Winter Weeds (like, the opposite of an outtake) (Patreon)

So, today's Elephant Town page was supposed to look like this digital mockup on the left (I know, it's practically finished, but I treated it like a proof and used the lines as "pencils" for my hand-drawn inks):

I used a premade brush to lay down some "weeds" in the mockup, just to get a feel for the placement. 

But when it came time to ink weeds all over the original art, I got cold feet. I wanted the weeds to feel like Shepherdstown weeds (I wanted them to be native plants, insert nerd-emoji here), and also I couldn't decide on an overall shape for the weeds to fill, because the weeds in the mockup felt a little distracting.

So I spent an hour last night looking up native weeds and drawing them. And then got up this morning and kept drawing them. And now I wanna toss all my future plans out the window and just paint native weeds.

But, well, this was meant to be practice for adding weeds to today's page, so I made these into silhouettes and dropped them into the file...

And they worked just fine as-is! So I'm gonna make a little less work for myself, and just let this be the final page. 

Here's the original page (forgive me, it's a crappy screen cap) next to the newly weedy one, for reference:

If it wasn't so damn cold and unpleasant out, I'd be outside picking dead plants to study right now! Maybe Wednesday, when things warm up a little...