Dated 05/10/2013

If only Scooby-Doo was bigger. He'd never fear any of those phony ghouls ever again.

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Yeah. That's right. I drew Scooby.



I've always liked Scooby. I can't deny that when I used to watch Scooby-Doo as a kid, my mind might have wandered to thoughts of his big paws on more than one occasion. But I had never really ever given serious thought to drawing him until a recent conversation about 'guilty pleasure characters' on our forums over at Eccentricities in which Scooby-Doo's name came up. Admitting therein that I was quite keen on the character, I suddenly found myself curious about whether I could draw Scooby - and receiving strong encouragement from certain folks to try it.

(Remember that,  chaoscomm ? )

Of course, with a mind like mine, it doesn't take long for me to come up with a bunch of mischievous ideas for any character. And once I had with Scoob, I knew I needed to give it a try, especially because it seems the fandom is suffering from a severe deficit of giant heavy thumping Scooby feets.



As ever with a character I've never drawn before, I started by spending several days doing lots of training sketches (some of which I will probably end up adding to a future Character Training Compilation in my Scraps) in order to familiarise myself with the character and the Hanna-Barbera style. Then I started working on the actual picture on Thursday.

I have to say, I had great fun doing this piece. Considering I only started drawing it on Thursday, it was a refreshingly quick and smooth process - I'd already finished the linework and coloured the scan by Friday morning, then got all the shading done today. Some of the proportions are not quite right (especially those back legs), the background is a classic lazy gradient copout, and the style isn't 100% faithful to the original. But I genuinely like it. It's one of those relatively few pieces of mine that actually makes me smile when I look at it. Not least for the amusingly cute-looking ghost about to be stomped.

And before you ask, yes, I will be drawing more of Scooby in future. No question. I enjoyed doing this and already have several other ideas I know I'd like to try at some point.



I know it's been a relatively quiet year from me on the art front, though things might be picking up. If I keep my head down, I might actually have another picture finished within the next couple of days. So keep your eyes peeled.



RRRex