Map cap inventor, Felix Losh, thought he had hit upon the ideal way to stay dry with his Rain Orb. The Rain Orb surrounded the user in a transparent bubble which they could roll themselves around in regardless of the wetness of the weather.
However, while on his way to the patent office he bumped into a wandering porcupine, and his dreams, his dryness and his orb were all popped.
How I came up with the idea
It was rainy reason when I came up with this cartoon, so I was thinking up alternative ways for folks to stay dry while they were out and about.
I had recently drawn a porcupine in a different cartoon, and so I wondered if I might be able to recycle him into a new image.
While pondering what the porcupine might pop with his quills, the idea of the rain orb popped into mind.
In this article I’m going to go through the process of creating this cartoon.
Initial Sketch
I’ve sketched this out using a 6B pencil in ProCreate.
Creating the palette.
I’ve started to put the pallete together that I’ll use to colour the cartoon with. As a reference, I pasted an image of Percy the Porcupine that I had drawn previously.
Colouring the picture
I’ve now started to colour in the picture using a digital watercolour brush. The opacity was set at 30% initially and then I gradually built up the depth of the tones.
The completed cartoon
I ended up doubling the colour layer so as to to increase the intensity of the colour. I also added a bolder outline around the characters. I decided to keep the underlying pencil layer as I liked the effect of the the outline on top of it, it seems to give more shape and depth to the picture.
What’s next?
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