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McFly July Day 20: George's Notepad

Day 20 and Day 25 were swapped, so now we're back to 'George's Notepad'! Hope it now makes sense why I decided to swap the two prompts.

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What's this? a BTTF comic I've never posted before? Unbelievable

Okay so was going through my sketchbook and found this comic that I made 2 years ago. It was supposed to be a re-imagining of the clocktower scene in BTTF the game.

At first I wanted to make it a 2 parter but i forgot what the part 2 was supposed to be. I was also supposed to digitalize this but I guess I forgot

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what do you even caption this

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Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

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who is marty mcfly? #2, pages 7-8

original pages + pages w/ no effects + a bunch of bonus stuff including yap session under the cut:

so i read this comic ahead of all the other ones bc i heard it was the best one, and as i was reading it i was like hm yknow this would be fun to redraw. like i'm not going to do it, obviously, because that would be a lot of work and i haven't even read all the other ones. but it would be fun! not going to do it though

so erm..... was that a lie or what. i'll be so fr what tipped me over the edge was the "little flaw" bit of dialogue bc i came up with the framing of him being really small in a panel and it was like shittt i'm cooking i gotta draw this. also the double meaning of "little flaw" (marty's existence in the timeline but also just marty himself) just kind of amused me haha

my process for this was to copy down the dialogue and then NOT LOOK AT THE PAGE ANYMORE. so aside from the dialogue and the general actions that the characters were doing, everything on the page was from my own ideas! if you compare the two i might've deviated slightly from the original. just a little. nothing too crazy of course of course. not like i changed like. everything

i am addicted to inserting more panels for every single expression. if you look at the sketch version of page two there was even going to be an extra panel at the end just for an additional expression and no dialogue but it made the page crowded as i was drawing it so i took it out RIP. in the end i drew 25 panels compared to the original's......... 11. oops

re: dialogue inflection i've noticed that comics tend to emphasize at least one phrase per speech bubble. if you read it with said emphasis usually it's alright but sometimes it flows kind of weird? ("wash your hands" is the biggest one here imo) which is why i changed the inflections i thought it flowed better. also i added a couple of minor things (most notably two waitaminutes i think gbgkbjgjk) to make it sound more natural but overall i stuck to what they were originally saying

ok so the "not look at the page anymore" part of the process is entirely false i did look at it again to shamelessly trace that car. so if you were wondering how i managed to draw such a nice car it's because i didn't LMAO. i think you can tell which cars were traced and which ones i actually naturally drew bc some (re: one that i just copy pasted bc i was lazy.) actually look car-proportioned and some (literally everything else sorry marty's truck) do not. also this is why in the 3rd yugo panel there is no lining in the back of the car. there was no back for me to trace and i was tired.

here's the color test (+ learning how to draw professor irving) i did! unfortunately did not have the oversight to color test the background colors too. i was in the art trenches with those. i hated drawing those backgrounds so much you can tell all of them are half-assed GBKGGJ

speaking of colors i think that the first one's colors are better but i was so done with the whole comic making process (aka. the backgrounds) by the second page that i 1. took like two months off of drawing it and 2. just threw shit at the digital page to get it over with LMAO. like sure ig we doin dark red now

also don't look at the backgrounds too hard. the garage/storage unit thing (changed from a truck trailer bc 1. not sure how you'd install a sink in there? the sink in the storage unit was already stretching it. how did you get plumbing in there man that thing's a rental. and 2. no way in hell i was drawing ANOTHER VEHICLE) is very spacially inconsistent and while this annoys me idrc i'm just here to draw characters in situations.

in the original he's wearing his puffy vest over a white shirt and another red shirt (so his normal outfit but To The Left) but i didn't want to draw that so i gave him a different fit. it's based on apparently this photo from the previous issue? i remember seeing it prior to drawing these but i could've sworn his inner shirt was yellow in the picture and also it looked different. guess it was white the entire time? or maybe i have the issue wrong and this is a completely different picture of marty wearing the red sweater + collared shirt combo. oh well

i keep reading "i know who you are" as "i know what you are" and it never fails to be funny to me. leave him alone dawg

