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Let's Go Fly a Kite

4 panel comic. Panel 1: A man and his two kids are marching through the street, exhuberantly singing “Let’s go fly a kite!”. The little boy is carrying a kite. A fat man waves from the right side of the scene. Panel 2: Fat man, Benjamin Franklin, says “I have a very important experiment to conduct. Mind if I join you?”. He is holding a kite and a large key. Panel 3: The suited man, Mr. Banks from Mary Poppins, says “Stay away from my children, you syphilitic old coot!” Panel 4: Franklin slumps down, dejected. Mr. Banks continues marching off into the distance, continuing to sing “Up To The Highest Height!”. In the distance, Mary Poppins floats away with her bag and umbrella

Hopefully you’ve seen Mary Poppins or this won’t make all that much sense to you. But fear not, YouTube has every clip known to man:

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I experimented with a new approach this time, using digital watercolor brushes for the background and alcohol marker brushes for the foreground. I wanted a bit of a looser style, allowing colors to escape the frame at some points, and even letting the characters leave the frame. I do like how it turned out, but this way of coloring took easily four times as long as my standard approach of flat color.

Time lapse of the creation:

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