Old sketches
Someone asked me how long I’ve been drawing, and the answer is a tad embarassing.
I’ve only been drawing for perhaps 5 months or so. Prior to that, I wasn’t even sketching or doodling for fun. The last art class I took was probably in 7th grade.
So drawing this strip involved learning a whole new skill set for me and I’m still developing my style. Expect the characters to change over time. Even now I can see signficant differences between what I’m drawing now and my initial sketches a few months ago.
Here’s a few initial sketches on scratch paper:
The above was from around late October 2008. As you can see, I decided to make Toad slightly leaner and younger looking.
This was from around the same time period.
Basically I knew what my characters were, their personalities and how they interacted, but how they actually looked like was one of the last steps in the process.
I sorta like with how they look like now, but I’m still working for more consistency between panels.
