Graham Chaffee

This marks the end of part 2, with our hero feeling confused and unsettled but ever hopeful.  Part 3 is fulla action.

Here are the next few pages; these are 39-45 - mostly all about Sasha.  His story, the Achilles myth, wound up driving what would have been a short story about an unhappy dog into graphic novel territory.  If ya wanna see the evolution of the 42-43 spread, I posted that back on November 23rd…

Sorry for the delay in posting - here is the next li’l scene (pages 35 - 38) - some hot dog-on-dog action!

I’ve included the finished art for the fight scene because it wound up so differently from how I had laid it out…

Part two: our hero meets some new friends and begins a life of crime.  These are pages 30-34.  I was in a quandary about the manner in which the Scottish Terrier should speak - wishing a noticeable accent but not wanting to make it too comically stagey. In the finished version, I trimmed his ‘Och-Ayes’ and ‘Weel, laddies’ to what I felt was an acceptable level. My apologies to all Scots, everywhere…

These pages (26-29) are the final scene of part 1.  We’ve met our doggy hero, established his unhappy, rootless existence, and set up the dynamic for his relationship with a significant other… I put the final art for p29 up there for comparison’s sake.

Next, he meets some other dogs and becomes acquainted with an entirely different point of view…

This next scene (pages 19 - 25) is one of my favorites because I fell in love with this retarded bulldog character - someday I will give him his own little story.  Pages 23 and 24 were added after the fact - you can see the difference in the drawing…

Here’s the next little scene - featuring recurring characters from other stories (you can see them in my post from Oct 24th). These were originally pages 6-8 and now they are 16-18.  If you are exceptionally observant, you will be able to spot the point where my blue pen ran out of ink… 

Here’s the next scene in layouts: pages 12-15.  I included a spread of pages 12 and 13 as finished art for comparison’s sake…

Here is the next installment of Good-Dog-as-layouts: pages 6 - 11.  This part and the next few pages after it were added much later in the process and the sketches have a much more hurried feel… 

Just wanna take a moment to brag on my gal, Susan, who sold all three of her paintings at this massive group show in Hollywood last night! Here’s a link to the gallery: http://www.laluzdejesus.com/

I’m hoping to have Good Dog published this year - hopefully pretty soon - so I thought I’d post the layouts for people to check out.  These were done pretty small - each page is about the size of a postcard - and I used a variety of fountain pens and whatnot to draw them.  I’ll try and post a few pages every week - hope ya like them :)

More stuff from idle time on the phone…

Stuff I drew while on the phone, I think…