Tag: sea monster

Glen gives the baby Kracken his first ship…

I apologize for the lack of a Glen comic last week. I had a migraine all week and was so out of it that Friday came and went without me noticing. This week I have decided to make up for this by drawing something so intensely adorable it’ll have the power to melt your heart. And here it is! Inspired by a very late night conversation about how sea monsters should be “boopable.”

The Making of Glen

This week’s Glen was a tough concept for me to gather and make into a readable image. How does one draw a Kracken in a way that makes it look like a baby? And how does one get a ship in bottle??

The answer to the first was to put the Kracken in a crib and endear it to audiences with HUGE baby eyes. As for the ship… that was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. I drew a ship and then drew a bottle around it one layer below it. Voila! Nothing else fancy done here except use layers to make the legs all make sense.

A final note here would be that right now as my mind juggles a billion other things I have found having a muse is essential. This time it was inspired by someone telling me about a story they were writing where they were criticized for making legendary sea monsters adorable. Did I hear a challenge??

Glen Releases the Kracken

This week’s comic was an absolute joy to draw. This was the first time since I started this website that Glen decided to take me for a ride. This was not at all what I was trying to draw when I started but I must say I am super happy with the results! I feel like I finally reclaimed Glen’s disturbingly cute spirit.

And this is the first comic I have drawn that’s more than one panel! I think I will do that more often now. I am having so much fun working with layers and adding details that now my mind is on fire with the idea of perhaps doing an animation someday.

This comic was supposed to be another joke on a popular song but with the addition of a Kraken that went out the window and I am at a loss as to any songs that do in fact describe such a wonderful beast. So if you happen to know some kick ass death metal song about a giant killer squid, or perhaps some sort of acapella punk ballad about sunken ships, please leave them in the comments! All genres welcome!

Oh and since I was working with layers I was able to quickly jot up this bonus panel which looks like it’d make an awesome meme…