Turnaround Party!! (Patreon)

Hey, Sneak Peek patrons! Here are some turnarounds I worked on while I was in Denmark for Miranda, Nicole, Kris, and Paul (Berto, Meighan, and Bryan are still a wip). 

I've spent a lot of time tweaking and simplifying, and experimenting with character-specific color schemes without being too over-the-top (Miranda and Nicole's color is gold; Kris's color is a reddish purple; Paul's is computer screen blue; Berto will be some kind of green). Nudging the hue of the dark linework toward each character's color did the trick!

I've also been tinkering with styles a lot. I love the idea of simplifying my linework more, but some of the personality gets lost when I pare down the lines. Take Kris's initial simplified design, versus to the more "typical Danielle style" I landed on:

Not that everything about the first ones were bad, just... not really me. And definitely not Kris.

At some point I even thought I might get rid of the linework entirely. I applied this to Miranda and Nicole's designs... 

...but ultimately there's just so much more story in those first drawings, even the imperfect black-and-white sketches. It was a fun experiment, though!

On the topic of simplifications, I redrew the first Miranda strip I made a few weeks ago to simplify and clarify it a bit, and landed on a pretty happy medium that I'll refer back to when I start drawing the finished pages:

And I actually drew two versions of Pauls' turnarounds. I wasn't gonna show you, but, fuck it, I just won't tell you why. ;) 

Thanks for letting me share these with you guys! It makes all the work feel a lot more justified, and I love letting you in on what I'm doing to prepare for the book.

And now if you'll excuse me, I need to see the town librarian about an elephant. That'll make more sense in a year or two. ;)

Let me know what you think about these in the comments, if you have any thoughts! Even critical thoughts, those are always welcome!