I was thinking of a general array of my favorite ’80s cartoons (Teddy Ruxpin, the Fraggle Rock Cartoon, The Littles, Jem and the Holograms…) and the designs that Toshiyuki Hontani did for the original PlayStation version of Grandia as I did my work on this.

Here’s something I started working on a couple days ago. Tonight I’ll do color, so I’ll post another file when that’s finished. Hope you like it; a print will be made available when the color is complete.

Here’s something I worked up last night from my sketchbook. It’s a character I’ve drawn from time to time since college. Digital ink and color with Gimp 2.4.4.

Here’s something I did on a whim while I was waiting on the ferry boat to Seattle. My favorite aspects are the woman’s bulbous and yet angular anatomy, the rendering of the cheeseburger, and the pretty simple cat at a strange angle. My least favorite aspects are the dense fern fronds (I had to whack away at the 5-pixel outer line in order to make the element visually work with the other less dense things on the page) and the trailer, which nobody recognizes as a trailer even though I swear I’ve seen that very type of trailer a million times when I live in Alabama.