Shmelephant Shmown (hopefully the last teaser!) (Patreon)

Happy Monday, gang! Despite the recent hiccup of unexpected Julie* Drama**, I'm plucking away at the first pages of the second half of Elephant Town and I'm on track to start dropping new pages next week!

For those who are new here:*Julie is my car, an aggressively safe and unreasonably chipper Kia Niro**the Drama is that the engine is dead and Suspect #1 is my neighborhood shop (the actual drama is that I'm a non-confrontational and nervous little mouse who's supposed to make them pay for it)

The first page gives away practically nothing, aside from Kris being very warm and unclothed, so I picked a couple no-spoilers panels from it to share here.

Here's a little gif of the process, from thumbnail sketch, to digital pencils, to inks, to flat colors, to rendered colors:

It feels so good to be working in ink on BIG bristol board again! My dailies are on little half-sheets of smooth, thin paper, which is like running with trainers on. I'm so ready to return to sexy variable-width brush pens on thick paper with a tooth.

Meanwhile, my camera roll is back to being populated with shameless reference photos of myself in various exaggerated positions.

And my drawing board is populated with copious scripts and doodles and ideas.

And now you know what that reference photo was for.

Looking forward to introducing you to the new character (doodled on the left with multiple hairstyles and looks) in a few days! Thanks for your patience with me as I try to get Julie back to her old singsongy self.