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COMIC: Zippity-do-dah! (p. 6)

Published: August 5th 2024, 12:01:45 am

Ho-hoooooooo! DONE! The boot zipper repair comic that I started about eight months ago is now, at last, completed!

As before, I started with a digital mock-up of what I wanted the panel to look like:

Then I cut out each individual shape from my paper stash.

  I realized the original title banner ("Zippity-do-dah") just... didn't look right. I'd freehanded it without looking at reference, so this time I went back and painstakingly attempted to pin a real ribbon into the same position so I could draw it accurately... only to realize that the position I was trying to recreate looks awkward and bad in real life, not the way a ribbon would naturally move.

 So then I did a second attempt, following the natural bend of the ribbon (for the most part) and drew from that. Oh! Around this point I realized that instead of a ribbon, I could make it a free-floating zipper length! SO CLEVER.

Finally, I put all the pieces together! Taaaah-DAHHHHHHH!

Next post, I'll show 'em all together.