Ah, cars. Every budding artist’s favorite thing to draw, inside and out! …I’m sure that sentiment is true for some, but it wasn’t for me! Cars still aren’t my favorite thing to draw. (Not even my second favorite.) But as long as I’m using a good reference, I can do a decent enough job.

By this page I realized that I wasn’t completely satisfied with the standard “thought balloon tail” that comes with CLIP Studio Paint. CSP is great for a lot of things related to making comics, but that tool in particular never struck me as all that impressive. I experimented with a few different thought balloon styles and eventually settled on the third option above, which I still use to this day. One feature I do love about CSP is the ability to combine shapes so that they “merge” together and share a single outline, and I think it looks much better to have the first bubble of the tail semi-attached to the balloon. Also, with only a few bubbles in the tail, it’s much easier to adjust the curve of the tail as needed.

I used a black and white version of the fourth panel of this page as the artwork for an* Aww, Feathers!* flyer to hand out at events, though I used dialog from the final panel. I was satisfied enough with the final lineart that I used it for years, and I still have a bunch of them. I may update the design once my current stock runs out, but it’s served me well for a good while!