I really, really want

THIS

to be real.

But it probably won’t be.

Which is far, far too bad.

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Art-wise, big changeup today as I try out some stuff. Lots of Walt Kelly studies going on right now, playing with thicker linework, more hatching, bolder blacks in the background, and a surrealist color palette for BG elements.

I’m having fun with it. We’ll see how much of it sticks.

The big character change is pupils to the eyes, which I decided to try so that I could more easily get some extra expressions (eyerolls) and because controlling gaze with little-orphan-annie eyes is really hard.

Let me know what you think, if you have an opinion.