I’ll admit it’s sometimes difficult to decide between using simple silhouettes to give the impression of background characters, and actually drawing and coloring those characters, especially when those characters may not get much screen time otherwise. It just felt right to go ahead and fully render the secondary characters in this page. I’d used silhouettes on several other pages in the chapter, so it seemed like a good balance to draw and color them this time. But that raises another question: who should they be?

Using cameos of characters belonging to or representing friends, family, or even patrons is always a fun option, as is simply flexing your creative muscles and coming up with a brand new character on the fly. I’ll let you in on a secret: one of the secondary characters on this page is an OC I’ve used elsewhere, but not in this comic. And one of them is a character I plan to use later in Aww, Feathers! Which one? You’ll have to keep reading to find out! 😉

By the way, while it makes sense that entomophagy (the practice of eating insects) is common in the world of Aww, Feathers!, it’s also a thing in our own world, and becoming more and more common. It may seem strange, but many insects are considered a healthy and sustainable source of protein that can be incorporated into human diet. It may not be long before we ladle up our own bowls of “hearty cricket mealworm stew”! 😋