I got bored with tonight’s new Saturday Night Live, so I hopped on Hulu and started watching an episode from 1981. Here’s a mostly-failed attempt at rendering a young Eddie Murphy.

Am I the only one who noticed that the Pope was wearing a Cab Calloway style zoot suit during his final audience?

Fun fact: During the first year of my life, there were 3 different Popes!

Back to digital (using Frenden’s “Big Tex” brush for Manga studio). I’d be lying if I said the scribbly lack of detail outside Norma Shearer’s face was an aesthetic choice–it was just my typical laziness–but I kinda like it anyway.

Back to real ink today, using a disposable fountain pen and brush pen. Playing around with how to apply Gibsonesque qualities to my usual cartoony style.

One potential labor-saving grace for this comic: fashion back then was really really boring and simple (especially among people like the characters in this story).