Like many of the new illustrations created specifically for this website, this drawing was sketched out with a good ole ballpoint pen.  This drawing in particular was done on scrapped greeting card paper.  (The handwritten note about not being "the worst dad in the world" was a rejected greeting card caption.)

The next step is usually firing up the computer and scanning the image into Photoshop where I proceed to clean up the line art before adding color.

In this case I used my new ZedHead Comix TrueType font in the empty word balloons (also added in Photoshop; I'm not crazy about Illustrator and I'm not familiar with InDesign yet).  Like I said in a recent Hairblog post, the font isn't perfect, but it'll do for now.  I don't think it looks too bad in situ. 

Anyway, for this Sketchbat entry I decided to show what the initial sketch looked like after a bit of tinkering in Photoshop.  And to think--I used to abhor computers, luddite that I was.