Latest quartet for Tamino. A little experimental even for this comic. So near the end. Four more like this at best, I think.

Some more playing about, both with Marcus and Lucco. The Marcus drawings have no reference, they're just poses I threw together. The Lucco uses a screen grab from a cartoon I don't know with a boxing rabbit and turtle. All of this helps me learn.

Some practice Luccos and an upcoming Tamino page I liked. All the stuff I was doing with the WB copies is, I hope, showing up in my own work. That's what it's all about.

More work on this character for no reason other than I'm starting a new sketch pad. Marcus the mopey mule is his name. His parents were punk rockers when they were in high school and want their son to be a similar rebel. Marcus really isn't interested. I think his feet could be even bigger.

More playing about with WB reference images. These two are both from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. The test is finding out how much of this works with my version of the character and what is just adding detail for the sake of detail.

I got distracted yesterday by looking through an old sketchpad of mine. I came across some drawings I did for a friend of a mule character inspired by the rubber hose school of animation. So I thought to put together a simple Illustrator image for him and did. From there, I kept going, designing a mule character for no other reason than to do so. The later drawings were fleshed out by using Looney Tunes screen captures for reference. This is an amazing drawing tool as it gets me to think not only more about volume in my characters but forces me to translate and by doing so, has me make editorial choices about their very design. So, a couple days of distraction and fun for me.

The next quartet for Tamino. Getting very close to the end indeed.