So I was thinking of Thorne Smith's 1931 novel The Nightlife of the Gods, a comical novel where a professor type discovers the ray to turn living matter to stone and back again, and then (events) and he brings the museum's statues of Greek gods to life and comic mayhem and all with a lot of (instant) petrifaction and reversals.

Anyway, in Chapter Two, we first get to see the action when Blotto, his mutt, gets his tail petrified and, in time, restored. So, in my third day of trying to do basic skills-development pictures based on Preston Blair's animation guide I had to go and turn it into a riff from that. I probably wouldn't have even done that but then I also thought about how that one Porky Pig cartoon did a fine enough riff on the premise while sticking to black-and-white, and I felt like I was willing to put that much effort it, and, yeah. I'm glad I tried it; doing a partial transmutation is a useful skill too and trying to convey 'stone' in greyscale is worthwhile.

(If you're interested in the original novel, you can find it at http://forgottenfutures.co.uk/smith.....lf/ntlf-00.htm ... CW: miscellaneous bits of casual sexism and racism, plus a few lines where rape is elliptically mentioned for a punch line. But it has got a lot of petrifaction and reversals played mostly for comedy. There may be more; I got to rereading the book, but haven't finished.)