Redoing Dee Dee

The new style wasn't me

I’m starting my comic over again. It turns out you can do that on the web. This latest Dee Dee comic looks pretty different from the first ones I posted. Some people I trust told me they felt this new style I was trying wasn’t as charming as the Norma and Belly comics!!! Who was I trying to be, Scott Pilgrim one person even said. I won’t name their name here but they know who they are.

I ignored them as any artist should their critics and just kept drawing. But new ideas dried up and everything felt hard to do. After a few days of trying to ignore the feeling that maybe they were right I decided to go back to my early thumbnails and see if I had lost something along the way. The moment I saw my initial Dee Dee sketches from two years ago I knew I had made a wrong turn somewhere back there. The squirrel juice was low.

So I printed my thumbnails and tried tracing them in different sizes on different types of paper and using different brushes and pens. I am usually not this rigorous but I was really desperate so I had to try my best to be scientific. I am not done and still in the process but I have already learned many useful things. Like that my brush line style comes out best on paper with some tooth.

I hope you enjoy the newest Dee Dee comic. She will probably change as I keep learning and drawing the comic so I thank you in advance for coming along on this ride.