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Dated 05/10/2013

If only Scooby-Doo was bigger. He'd never fear any of those phony ghouls ever again.

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Yeah. That's right. I drew Scooby.

I've always liked Scooby. I can't deny that when I used to watch Scooby-Doo as a kid, my mind might have wandered to thoughts of his big paws on more than one occasion. But I had never really ever given serious thought to drawing him until a recent conversation about 'guilty pleasure characters' on our forums over at Eccentricities ( www.lifeunderfoot.org/forum/in… ) in which Scooby-Doo's name came up. Admitting therein that I was quite keen on the character, I suddenly found myself curious about whether I could draw Scooby - and receiving strong encouragement from certain folks to try it.

Of course, with a mind like mine, it doesn't take long for me to come up with a bunch of mischievous ideas for any character. And once I had with Scoob, I knew I needed to give it a try, especially because it seems the fandom is suffering from a severe deficit of giant heavy thumping Scooby feets.

As ever with a character I've never drawn before, I started by spending several days doing lots of training sketches (some of which I will probably end up adding to a future Character Training Compilation in my FurAffinity Scraps: www.furaffinity.net/scraps/rip… ) in order to familiarise myself with the character and the Hanna-Barbera style. Then I started working on the actual picture.

I have to say, I had great fun doing this piece. By my usual standards, it was a refreshingly quick and smooth process - I'd already finished the linework and coloured the scan within 24 hours of starting the exploratory sketches, then got all the shading done within a further 24 hours. Some of the proportions are not quite right (especially those back legs), the background is a classic lazy gradient copout, and the style isn't 100% faithful to the original. But I genuinely like it. It's one of those relatively few pieces of mine that actually makes me smile when I look at it. Not least for the amusingly cute-looking ghost about to be stomped.

And before you ask, yes, I will be drawing more of Scooby in future. No question. I enjoyed doing this and already have several other ideas I know I'd like to try at some point.

RRRex

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Dated 05/10/2013

If only Scooby-Doo was bigger. He'd never fear any of those phony ghouls ever again.

-------------------

Yeah. That's right. I drew Scooby.

I've always liked Scooby. I can't deny that when I used to watch Scooby-Doo as a kid, my mind might have wandered to thoughts of his big paws on more than one occasion. But I had never really ever given serious thought to drawing him until a recent conversation about 'guilty pleasure characters' on our forums over at Eccentricities ( www.lifeunderfoot.org/forum/in… ) in which Scooby-Doo's name came up. Admitting therein that I was quite keen on the character, I suddenly found myself curious about whether I could draw Scooby - and receiving strong encouragement from certain folks to try it.

Of course, with a mind like mine, it doesn't take long for me to come up with a bunch of mischievous ideas for any character. And once I had with Scoob, I knew I needed to give it a try, especially because it seems the fandom is suffering from a severe deficit of giant heavy thumping Scooby feets.

As ever with a character I've never drawn before, I started by spending several days doing lots of training sketches (some of which I will probably end up adding to a future Character Training Compilation in my FurAffinity Scraps: www.furaffinity.net/scraps/rip… ) in order to familiarise myself with the character and the Hanna-Barbera style. Then I started working on the actual picture.

I have to say, I had great fun doing this piece. By my usual standards, it was a refreshingly quick and smooth process - I'd already finished the linework and coloured the scan within 24 hours of starting the exploratory sketches, then got all the shading done within a further 24 hours. Some of the proportions are not quite right (especially those back legs), the background is a classic lazy gradient copout, and the style isn't 100% faithful to the original. But I genuinely like it. It's one of those relatively few pieces of mine that actually makes me smile when I look at it. Not least for the amusingly cute-looking ghost about to be stomped.

And before you ask, yes, I will be drawing more of Scooby in future. No question. I enjoyed doing this and already have several other ideas I know I'd like to try at some point.

RRRex