Episode 218: “Quack!”

I have wanted to draw this scene for so long! Waddlebottom versus a dragon!

Such a ridiculous scene, I put a commensurate ridiculous amount of time into drawing and coloring it! 🙂

A big difference with this page was in the ‘inking.’ I usually draw the figures and elements with a “cartoony” outline (a la my favorite cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Carl Barks and Jeff Smith) and add weight and shadow in the coloring stage. In this case, I drew the heavy shadows in the inking stage – and inked as if it were my coloring process, with lots and lots of hatching and textures.

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— Steve @theSteveConley