Cartoon Background Challenge - Inside The House

This is week two of the cartoon Background challenge I’m currently involved in.

Here is the breakdown of the challenge:

Five weeks, four sketches per week:

Week 1. Outside the house (may vary different sizes and/or types of homes)
Week 2. Inside the house (can be in the same or different rooms)
Week 3. In the city
Week 4. Park or countryside
Week 5. Wilderness or jungle

Each week focuses on different approaches to the location such as:

-high view
-low view
-close up
-wide angle

The goal is pushing ourselves to get out of our default approach to backgrounds that we draw, and to sketch a whole bunch of different backgrounds.

Thanks to David Greene for joining in the challenge.

Mouse-Eye View

This is the initial rough sketch that the cartoon at the top of the page was based on.

Caption Practice

Seeing as I created the cartoon, it seemed like a good opportunity to do some caption practice as well.

1. The mouse had been working out.

2. It wasn’t what Tigger expected to emerge from the mousehole

3. She never expected the dog to do that

4. Look what the cat didn’t drag in

5. She was pretty certain that mice shouldn’t get that big

6. It looked like the mouse had brought reinforcements

7. The cat encounters the Roomba for the first time.

   View From Bottom Of Kitchen Sink

Given my tendency to insert monsters and strange thingies into cartoons, I thought this would be an interesting cartoon to try out.

Here’s the finished version. I never got around to decided what the thingy lurking at the bottom of the sink was…

To try to simulate the effect of looking through the water at the woman, I warped the layer a bit.