Halloween Cartoons, and A Boring Door to Nowhere Made Slightly More Fanciful
This post is all about laughs and eye-candy. Enjoy!
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As we’re close to celebrating Halloween, I thought I’d post some haunted Rhymes With Orange cartoons (as some of you may know, I write and draw the daily syndicated cartoon panel Rhymes With Orange along with my collaborator and creator of the strip, Hilary Price).
Hope you enjoy these!
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And lastly…A boring door to nowhere made slightly more fanciful
Actually, it’s the door that houses the small closet where my hot water tank sits
…which is a non-place, I guess. The bottom of the door is not finished because I couldn’t get my drawing hand to reach down that far without lying down on the floor and that was not an option due to my fear of a stray centipede getting on me. I didn’t finish the top because I was drinking wine and didn’t want to fall off the step ladder and break my neck.
It took me a few evenings, a bushel of markers, and cheap wine.
At first I was scared of taking a sharpie to the wall without some kind of plan as to what I was doing, so I used a pencil. After some time, my confidence grew and I ditched the pencil and went straight at it with markers and paint. It’s way more fun to draw “freestyle” without the crutch of pencil lines to guide you. Thoughts that I might make mistakes were short-lived. I was in doodle land, and it felt right. Freestyle mural-type drawing can be daunting, but once you take the leap, the freedom of just not giving a shit is pretty fulfilling.
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Wow, that Mental Canvas scene!
What an imagination. I could see you doing a comic about that magical door. A cartoon version of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Dictating excuse, typos!