Initially I started off with Stewie Griffin. The show family guy is one of my favorites, and I enjoy the look of the characters. Because this picture of Stewie is in black and white, I had a lot of potential for change and that is part of the reason that I chose it. I thought the best way that I could make changes to this picture was to draw it free hand on a separate piece of blank paper and add on the details as I went. He is a pretty easy character to draw as a cartoon because of his basic shapes.
After I was finished drawing him onto paper, I thought about some of the details I could add. I initially thought of adding color, which I did as my first change. For this I used colored pencils as well as a couple of markers. He was beginning to take on more and more life. When I scanned the image, it unfortunately didn’t look quite as good as it did on the paper.

The next thing that I opted to do was add a second character to the scene. For the second character, I chose to add another familiar character from family guy, Brian Griffin. Brian is an alcoholic, so I felt that it was right to draw him holding his favorite drink, the martini. After I checked the suggestions on my blog I decided to also add a weapon. That is the reason that I added the grenade in his pocket. Stewie is a very maniacal baby, so it was easy to understand why he should have a weapon. After the grenade was added, I colored in both the grenade and Brian. For Brian I used markers but for the grenade I used colored pencils.

After my second change to my image occurred, I didn’t receive very much feed back as far as changes were concerned. I did find the image to be slightly bland though because of the lack of background. For this reason, I decided to add one. For this alteration I used the program paint. Initially I placed the background down first as a base layer. I then took my image and pasted it over the background. Because there was so much white space, the background and the image overlapped. I think it adds a lot of color to the image as well as giving a kind of retro feel.

There is a lot that I could still add to this image. Some of the things that I was considering were: adding more characters, putting background items behind them, and putting some words in. I’m pretty satisfied with the piece all together as it is though. It’s pretty unique, and it has a lot of character. I will probably continue to draw family guy characters because I enjoy it, and I have had some positive experiences doing so.