I love Guinea Pigs and have two of my own: Haley and Sabine, named after characters from Order of the Stick. This is not one of them. As 2010 has arrived it is time for me to throw out my old calendar. It has pictures of Guinea Pigs on it. They’re nice pictures so I thought I’d copy them for a little bit of art practice first. This little piggy is eating curly kale. Piggys love their noms.

OM NOM NOM.

Yeah, I’m still copying Guinea Pigs off my Calendar.  This one’s sooo sweet with his little dice.

Two sweet little guinea pigs sitting in a hat.

Aww, guineapigs are sooo cute!

Now I’m sure you’re all too diplomatic to say so, but inking isn’t one of my strong points. There’s only one way to tackle that, though, isn’t there?  Practise!  So this is a fully inked drawing using several different types of line.  Yeah, I went for something insubstantial just to make it easy on myself!

A page from my sketchbook.  I am practising drawing sword-fighting by copying freeze-frames from combat videos.  When we get some actual fighting in Epic Fail I want it to look right.  Don’t be suprised if you see some of these poses used in the comic.

Oh! And for those who want to pre-order Epic Fail #1 today is your last chance, after that they are closed.