Heyoooo~





So normally I start the year by uploading something from last year (or the year before...) that only just got finished in January. Well, I drew all this... in maybe the last 2? 3 hours? Something like that. So if you watched the video I made about changing my name to GreenLinzerd (if you didn't, then no pressure) then you may recall me naming three webcomics which I was really inspired by. You may go further and recall that the third was called "Uh-oh, It's a Dinosaur" . You may then go still further and recall that the banner I showed depicted some cute green reptilian thing with pink hair. Bravo, what a good memory you have!





After searching the comic up to get that image, I kind of left it open... and thought to myself, I kind of want to take a look at what's happening. After all, I haven't checked in since around late 2013, maybe early 2014. And it turned out that the big grand huge story arc had just finished in August 2018 and was now on a break. Wow, I said, he just finished it a short time ago? It all started in 2009! So I decided to reread it all over again... now I'm up to 2017 and still enjoying it.





But what is the comic about? Basically, a shy depressed cartoonist called Paul gets a mysterious package in the mail. He opens it to find Kyra, a talking lizard... possibly dinosaur? who escaped from a secret lab. Thus ensues a tale of wacky adventures, slices-of-life, character development, and two mysterious secret agents trying to get Kyra back.







So why is this comic so important? Well, I didn't exactly establish that to begin with, but it is. To me. And a seemingly criminally small number of readers. Seriously, the only fanart I've seen is a small section on the website, of about a dozen images. That's baloney! But yeah, I'd always liked reptiles and thought they were cool. However, I'd never had a reptilian character, I don't think... except for a couple of really old ones who didn't count. But after this, I was inspired to make my own small green female lizard with spikes, stripes, yellow eyes and a red eyelash-like marking. Her name was Pandora! (Seen here on the right.)

...Yeah, the more I think about it the more the plagiarism becomes apparent. But anyway, that eventually led to me getting into scalies as I am today. So without this green lizard, I would probably not be a green lizard myself! But I'd never drawn fanart before. And after not drawing at all for a week or two, I got the urge, and drew some Kyras. I kind of adapted her to my style a bit, but also tried to be faithful to the wacky, loose style of Andrew Bilitz, the creator. That's kind of how I did these so quickly. And... she kind of just flowed really easily out of the pen (odd choice of words, I know, but you get my meaning). She was clearly designed with such looseness and expressiveness in mind. In fact, the four reference pics I used were all off-model from each other. Ol' Andrew keeps forgetting to add the back spikes in standalone drawings he does. Likewise, there seems to be no consensus on what her markings are like. And the hair is most variable of all. On the plus side, that makes her very easy to draw (although I did just notice that I gave her humanoid shoulders in the top-right drawing out of habit, oops). The only part I really had trouble with was the legs. He's really good at drawing miniature raptor legs.





So here she is, and she's very precious. I think this page of the comic is a good introduction to Kyra and her struggles to understand human things, no context required. And I think this description might set a record for longest time spent typing, versus time spent drawing. Very unnecessary, but I had stuff to say, so what can you do.





If there's enough of a response to this, maybe I'll draw out the bottom right one all nice and polished like... but not too polished of course, wouldn't want to ruin the spontaneous energy of her design.





Oh, and would you look at that? It's my new "Linzer" signature.





