"The Wag-o-matic"

 

This one I actually totally zoned out on, headphones + tunnel vision for about a half-hour or so before coming up for air. Pushing back from the drawing table and appraising what just came out the other end of the pen is always such a sublime reward.

The difference between the initial concept sketch (aka doodle) and what was penciled out was primarily a compositional rearrangement so as to accommodate more miscellaneous mad-scientist lab props for the background. That was an almost stream-of-(un)consciousness process of a waking daydream