my beret on fire. Back in a bit.

This one turned out a little too monochrome – too many washes of essentially the same colors. It’s supposed to be a dim bar, but not a dull picture. The composition is too symmetrical. And that bowtie, ugh, don’t even get me started.

I might try augmenting this style with some collage.

That’s not where he was supposed to be walking, but that’s where he ended up.

I’m blowing through the watercolor paper pretty quickly these days— big piles of discards with half-painted panels or random daubs of color. Sometimes the daubs are more interesting than the panels. So I’m trying out some collage work with these leftover bits. The first one got a little out of hand, but this crop of it looks okay.

This is probably the sixth or seventh version of this panel I’ve made. You can follow the play-by-play via the related links below this post.

This go-round was mostly to see if I could do any interesting pen textures (like the wallpaper pattern). They look okay but I don’t think they’re worth the extra elbow grease.

The original version was too bland; this version is too dire. Fun to really lay on the ink, though.

I forgot to paint the cigar. It looks like he’s chomping on a dry erase marker.