Becky Hawkins
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Spring turns to summer at the children's theater
🕑 Added 2024-07-05 21:22:32 +0000 UTCThere was a memorable snail in A Year With Frog and Toad, so I saw a bunch of snail-walking from the box office.
This next incident was relayed to me by the house manager, pictured on the left. Once again I got to play with contrasting lighting situations (lobby vs theater)! I also enjoyed drawing the various ages of people who come to see the show as a family.
This was a cartoon where I just drew what happened:
It's also another second version. I knew I could do better with the perspective and the drawings of the teachers. But I thought my facial expression looked more funny and spontaneous in the first version (see below) so I colored and Photoshopped it in.
We were wallpapering the black box theater with newspapers for Newsies Jr. a couple months ago. I took some photos before that staff meeting started, which was helpful in drawing it later!
I could not have come up with this gag in a million years, it just happened to me.
I went ham on the background details, and I liked how I conveyed sunlight and shadow with watercolors. So I was really worried about messing this one up in the disco-light phase. I scanned the cartoon before adding any effects, then drew on it in Photoshop to see where the dots looked right. I added them randomly the first time, then tried again with curvy rows of dots. The second version looked way better so I tried to emulate that with white gel pen on the postcard. I added some motion lines around the largest, closest ones.
When the theater moved downtown from a hundred-year-old, many-times-renovated Christian Science church building, I was worried about the cartoons getting visually boring. There are definitely more blank hallways than there used to be, but it's posing fun new challenges, too.
And finally, a just-for-fun postcard from Refuge Coffee House, where Barry and I met up to finish SuperButch Issue 7:
Stay cool out there, everybody! Thanks, as always, for supporting me on Patreon.
