#63: For the love of salad
Hello greeters,
It’s another time for another set of cartoons. Hold on tight.
This week, we see love at its most green, and see what happens when things escalate just a little too much.
Keeping an eye out,
Chris
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Caption: “Trevor, how could you?”
We have such complicated relationships with plants. And this one is especially complicated.
Is he caught green handed? Green mouthed? Salad fingered?
Whatever it is, I don’t envy this situation.
A little artist’s note: Who is Trevor? Is he in a consensual relationship with a leafy houseplant? Is that even legal? All good questions.
To me, there is something kind of joyous about drawing this one. It’s simple enough, a man in bed with a salad, but there is also the element that his partner is a walking houseplant. Visually, the key here was to show that the plant itself had similar leaves to what Trevor was chewing on. It’s silly, of course, but that’s half the fun.
Caption: “It started as a pillow fight, then came the forts, the ideologies, and the wars.”
Sometimes things escalate.
And then, before you know it, you’re part of a war you didn’t ask for, and an ideology you don’t believe in.
And then what if that war was over a pillow fight?
A little artist’s note: I’m not quite sure where this idea came from, but when I found it in my notebook, I think I instantly knew how it would look. I knew that pillows would be both weapons and armor, and I knew that couch cushions would make up the forts required and I knew where everyone would be. Then I just had to draw it.
Simple, right?
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