Dogs And Their Adorable Likeness Captured Weekly By Dog Loving Illustrator

Imagine having this as your job

Damjan

• Published in Animals
• August 11, 2020

For many of us, hardly a day goes by where we don't get a chance to see at least one dog. Kasey Williams is, in her own words, “a wannabe punk who can make a mean curry.”

She is also an illustrator and professional animation colorist currently working on Animaniacs at Warner Bros, but she also creates her own art and comics. One of them is perfect for dog lovers, called The Good Boy Report.

The principle is simple: every Friday, Kasey posts drawings of the dogs she had spotted that week. The dog drawings aren’t that complicated either – they are not even colored.

Its because the artist did not want to draw attention from the dogs. The dogs take a central role, and it is all about their character.

The cute and funny captions add to the overall feeling of warmth and genuine love for our four-legged friends, and all these features combined make a weekly treat that no person should miss. Dog owner or not, it doesn’t matter… 

1. Dogs Spotted This Week

2. Different Dogs Always

3. Dog Appreciation As Heck

4. Relatable Dog Logic

5. The fourth dog is the best this week

6. Doggy Days

7. Who doesn't love a dog with a large head?

8. Some dogs are like that.

9. Senior Dog Appreciation

10. All dogs are perfect

11. Patient Doggy

12. Dog Dad

13. It isn't a dog comic series with the occasional dog poop, right?

14. More Dogs Spotted This Week

15. Weiner Dog!

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Luckily, the artist doesn't have to walk far from her house to meet dogs - there are many in her area. "I'm lucky to live in a corner of Los Angeles that is a mixture of city and suburban, so it's open and laid-back enough that people are casually walking around with their dogs, but densely-populated enough that it's rarely the same neighborhood dogs over and over," she said.

17. "It is always fun to go out of town and get to see fresh new dogs, though! If I go somewhere interesting, like Hawaii or New York, I usually indicate the Special Location on the specific pages."

18. "I try to go to Tokyo each year, and I swear that city has some of the most ridiculously cute and well-styled dogs in the world. My Japan Edition pages are some of my favorites."

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Before drawing a particular dog, she checks if their meeting falls under the guidelines of Dogspotting. "That means if I've already drawn the dog before, if they're a dog I know, or if they were in a dog-centric location (i.e. a dog beach, shelter, vet clinic), I don't draw them," Kasey clarified.

She added that it makes the creative process spontaneous and more challenging.

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"After that, it basically comes down to which dogs I see that have the strongest personalities, which ones I can come up with the best/funniest caption for, and also which ones suit the page the best.

I try to consider the pages as full pieces more than just the individual panels, so I think about each one having a "punchline" of sorts. When I write it all out, it seems like so much mental work for silly dog comics, but it's mostly all subconscious!"

Currently, Kasey doesn't have any pets because it's not possible in her apartment. The interesting thing is that she never actually had a dog.

"I always grew up with cats. I think that might be why I've kept going with this webcomic for almost two years, though, because I'm a huge dog lover who doesn't get to spend any time with dogs. Any time I cross paths with one, it feels special!"

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Kasey created The Good Boy Report in 2018 as a part of Inktober challenge. It’s something that illustrators do for fun in October, where they sketch something in ink each day of that month.

"I was doing a journal comic each day, but I quickly realized that being unemployed and stuck at home at the time, I didn't have a ton of stuff to write and draw about that wasn't sad-sack-y," she says.

"So I drew a page that was just about four dogs I'd spotted that day, giving them captions and trying to focus on their personalities. I posted it on the Facebook group Dogspotting Society, which I'm a huge fan of, and it took off!

I make sure each page follows the rules of dogspotting (they're all dogs I've never met before and was not expecting to see), and I post them there as well as on Instagram every Friday."

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Damjan