Cartoons from many years ago

[mockduck]

Item has been taken on a day trip with friends, and The Boy and I spent the morning sorting out the cupboard under the stairs (yep, we know how to live). Not many surprises, but for me, the high point was finding a big cardboard box of loads of my old sketchbooks and artwork. All my MA stuff is in there, and lots and lots of pictures that will

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[alexandriash]

Here from Twitter.
Hello!

The second one is my favorite. :-)

[mockduck]

Hello! Nice to see you here :)

[ratphooey]

Nice work, there!

[sabethea]

Oh, these are brilliant. In a slightly ouchy way sometimes.

And I rather like the fact that the friend has one and a half arms and it's just not something worth commenting on, it's just how things happen sometimes. Normalising!Disability for the win :)

[mockduck]

Well, thank you! I'm retrospectively rather pleased with myself for the disabled character, even if I can't remember exactly what led to her inclusion.

[huskyteer]

Yes, I liked that! And the way it's obvious from the first cartoon that they've been mates for donkeys' years.

[sleepygoldfish]

Yes these are simpler, lines more definite, a little less detail, I like them a lot. They are a bit more Usborne books? I used to love those books so much and they certainly informed my people drawing. The balance is great and pacing. My favourite is the cinema visually speaking; I just love the hatchy shading constrasting with the clean line shading of the chairs and how the front row is so detailed in comparison to the rest. The way the form is so paired down in the back row - like ghostly amorphic figures but not quite. Nice!

[mockduck]

Thank you. I'm guessing these were done around the same time as my MA, so perhaps I was drawing and thinking about line and form and stroy-telling a lot more than now. It just goes to show.