Lately, I haven’t had many opportunities to draw things that weren’t related to my ongoing comic in any way but my girlfriend needed an invitation to a house-warming party she’s throwing so I put this together last night for her. It was a fun departure from drawing the same characters and scenes and overall, I like it.

As with some other work I’ve been doing lately, I did this completely digitally. There are advantages to digital work, such as “fix that mouth” or “her hand is in the wrong position”. It’s a very fluid method of working and while I’m not ready to hang up the bristol and quills quite yet, the more I acclimate myself to a digital environment, the more it appeals to me. This took me a little over an hour to do and while that’s markedly slower than working with a pen and paper, I’m still getting used to the tablet and with practice, I think digital drawing would be slightly faster than working with traditional materials. It’s one of the reasons why the strip I’m working on is completely digital. If it goes well, Variables may move to an entirely digital platform as well. We’ll see.