Step 2: (Patreon)

The first step was taking the inked drawing and scanning it. For the comic I usually erase the pencil lines before scanning, so it's quicker to clean up the base linework. When I do the book sketches, I leave the pencil, which essentially becomes part of the artwork.

Step 2 is to take the scan and convert it to solid black-and-white, no greyscale. And at this stage, if the drawing needs it, I'll do gross corrections- here, you'll note, I raised the bottom edge of her shirt, and shortened her shorts, lengthened her fingers, and reshaped the chest a little.

At this point, once I'm happy with the overall proportions, I'll start cleaning up the linework- sharpening the points of the fur, I'll tweak that left ankle a bit, clean up the seam in the shorts, etc.

And, in response to the responses posted below:

I see there's pretty much an equal interest in both the storylines and gag-a-day, so as one poster suggested, I think we'll be "staying the course". :)

The current plan is to keep doing the current mostly-gags-but-with-very-short-storylines thing as we've been seeing for the past several weeks, and towards the end of the summer we'll ease back into the full-fledged storylines.

For those of you worried the main comic would start having NSFW content, don't worry, I have no intention of doing so. The one strip with the foxes in the oil room was mostly just a case of "let's see what happens if I do this". :)

As for many of your suggestions:

Establishing shots that show more of the offices, workshops and labs. I've been wanting to do that, and work them up as backgrounds I can drop into the artwork, as I did with the counter background at the coffee shop. (Which I need to make a perspective view of, so the art isn't always quite so boring. :) )

A pin-up of Roger, and/or I "owe" the female readers something? Entirely true- earlier this year I was meaning to do up a "beefcake" of Anthony, in large part just to try and figure out how a buff guy's muscles are supposed to look. That and finally settle how his face and head stripes are supposed to go- I'm sure you ladies and gents noticed that they wandered about a bit. :) I'll have to see if I can work something up.

Miki and Pirta meeting? Okay, it's either going to be a dog vs. cat meeting, or they're going to start swapping stories about Doc and become best friends. :) We'll see it before too long.

Jessie, Cassie or Pirta possibly relaxing in a nice hot bath? I could be mean and give you a quick sketch where nothing's visible below her nostrils because of the bubbles, but if I get some free time before too long, I think we can work something up.

Jinx having a tinkering accident? Already in the works, and will be part of an upcoming storyline. (evil grin)

Finish the Sandy-on-satin pic? That one was finished back when I first posted it, I just chose at the time to post the censored version. I eventually wanted to work up a version with better shading, but time, as always, is against me. I'll see if I can dig up the original- I think I had a 'full monty' version of the panel with Pirta's coveralls popping open too, that I'm not sure I posted.

Doc.