I held a poll about what kind of facial hair to give Jacobi’s grandpa but I ignored the results and gave him a moustache lol

(Even though they look quite different, Jacobi and his grandpa have the same eyes!)

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I love Jacobi’s silly beekeeper family.... I wish I could’ve shown more of them!

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2020-03-20

This is the first time Joanna and Walt get food icons! Previously, it was difficult because Lucy, Joanna, and Walt are all apples—so I kind of bent the rules a bit with the hot sauce and apple-with-glasses

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2020-03-20

Despite the fact that it’s a one-off food and insignificant to the plot, this panini is one of my favorite foods I’ve drawn (it’s up there with the confit byaldi and Heath’s rose apple tarts) (but nothing overtakes the cheese plate)

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Because they are similar people, with intentionally similar arcs! They lose their family, are saved by Lynn, then lose Lynn—and are desperate to hold onto a place that represent their family, which brings out the worst aspects of their determination

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2020-03-20

Ik readers interpreted the black word bubbles as “Lucy’s dark side” (which is valid), but they’re meant to indicate both Lucy and Jacobi defaulting to their unhealthy, traumatized mindset of “No one will help me, I have to do this on my own”

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2020-03-20

I always knew someone was going to steal Lucy’s necklace at some point, so I was looking forward to this scene!

But I was also very nervous, because I wasn’t sure if I could convey “ruthless, manipulative, and desperate, but not evil” very well

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2020-03-20

I feel like people thought Jacobi was stalking Lucy, but they really are neighbors! I used the same SketchUp model for both their apartments!!

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2020-03-20

This is one of my favorite Lucy looks! I tried to replicate it a few times later, but it never came out quite right

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2020-03-20

I wanted Lucy to go back on some of her character development in this arc

She went from having relationships as transactions (“I broke your door and need help in my search, so I’ll work for you”) to real friendships—and now back to transactional relationships

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2020-03-20

Who says this line earnestly IRL?? Wouldn’t you be at least a little embarrassed!!!

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2020-03-20

I feel like I stick Graham with the “nobody in real life talks like this” lines, but someone had to say it

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2020-03-20

I was frustrated because “Lucy’s search hurts the chefs” comes up every arc, and I couldn’t figure out a way to put a newer spin on it! It just repeats!!!

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2020-03-20

In the original thumbnails Jacobi fed this to Lucy to show how he’s in control of the conversation, but I was like “No they’re in a fancy restaurant, that’s rude and too weird”

So I just had Jacobi assemble it and hand it to her lol

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2020-03-20

This was around the time I finally started to get ahold of Jacobi’s motivations—and I finally knew how I wanted to portray Jacobi as a reflection of Lucy

(I mean, there was still a lot of other things I hadn’t figured out plotwise, but at least I got one thing!)

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2020-03-20

I MESSED UP THE TIMELINE HERE, I imply that Jacobi is currently both 28 and 30 within the same episode..... Jacobi is ageless

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2020-03-20

I purposefully gave Lynn a similar pantsuit + bag to when Lucy met Graham! I wanted to draw a strong association between Lucy and Lynn

(I don’t expect readers to notice it, but more like “I can see where Lucy gets her sense of dress from!”)

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2020-03-20

This dinner scene wasn’t originally set at Dimanche (it was going to be another Dimanche chef’s restaurant), but I wanted it to feel super charged for both of them, so I decided to set it there!

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2020-03-20

I had coffee with my friend Janelle while she was in HI, and she doodled stuff on my iPad while we talked—and a lot of them ended up on Clem’s clothing lol, the weird little boy pattern is one of her doodles

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2020-03-20

I wanted to emphasize the parallels between Jacobi and Lucy—both have extraordinary skills (eidetic memory, super olfaction/supertaster) that people think they are squandering

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