Playing about with this stencil/spongepainting style in photoshop. I decided to do a little 'fan art' from "Kung Fu Panda," in this case, one of the rhino guards. Just playing about to get a better feel of the filters/style.

Messing about with the sponge painting thing. This would be fun for a kids' book, if I could come up with a story. Both done with photoshop.

This is the first 36 pages of Tamino all put together in thumbnails. It's the first time I've ever even thought about a color key or any such thing. In this case, about 6 pages in, I realized I wanted to tell the story in 4s. The layout and this beat are meant to feel very steady over the length of the comic, so that when I do play with them, a jarring sense is more acute to the reader, or so I hope. Looking at the comic this way also helps me see where to tweak things, and I also now realize that looking at a set of 4 at a time before publishing helps smooth things out.

Title card for a T+D cartoon. TV is perfect now; there are no faded old prints or even projectors any more and reception isn't an issue. So why am I nostalgic for this kind of crappy reproduction? Damned if I know..