#075 Le Gasp

First off, GO VOTE FOR US! We’re in an art contest at Top Web Comics, so hop on over and give us a vote. The contest theme is Dwarf on Vacation, so go see what hilarity we sketched up. You can vote once a day, like most TWC things. Click Here to go vote!

Second off…

This page, man. This. Page.

I sketched up a storyboard for it. Scanned the storyboard directly because I was in a time crunch to get things done. The original layout had the birds panicking and running away from Joe. Finished the first panel and my brain went, “Hm, you know, they look like they’re nesting.” And suddenly… the birds didn’t want to be running AWAY anymore. Because a nesting mama is not something you wanna mess with! With not a lot of time to redraw anything, I had to scrap my pencil guides and go full digital on panels three and four. I also flipped the concept pencils around for the bottom panel and worked from there. Sister made a surprise appearance that wasn’t in the plan, too.

Then I shot it over to Sonya, who made the colors pretty and put in the text for the birds once again. Late at night. When we should have all been sleeping.

Will someone please tell these pages that they’re not allowed to change their mind last-minute like this? We have schedules to keep!

Sonya Edit: added the appropriate link to the contest. 🙂 Clicky Click