One Week Cartooning Workout Day 1

 Hello! 

So I decided to try my hand at this One Week Cartooning Workout Challenge put together by the Center for Cartoon Studies.

My friend Ellie sent it to me, and it was a lot of fun. The challenge is to make a comic everyday for a week or so, with different challenges along the way. I don't know if I'll be able to finish, as I'm about to have carpal tunnel surgery (1 of 2) so I won't be able to use my drawing arm for a while.

Day 1: Create a four panel comic. There's multiple avenues to go about this, so I went with a fairly mundane instance from my own life. It's cute and funny. I decided to forgo color to keep it quick and easy.

Okay, I don't think that bonus panel is cheating, but maybe it is. Lol

Update 6

 So I decided to go back to my fundamentals and practice shape language and the like. Eventually, I'd like to make this graphic novel I've had in my head, but I've got to practice first.

So this comic came to me as I was playing Super Mario Wonder, which is a great game. I don't know if you can see the Nintendo-influence on the characters, but I was trying something new with the entire comic. It's silly and dumb, but I was trying to experiment with panel shapes, character expressions, and screen tone. It's a lot tougher than it looks.

Anyhow, the original comic was just going to be 4 panels, but I wanted to try to push it to develop a little more story.