Whubble - w80

w80

July 21st, 2011 | by admin

Posted In: comics

Well technically it’s my birthday, but why not make it Whubble’s as well, and use it as an excuse to post a new strip up. Happy birthday Whubble!
Woo, so, it’s been a year since any new Whubble strips. Really sorry about that, hope this might help in some small way. It was weird to draw – clearly my style has changed a little bit since I did the last ones. I draw Whubbles quite large, bigger than they need to be, because I like how my linework gets thinner when it’s shrunk down. This one I drew just the same size as previously, but my line still looks thicker and looser to me. I don’t mind it, it’s natural to change a bit over time (and I’ve become far more used to inking in the bolder style of my other, more adult, office webcomic Corporate Skull), but I wonder if it looks inconsistent.
Anyway, before I deconstruct everything I’m doing, I’ll leave it. I would still like to return to drawing Whubbles regularly, I just need to find some time, and it’s in short supply these days. But sometime yes :)

R_G_R

July 21, 2011 at 2:44 am | #

I needed my dose of Whubble :). Happy Birthday by the way ^^.

bairdduvessa

July 21, 2011 at 4:21 am | #

happy birthday

Spoony

July 21, 2011 at 8:25 am | #

Oh, this is welcome! And (too) many happy returns to you and Whubble!

Satsy

July 21, 2011 at 9:42 am | #

You’ve got and done so many comics I never know which ones I know about and which ones are going to surprise me out of nowhere (like this one). So I read the archives. ;)

I get what you mean about the changes in your line-work — If you go from this one to the old ones its all well and good, but somehow jarring when you come at it from the other way. It still works and you can still tell its your stuff and all that, it just comes across… different. I mean a year can change your art drastically, as well as the way you approach things.

I don’t know what you use for line-work, but after starting with some thick art pens wayyy back when I’ve spent the last few years trying to find the bestest of thinner pens so I can draw bigger, thinner and more detailed. I found the UniPin fine-liners are good for that and go all the way down to a 0.05 nib (pretty dang thin). Copic has a multiliner range as well and that goes down to 0.03 (may as well be drawing with a hair) and I’ve found that’s way too much. Dunno if that helps you in any way though, as I don’t actually know what you use to draw! ;) Just passing along something I’ve learned (to someone further along in the game than me– MAN I’m gonna stop now).