Recently, I moved into a lovely house by Clapham Common. The house contains a friendly and lovable dog called Tollie, who is occasionally my responsibility to walk. Having never lived with a dog before, my confidence as a dog walker was pretty low, but after a few false starts (involving Tollie refusing to move and me being glared at by passersby as I tried to drag her without success) we’ve had some pleasant autumnal walks on the common.
In homage to these walks I am working on a new personal project about Tollie and the common in autumn. I’m only halfway through, but thought I would share a few process sketches of character designs and some of the finished spreads. It took me a while to get comfortable drawing Tollie (who knew dogs were so tough to draw??).
