The hospital here has an annual health fair called Kids' Day, something attended by about 800+ kids and their families. There are interesting exhibits, lots of information from health vendors, and the kids can get their hearing and vision checked, as well as puppy shots. Given the rural setting, odds are pretty good that this is about the only exposure some of them get to medical treatment all year.
On the upside, there's the collateral material promoting the event. This year's poster was much more solidly colorful than last year's was:
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As mentioned before, I've been busy — as in the case of this post. For the December newsletter at work I thought it would be a "fun" idea to make a comic insert featuring Dot and Lionel.
The sketching wasn't the rough part; figuring out how to break up the actions was tougher. And the blueline and inking went OK too. Illustrator's gap detection, though, was suboptimal in places; I had to add a lot of paths to get the fills to work, particularly on pages 3 and 4.
Still, I think the effect overall is pretty good. The JPEGs of the comic follow the fold, with a link to the PDF at the bottom. The PDF is imposed to print on an 11 x 17 tabloid sheet.
(Oh, in the bottom left image on page 2, the kids are shouting "Banzai!" I was going for an over-the-top manga-style look there.)
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Another Dot and Lionel toon.
It's pretty clear Lionel's me. Dot, though … she's not anywhere near as innocent as you might think. I get the feeling she goes along voluntarily with her brother on his schemes, rather than being coerced; and she might even suggest refinements from time to time to improve on Lionel's nefarious plans.
Anyway, something I tossed out last week below the fold.
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Our hospital is the largest private employer in the county with a staff of around 1300. That's a lot of people — and a lot of families.
Each year we have a supervised gathering of staff kids so the adults can spend some time doing Christmas gift shopping. There are games, treats and so on, and parents get the chance to scoop up goodies without worry of being spied on or pestered to death.
For the flyer promoting the gathering this year I decided clipart just wasn't going to do it, and fell back on pencil, ink and Illustrator. The results follow the fold. (This is just the graphical portion of the flyer; the info on where, when and so on I left off.)
I named the kids Dot and Lionel.
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