Notes: Reflections
have always been difficult for me. I've always been uncomfortable with
just repeating the same image exactly. I mean, when you look at a reflection,
even in a photograph, you can SEE a qualitative difference between it and
the real figure. You can clearly tell the difference between a picture
of a person and a picture of a mirror in which that person is reflected.
When you're dealing
with characters who are already unreal (and particularly cartoony in the
case of my drawings) , the question of how to capture the further unreality
of a reflection becomes difficult. I often make the reflections simpler
versions of the character ... using fewer lines and less variation in the
line weights. In the case of shapes I make the reflection misshapen even
if there is no real reason for it to be. The bottles and the disco ball
should really have nearly perfect reflections in these images, but I make
them wavy in order to emphasize the point that they are reflections.
In the end, I
don't know that I'm not just worrying about a pointless distinction ...
or worse, that I'm confusing the audience by making visual ripples where
they expect none. But no one has ever pointed it out to me, so I suspect
that no one really notices ... which in the end is the desired effect.
Oh, and the crosshatching
on panel #1 nearly drove me bananas!! I REALLY like how it turned out,
but I before I was even halfway done with the inking I decided that this
texture would only appear in SMALL panels from that point on!
By the way, in
panel #2 Uncle Dog is telling the punchline to a REAL joke ... not a good
one, mind you, but one I've told when the crowd (and the silliness factor)
is right.
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