Commentary: Purple is not a Grumble. He is something else. He isn’t an animal. But he’s not a Grumble. He doesn’t talk, and he doesn’t have stick limbs, only two, wider, elephant-like legs. Also, his name doesn’t fit with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: I like using dotted lines to show the motion of flying insects. I don’t think I’ve used it for anything else. It just doesn’t feel appropriate for anything else. Presumably this fly has a more detailed body if you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Red mostly eats only fruit. Frugivore is the scientific term. He certainly doesn’t eat meat, though some of the other characters do. This means he is just fishing for sport. This fish represent a lot of firsts. It’s the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Not much to do for fun in an empty white void, so Red just enjoys the yellow glow of the hole. Green’s food here is served like popcorn, but I imagine that it is probably a fruit, maybe some[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: As a character Magenta is already a resident of Grumbletown before the comic starts, so the others know her, but she exists slightly outside Red, Blue, and Green’s clique. She runs the town’s only store, which is grey right[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: You can tell Magenta is a woman in two ways: She has visible eyelashes, which ended up not being very common, and she has a head that isn’t flat. I don’t know why I chose that particular feature to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Here we have the first plant to appear. Though more normal looking trees come in later, this bulbous spotted fruit tree still set some ideas about the way colors work in this world. Even though I hadn’t settled on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: Little red hearts symbolize love. Heart symbols are red because real hearts are red. I don’t know what color the inside of a Grumble is, though, and I don’t intend to ever find out. Never going to be any[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: See, when they’re talking you’re supposed to just make up sounds that match the length of the word balloons. I’ve done a few that have no dialogue even though people are shown talking, but that’s just because I’m lazy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Commentary: They are drinking water. Water’s color was one of the first things I decided on. Water, of course, is clear, but because they live in an empty landscape at this point, I decided to make water light blue, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…