[layout and sketches from a recent cartoon] I just put up a cartoon called At The Pet Store that involved a parrot with quite the vocabulary, unfortunately, it's rather rude. Anyway, this is the rough outline that I made for it, to block out the 4 frames. I have scribbles of the dialogue, and a few test studies of the parrot as it appears in the four frames.

The last drawing had too much of an arch to the neck. Also, there's a small sketch of the bird to the left of the third frame, which is what I wound up using, rather than the bigger one (which has more of his eye).

A larger version of this scan can be found here. images/Drawings/Sketches/parrot-test-small.png