#58: Tuna Love

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I don’t need to tell you what day it is. You already know. It’s a day for some cartoons. These cartoons, specifically.

This week, we have a different kind of missing persons animal, and a tunnel of love with some interesting consequences.

Drifting in,
Chris

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Caption: “Don’t worry Ma’am, if the body’s got tuna on it, she’ll find it.”

So, we have a cat, Molly, and we also watch a lot of crime shows. And sooner or later, our experiences of both were bound to merge together.

Because, no matter where she is in the house, Molly ALWAYS find the tuna. My tuna, my partner’s tuna, any tuna. She’ll smell it from every possible angle and from any possible distance.

I guess what I’m saying is: if you’re a missing person, make sure you have some tuna with you.

A little artist’s note: Some don’t cartoons need a lot of detail to work. But for this one, and thinking of all the Scandinavian crime dramas I’ve seen involving missing persons, well this cartoon needed a lot of work. Everything from the leaves to the trees to getting the shading right, which I’m totally on the fence as to if I’ve actually got it right, comes into play for this cartoon.

I’ve gone back to it a few times since the initial drawing and every single time I think, gosh maybe I could do this one better. I suspect I’ll probably always do it, until the next challenge, that is.

Caption: N/A

Would you ride this tunnel?

A tunnel of love can be transformational. It can take you to another place. Another world. Another mindset. And maybe it can also take you to another era. You know, the era of LOOVE.

Take a ride.

A little artist’s note: Gosh, this one took some work.

It started out as a ‘simple’ concept. The tunnel of love cartoon is kind of a cartoonist trope. Everyone has drawn one of some description and I really wanted to join this pantheon. But I also realised that drawing what I wanted to draw was actually much more difficult than it looked. There was the tunnel, of course, but also the people leaving the tunnel. And the contrast between the two had to be just right.

Oh, and don’t even get me started on the shading. Because every time I adjusted the shading on the tunnels, I had to completely rework the shading on the people to contrast.

I guess what I’m saying is that sometimes simple isn’t really that simple.

Thanks for reading MiddleSquiggle!

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