After I'd purchased the leftoversoup.com domain name, but before the comic itself was ready, I put up a page that would rotate these three images at random.
These are the original concept sketches for the core three characters of the series. These characters just sort of came out of my pencil fully formed, even before I knew what I wanted to use them for. There have been some visual changes since - Jamie became lefthanded, and I allowed Max's eyebrows to pop over her hairline - but they're still essentially the same characters that popped out originally.
This is the first donation incentive image I did, a picture of Ellen's thoroughly ridiculous D&D character, Milendra Frostwind, first referenced here. For those of you who are familiar with 3.5, she's an Eberronnian half-elf (Eberron Campaign Setting, page 15) with the half-dragon (Monster Manual I, page 214, using the radiant dragon, from the Draconomicon, page 185), half-celestial (Monster Manual I, page 213), and half-nymph (Dragon Magazine #313, page 95) templates applied, and she's a crossclassed ninja (Complete Adventurer, page 5) psion (Expanded Psionics Handbook, page 19) paladin of freedom (Unearthed Arcana, page 53).
Back when I had about ninety Twitter followers, I promised that I'd do a free art request for my 100th follower (this probably would have had a greater effect if I'd posted it somewhere other than Twitter itself). My 100th Twitter follower turned out to be a spambot, and @Simmifugl had called dibs, so I gave it to him. He requested a shot of the core three characters as characters from my wife's comic.
I held a contest in my forum, to see who could derive the floorplan of Ellen and Jamie's apartment from only the information presented in the comic. Faithful forumite "doctor100" got the closest, and he requested a picture of Ellen and Max dressed as pirates.
This was the first half of the second donation incentive - Jamie explaining how to make custom board game pieces on the cheap. This is the method I've developed over the years...
This was the first half of the third donation incentive: Ellen and Wallace, dressed as an angel and devil, sitting on Jamie's shoulders, as mentioned in this strip.
This was the first half of the fourth donation incentive: A group shot of the D&D party, looking particularly epic.
These were sketches I did around Halloween: Max as ninja turtle, Jamie as a nondescript viking, and Ellen as a Minecraft creeper.
This is a shot of the main cast, done in Diesel Sweeties style.
Sojourney became my 200th follower in December so I did a shot of the core cast in a Christmas picture for her. She's a kickass colour-type-person, so I gave her the hi-rez lineart - her version of the picture is here.
It's a little known fact that, on the Dinosaur Comics website, you can alter the URL with the querystring "butiwouldratherbereading" to change the template of the comic. This is a Leftover Soup-themed butiwouldratherbereading template!
This is a pic of my core three characters dancing, in celebration of Leftover Soup's first year anniversary! It was the first half of the fifth donation incentive.
This is a quick sketch of Maxine Hellenberger, friend to all animals!
A sketch of the Core Three hanging out at the beach.
This was the sixth donation incentive - Max, telling her favourite joke.
A nice little picture of Max and Gina.
Paula Gonzalez (a.k.a. PGA99) became my 300th Twitter follower, and she requested a picture of "sporty-sexy Max".
This is the first half of the seventh donation incentive - a nice recipe for chicken soup.
This is the eighth donation incentive - a brief, but canonical interlude with Jamie and Ellen.
This is the ninth donation incentive - Ellen, introducing her tiefling warlock to the gaming group, immediately after Max introduced her "halfling fighter".
This is the tenth donation incentive, a noncanon shot of the main cast as they would have appeared nine years ago, when Jamie was thirteen and Ellen and Max were both fifteen.
This is a shot of Max with all her lovers.
This is the eleventh donation incentive, a piece I have chosen to call "Use Knitting For Evil".
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