This character is the embodiment of
amusement and merriment. The original is kind of a fun harlequin, but
for the redraw I went straight clownin'. I think she manages to be
cute and not fall into the tiresome trap of “uh oh, as an adult all
clowns must now be creepy and scary ”. I hate that shit.
To make the redraw's pedal pusher print
I used text from the book “Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor”, of
which I proudly own a copy. The book, while also containing lots of
solid old-school jokes, has an absurdest quality to some parts of it
as this sort of dry and academic seeming person tries to describe
humor in textbook ways. I thought it fit nicely.
After I finished the redraw I realized
that the original had writing in her designs as well- all of the
emotion drawings do. It's in her purple wing-dealies (?) but I can't
remember nor make out what it says.
Art tips: I have learned something
since I drew this a couple weeks ago. I need to practice the
elongating effect that large open mouth expressions create on the
human head. For instance, in this redraw, if this character were to
close her mouth (based on the current design) she would appear to
have a tiny potato head on a hugely long neck because I didn't
elongate the jaw line enough.
Special notice: Each one of these
drawings takes around five hours to produce and making two a week has
made having a backlog impossible (hence the issues that therefore
rise then when something goes wrong). So after this week I will only
be posting one a week, probably on Thursdays.
This is good because it will allow me
more time to focus on each individual drawing and it also will give
me time to write more thoughtful write-ups. In addition it will allow
me more time to work on other things for the blog, business stuff,
and new collaborations/experiments.