Dammit, I can't wait till I get back home and have a decent scanner. I hate that I have to take all these pictures with my laptop's webcam...
Anyway, today I finally round off the main toon protagonists of [Sketchpad]. JD Bear and Rocky, like Mog, are characters who weren't based on a drawing. These two are actually based on two stuffed animals my stepmom has. Long story short, she makes them "talk", which I believe is tied to some unresolved childhood issues. It was cute when I was 10-11 but I kind of just ignore her when she makes them talk at me. Moving on, when I was a naive little kid, sometime after I was done with The Unfamous 5, stepmom suggested I do a comic about JD Bear and the various other stuffed animals she had. In retrospect, it probably wasn't a good idea to encourage her but I did it, spanning roughly 100 poorly conceived 6-panel comic strips. There were times I just made up the stupidest thing I could think of because I knew no one but her was gonna read it. I stopped doing the comics because...well, let's just say that my feelings toward my stepmom aren't exactly very positive anymore. However, I decided to keep the characters and some of them got merged into [Sketchpad].
In the context of [SP], JD Bear is a very self-centered, arrogant coward who will try to run away at the first sign of a fight. He's quick to boss other around and complains when things don't go his way. He's basically like any 6-year old (which is roughly how I write his personality). The only reason JD Bear is kept around because Domino (I'll explain him another day) has a sentimental attachment to him. In the show, the JD Bear character was a childhood toy of Domino's. Moving onto Rocky, first off, he's a lobster. I've had a lot of people think he's a bug, which is understandable, I guess. I like to think of Rocky and JD Bear's moral compass. He's quick to jump in when JD Bear is being a jerk or about to do something stupid. For being so small, he's actually a very wise character. When backed into the corner, however, JD Bear can use Rocky as a whip to fend off enemies.
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