I was in a meeting one day, doing what I normally do - doodling in my notepad - when I sketched a simple little geometric bird. And I kind of liked the simplicity. I wasn’t thinking anything about a comic strip, I was just escaping the meeting by moving a pen around on the pad. When I started to play with the shapes and thinking about repeatability, character and expressions, the drawing went down hill fast. I am normally a realistic renderer - even when I try to toon something up, there’s a smell of realism I can’t seem to get away from. So how could I take such a SIMPLE form and make it “breathe?” Yep - you got it - draw it again and again and work it out! I have finally starting to get some life into the little angular bird (a boid). I’ll share some of those sketches real soon.

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