Early Happy Birthday Wishes!

It's a bird... It's a plane... It's designerotter!
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As I tend to not make LJ posts on Saturdays, I wanted to make sure I didn't forget to wish a very Happy Birthday to the ever-wonderful, incredibly creative designerotter! Big warm early birthday hugs!!

Bear Seasons: Summer

Back before I started posting the "seasons" cartoons, I thought about who would approach to use as the models for it. Ed (njbearcub1) was the first I thought of when it came to the "Summer" cartoon. So I emailed and asked him and was thrilled that he was okay with me doing this.

I thought of different images to use, most of them involved him sunbathing. While I liked this idea (and I wager that most of us would), I was having trouble showing the mythic influence over the season that the other season toons have had so far. The early drafts just didn't work. So I decided to depict him having some summer fun I remember from youth. Is he reaching for the sun or putting it up in the air himself?

In retrospect, I should have drawn him shirtless. I'm sure it would have made the cartoon much better! :)

Big hugs, handsome!