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When I submitted my crush comic 'Bubba - Watch Your Step' on Monday, I mentioned how the comic originated in some sketches I started almost FIVE YEARS ago in Summer 2010. They were the very first pictures I had ever drawn of Bubba, who at that point was just a nameless fat duck that I had fantasised about stomping on people.
Obviously five years is a long time, and after a while I throw out my old drawings once I've either uploaded them or redone them. Those early sketches I did in 2010 are long gone now and I never scanned them in. But while I was rooting around on my hard drive recently, I discovered that I had actually taken a couple of photographs of them - both dated September 2010.
The picture on the left shows the FIRST EVER drawing of Bubba. It was a fairly experimental piece I remember doing in order to try out the idea of a fatter duck character than the one I'd drawn in 'Mike - Duck'd' earlier that year. As you can probably see, his proportions are rather different from the design I ultimately developed, looking a bit thinner in the face and slightly leaner overall, while the feet are a different shape too.
The picture on the right shows the second picture of Bubba which, to my recollection, was probably drawn the day after the first one. His face looks slightly fatter though his overall proportions still differ from the current design - particularly the legs, which look bizarrely weedy by comparison.
Funnily enough though, even though these sketches were mere experiments that led to the creation of Bubba and the 'Watch Your Step' comic, there are elements of them which you may see are very similar to some of the final panels. The pose and angle I sketched in the left-hand piece here was subsequently developed through a series of later sketches to become Panel 11 in the comic, while the right-hand sketch proved heavy inspiration for Panels 17 and 18 - in fact, the beak is almost an exact copy produced by numerous tracings.
Anyway, just a random discovery I thought I would share with you all. Never before have I been able to show you the very first drawing in existence of one of my characters. So there you have it - Bubba's very first stomp.
RRRex
Obviously five years is a long time, and after a while I throw out my old drawings once I've either uploaded them or redone them. Those early sketches I did in 2010 are long gone now and I never scanned them in. But while I was rooting around on my hard drive recently, I discovered that I had actually taken a couple of photographs of them - both dated September 2010.
The picture on the left shows the FIRST EVER drawing of Bubba. It was a fairly experimental piece I remember doing in order to try out the idea of a fatter duck character than the one I'd drawn in 'Mike - Duck'd' earlier that year. As you can probably see, his proportions are rather different from the design I ultimately developed, looking a bit thinner in the face and slightly leaner overall, while the feet are a different shape too.
The picture on the right shows the second picture of Bubba which, to my recollection, was probably drawn the day after the first one. His face looks slightly fatter though his overall proportions still differ from the current design - particularly the legs, which look bizarrely weedy by comparison.
Funnily enough though, even though these sketches were mere experiments that led to the creation of Bubba and the 'Watch Your Step' comic, there are elements of them which you may see are very similar to some of the final panels. The pose and angle I sketched in the left-hand piece here was subsequently developed through a series of later sketches to become Panel 11 in the comic, while the right-hand sketch proved heavy inspiration for Panels 17 and 18 - in fact, the beak is almost an exact copy produced by numerous tracings.
Anyway, just a random discovery I thought I would share with you all. Never before have I been able to show you the very first drawing in existence of one of my characters. So there you have it - Bubba's very first stomp.
RRRex
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Yeah, I actually had a look through my stash of paper drawings before I uploaded this just to see whether I still had any of those old ones left, but I think I got rid of them a while ago. I still have loads of the drafts I did from when I started redrawing the whole comic last year, but nothing else from those really early days.
I know how fast artists go through paper. I helped out an artist myself, organize all of their sketchbooks too. It's kind of sad though, at least for me, that a lot of art never sees the light of day. But I understand now why artists do that, but in my opinion, all art, even if it's stick figures, is meaningful. People still go nuts over Picasso art.
If anything you could make a Google Docs, or a Dropbox and store everything there, sure it'd take forever to digitize stuff, but I think it'd be worth it.
If anything you could make a Google Docs, or a Dropbox and store everything there, sure it'd take forever to digitize stuff, but I think it'd be worth it.
Heh - well I guess to me most of it just isn't worth digitising. A lot of it is merely earlier drafts of my final pictures, which ultimately look largely the same as the coloured piece that ends up on the internet but with various missing bits and smudgemarks! I do however keep quite a lot of the final drafts - i.e. the drawings that were actually scanned in.
Honestly I don't think an awful lot about my drawing ability has changed in the last four or five years. I drew some utter crap back in 2007-08 but then I suppose my attitude was different in those days and I lacked anything like the kind of anatomical knowledge I have now.
The paper is just standard white printer paper. A4 size (which I think is the rough equivalent of Letter size in US categories), probably 80gsm or something. Might just look a bit funky on these sketches as they were photographs on which I've had to heavily alter the contrast to get the damn things to show up properly!
The paper is just standard white printer paper. A4 size (which I think is the rough equivalent of Letter size in US categories), probably 80gsm or something. Might just look a bit funky on these sketches as they were photographs on which I've had to heavily alter the contrast to get the damn things to show up properly!
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