Catcher in the Rye

Bacterial Pets!

So for my Bio IB class I had to design my own lab using four petri dishes. I won’t go into details but I tested four different milk products: milk, yogurt, sour cream, and panela. I left them in the classroom over the weekend. They’re my new pets: bacteria colonies!

I think I’m actually looking forward to Monday so I can check on my pets. I should come up with a name for them.  Hmmm…

Yogurt colony: Yogi

Milk colony: Cowapunga

Sour cream colony:  Cookies n’ cream

Panela colony: Pamela Anderson

Rachel’s Blue:From Pencil to the Screen

Below how a typical comic looks before it’s inked and colored. I usually start by drawing [using a ruler] the outline of the frames. Then I pencil in the characters. Rachel and Violet [the llamas] are pretty simple. Joe the tiger is a little more complex. After the characters are completely penciled in, I write in the dialogue and then I draw the bubble around it. This way, the words don’t seemed crammed into a tiny bubble. after all that is done, I ink the outline, let the ink dry, erase the pencil marks and then color.

Once the comic is done. I scan it, crop it, whiteout any impurities [like little spots and stuff like that] . Finally I upload it and publish it.

Won’t take your time any longer, here is the sketch draft of the It’s the Thought that Counts episode.