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I said earlier in the week when I did the SS sketch that I wanted to do the next page this weekend, but there’s less to get through in the current part than I realized, and I noticed how close we are to the holidays, so I decided I should get a head start on some things in case the holidays end up eating too much time. I knew there was no way I was finishing something like a full SS page in the time I had left once Sunday hit so I decided to do something quicker. I took the chance to mess around with lines and tones again with these characters, although I used a pretty thick pen tool to really help speed things up.

I wasn’t in the mood to color but I just wanted to mess around with the character models. After I’ve got some other things to a certain point I’ve been considering messing around more with lined/toned stuff over weekends and wanted to see how these would look in case I want to try stuff with them. I’m not making any guarantees or anything, but I do like to keep my options open.

I’ve wanted to draw Kim and the tweebs for a while now, it just hasn’t been a high enough priority to get to; however, currently I’ve been in the mood to draw stuff with flatter and more cartoony styles so I figured it was a good opportunity. After reading the Lost Legends comic I’ve wanted to get back to trying to loosen up my linework by focusing less on excessive perfectionism, and utilizing blacks and such for cast shadows to try and make things look more suitable in flats (since I want to minimize color time during these).

In the last couple of illustrations I’ve sketched much more loosely with the pencil tool instead of a thin pen tool. For this one I even disabled pen stabilization, which is something that I’ve always left on during lining, since it would force me to draw the lines quicker as they’d get wobbly if I moved my arm slower, which would in turn reduce the accuracy anyway.

I was very short on time this weekend due to distracting plans on Friday so I wanted to do something simpler with flatter colors. I’ve also been wanting to work on figuring out lining methods that work best with flats so it worked out in that regard.

I stole the color scheme for Mabel from the first story in the new Lost Legends comic, but it just felt most appropriate from the sample outfits I had in regards to having the yellow emoji on it, which I felt that emoji an appropriate sweater symbol for this.

There is a “cleaner” version of this image as well, which you should be able to navigate between with the right and left arrow keys, or clicking the “Prev” and “Next” buttons below the image.

I wanted to draw one of my usual girls, and while trying to decide I was bothered by the lack of drawing Penny with Brain the last time I drew her so I had to get this out of the way to add balance to the universe.

I decided to do a messier creampie version of this image as well, which you should be able to navigate between with the right and left arrow keys, or clicking the “Prev” and “Next” buttons below the image.

I did some things differently this time with the style than last time. This is partly to try simplifying some things, and partly to see how certain other things look with different choices. The characters are normally in 3D in a non-cel shaded manner, so converting them to 2D requires some trial and error, which can’t really be explored that much in a single drawing. For the most part I’m quite satisfied with how the models look and may do something with them again some time in the future.