I had this idea a few weeks ago for an absurd advertisement. I tried to mimic those ‘As Seen As TV’ type infomercials with the desaturated colors for the ‘before’ and bright vibrant colors ‘after’. I also tried a technique of outlining by using a darker version of the in-fill color rather than just black, which borrowed from “The Good Boy Gang.” (I see now they used the same outline color for each character, which would have saved a lot of time.

This comic came out of another I was working on; I had the panel with the fetus dreaming of fertilization, and thought it would make a better comic about nostalgia than what I was originally doing. I used a similar technique as Let’s Go Fly A Kite for the fetus (with the airbrush tool rather than the alcohol marker). Although it’s a very time consuming process, I thought the technique would give a womblike feeling.

I don’t know what made me think of this, but had the idea yesterday. Here is the original concept sketch: Time lapse: The geese were based off a photo taken by Steve McCormick; the penguin based off a photo by Wolfgang Kaehler.