I’m going to go through the steps involved in creating this cartoon.
The car featured is a Jaguar E-type, I think it’s a series 1.
The dog is a black Labrador.
1. Here’s the initial rough sketch. As you can see, the basic idea was to have a dog doing what he had to do somewhere he shouldn’t.
I had an E-type in mind, as I’ve drawn them a few times and have always liked them.
2. Outline of the characters and background. I found a photo of a woman leaning on an E-type and based the above outline on it.
3. Adding washes to the background. I thought that I’d keep the cartoon monochrome, so decided just to use grey washes.
4. Colouring in the dog and car. I decided at this point to make it a Black Lab, as opposed to yellow or chocolate.
5. Finished cartoon.
6. Alternate version. I wanted to see how it would work with her yelling ‘Oi!’ as opposed to the caption being at the bottom of the page.
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