Libertoons [3]

THIS 'offshoot' series of running gags involving the Statue of Liberty and great ape Koong King should prove to run for a long time: it's easy and quick to come up with this material, and I deliberately keep it sketchy to save spontanaeity.

Although I remember seeing a gag in MAD Magazine about King Kong falling in love with Lady Liberty, I have never really seen this idea fully exploited anywhere ---a bit of a mystery that one---there is loads of scope for cartoon ideas in there.

I am more than happy to mine this field, though.


More of these already completed, more soon.


PLATE ONE:

The finished cartoon, kept in a fairly sketchy state


PLATE TWO:



The rough sketch, before proportions of the characters were altered for better results---this technique is great for getting decent-scaled  heads and faces especially---I use this a lot these days. Very easy to apply after you get used to it.

Before digital tinkering, I used to lose lots of effective cartoon heads that were simply drawn too large [a common fault for cartoonists, that one---------today, with this  scope for mucking about with scale, I can still keep the 'good heads', I just have to shrink them down---it just takes mere seconds].







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