tried to make irving a little more menacing in these considering he's a stranger that just happens to know about the time travel stuff and also who marty is and how to contact him? i actually don't really remember how he got this information but i'm sure it was sketchy as hell. also marty just kind of. agrees to go with him? with no further question. by himself. at night. luckily for him this was not irving's current intention but i've learned that marty is very easy to kidnap. he followed directions to the second location so easily. marty have you not heard about stranger danger?? stay safe out there. your list of traumas is already so long you don't need to encourage another one

my favorite bit of framing is the mirror shot. do you guys think the mirror shot is cool i think it's cool. irving my man back up let him wash his hands and contemplate his existence with his personal space intact thanks. my second favorite is irving throwing the napkin bc i think it's funny

last bonus before the conclusion of this post: a doodle i did as i was making these based on my impression of how the comic was going

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McFly July Day 24: Marlene's Dream

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bttf edited the sequence down but marty originally tried to get away in the parking lot scene by hopping onto his skateboard and grabbing hold of the bumper of the terrorist van. the terrorists drove around in circles and couldn't find him for like an hour

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✨Whenever I do something dumb I just think, Marty McFly would not only be proud, but would have probably done the same thing. And that really helps✨

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The Secrets of McFly July (900 words) by Bookworm Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Back to the Future (Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Marty McFly, Emmett "Doc" Brown, Jules Brown, Verne Brown, George McFly, Jennifer Parker, Lorraine Baines McFly, Marty McFly Jr. Additional Tags: Fluff, Humor, Meta, Back to the Future Musical, McFly July (Back to the Future), Wordcount: 100, One Shot Collection Summary:

A collection of 100-word drabbles prompted by the 9 surprise prompts of the 5th annual McFly July, originally posted on Tumblr.

Basically I just compiled all my secret prompt fics in one place for convenience!

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–When you get the keys to the city)))

–Wha-

AWWW🥹🤲🤲

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Some rough animation practice. I actually have plans to do the whole song but at the very least wanted to animate something to the intro bit. (If you're interested in seeing that do let me know though.)

Hope you enjoy this little bit of gremlin energy from Doc and Marty being a rightfully a bit concerned.

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🎸✨Last day of McFly July 2025!! ⚡️🕰️

Congratulations everyone!!! We made it!!!

I want to thank each and every one of you who participated this year — be it for one or two prompts or for the entire month ( @stillpreoccupiedwith1985 and @knickynoo omg??). Every day it was such a gift to sit down and open the tag and be baffled over and over again by the talent in this fandom. Your creative choices, your dedication, your humor, your care— I feel so lucky to share this experience with you each summer 🧡

I’m going to continue to check the tag into August so anyone still working through prompts can take your time! I’ll also be working on my McFly July assignment— designing this year’s commemorative stickers to share with you all!

Thank you for another (the fifth!!!) successful year! I hope you all had lots of fun and feel proud of what you made! Time spent creating is always an accomplishment!

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a selection of doodles on back to the future ;))) (from different times, funny)

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McFly July Day 23: "Don't Nobody Go Nowhere"

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inspired by my previous repost. pls tell me you guys share my vision too-

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7 Sentence Sunday...on a Wednesday

Thank you for the tag @bg-sparrow !

This is a WIP for my McFly July Entry "Don't nobody go nowhere" (yes I have been working on it, life has just gotten in the way)

The men glance to each other and stand up. “Didn’t know this town still had inhabitants,” the black haired man replies.

“Hello!” Doc calls while still several feet away.

“There’s a couple left here,” Doc explains as they arrive in front of each other. “I’m Emmett.”

“Jackson,” the black haired man replies.

“Hunter,” the brown haired man follows, his voice monotone.

“Marty,” he says from beside Doc. “And this is Einstien.”

Uhhhh not gonna specifically tag anyone if you want to do it go right ahead!

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McFly July: Friendship Bracelets

When Marty comes over, Verne is already barreling into him. “I made this friendship bracelet at school for you!”

It consists of yellow and green beads with a guitar and star pendant. Verne’s is matching.

Jules shoves his brother beside. “I made one too. At home!”

His are made with small nuts and other metal scraps into a pretty silver bracelet. The matching one is a little different, but still the same materials.

Marty grins. “I love them both, thanks guys.”

He puts them on the same arm as his calculator watch.

Like the watch, he never takes them off.