Ned & Larry Comics

You can see a messy pencil sketch here (sort of), underneath the inking.

…Ned & Larry ideas that haven’t made it into the comics (yet).

Every now and then, I go digging through my piles of sketchbooks and scraps of paper. Last night, I found an old pencil sketch of Larry, and decided to ink and color him. The poor guy was tucked away in the back, under a pile of notes, and nonsensical ramblings. No wonder he’s bitter…

You can see how much Larry has evolved over the past couple of years. Way back when, his snout (I’ve always thought of his nose as snout-like) had more of a rounded quality.

Sketchbooks & Assorted Scraps of Paper

I always like to have an assortment of sketchbooks (or stray napkins) close by, to write down (or sketch out) the crazy ideas that enter my head. More often than not I use them to sketch Ned & Larry in funny poses and predicaments. At times, those sketches have served as great inspiration for some of my favorite Ned & Larry comics.

Two of my favorites:  Coffee Time, and Happy Landings.

Of course for every good idea, there are dozens of bad ones…really dreadful ones, terrible even. The kind of stuff manure is made of. Those ideas get neatly tucked away into a sketchbook, locked away forever…or until I get desperate.

What’s my point?

Never throw out an idea (good or bad); you just never know what it could evolve into.

Thanks for reading Ned & Larry. It’s coffee time, cheers!