039: Mostly Armless
May 4, 2023
He speaks! I guess it’s probably not a big stretch of the imagination, talking robots already being a ‘normal’ part of life on the island.
I actually had a lot of back and forth on this panel. I couldn’t decide if I wanted swearing to be a part of the comic. I knew I wanted the goose character to be surly and mouthy, but I wasn’t sure I wanted actual “adult language” in the comic universe. How much do swear words really add, via text? I was going to do the classic “F#@%” swearing, but then I thought “what if his swearing is swapped for honking?”. Since he was really going to be the only character who swears, I think this is a much funnier solution. I still may have swear words, but very, very occasionally and only when it’s hilarious.
I’m quite enjoying getting to draw the ‘reaction’ poses, like Sam in the last panel. I feel like I need to go back and refresh my memory with old school Looney Tunes and Scooby Doo. I’m stuck in my style of ‘mostly anatomically accurate’ humans, with elbows and knees and necks and stuff. It helps to have a good solid grasp of human anatomy, and how to build a pose from the base skeletal structure.
Generally start with a circle for the head and a line for the spine, then add hips, shoulders, legs and arms as a basic line. ONLY then should you start adding muscles and skin, and only THEN should you add clothes.
