Chapter: Part 1 - Chapter 12
Yeahhh, running poses. Surprisingly difficult to draw~ And so many difficult hand poses! This entire chapter has actually been a really steep learning curve as far as the art goes. It’s not even close to being done and it just keeps getting trickier and trickier. And it’s entirely my own fault too, since I wrote it all. Aaaagh.
Hopefully my intense artistic struggle isn’t too apparent, since I’m learning and trying a lot of stuff on the fly. Also, I think I may have gotten carried away with that stone wall, but oh well. I have to make my own fun.
Got a fun image sent to me by a benevolent, anonymous reader relating to the last page. I think it makes a fair point.
You may recall Adrianna’s excellent poker face from prior instances in the comic. Sorry about the lateness, the page had to sit uncoloured for nearly a day while I dealt with grown up things like resigning my lease, filling in forms, and also occasionally eating. Being an adult sucks.
Another difficult page – I’m beginning to resign myself to the idea that I’ve just made all my pages more difficult by not entirely setting the comic in some sort of blurry grey fog, but oh well.
Also, re: the manhole cover fiasco, I’d like to point out a few major points that I feel were overlooked when the discussion emerged speculating why Rhea’s neck didn’t immediately snap under the weight of it:
1) Rhea does not actually have a neck under that scarf.
2) Rhea is distantly related to Rocky Wrench.
3) Rhea is a teenage mutant ninja turtle.
…but… you know, seriously, I will fix that when I have time. Manhole cover research fail, I totally admit it.
Posting this super fast because it’s five to midnight here and I can potentially still be on time with this, yeahhhh
I think I levelled up my street drawing skill while working on this page. I ended up doing most of the work in pencil – I’ll probably post up that page from my sketchbook as the next vote incentive, because I think it’s sort of interesting and made painting architecture much more straightforward compared to working purely digitally. Ok, page deployed with three minutes to spare, awright.
The delay on Monday’s page had a bit of a knock-on effect on Wednesday’s update, which is probably self-evident considering it’s Thursday now. Still, done! And if I pull an 18 hour work day Friday’s update should be roughly on time too. Ah, comics are tough.
There was a bit of a delay on my end with this page – that is to say, I fell asleep like a numpty yesterday before the page was finished. Sorry! Reckon I needed it though, 16 hour sleeps are usually indicative of something.
I regret nothinnnng
And finally! Light!
Herp derp. What can I say, not all my blog entries are winners. off to bed now yeaaahhh
This was a bit of a funny page, since there’s literally no light source in the first few panels – I realised I had to either do the complete cop out of pure black (with optional googly eyes) or figure out how on earth one paints the concept of Eigengrau. German has a word for everything, I swear. So I gave the Eigengrau a shot, whether it worked out or not is up for debate… but, I did try.
On a related note, while “researching” this page I sat in the dark in my room for about fifteen minutes to get a proper sense of it, only to be forcefully reminded upon turning the lights back of my ridiculous photic sneeze reflex. I was sneezing on and off for like half an hour. THE THINGS I DO FOR THIS COMIC
SPLOSIONS
Pretty sure Adrianna should have some sort of brain damage from all of this nonsense so far, but oh well
And hey, there’s a new vote incentive, an alternate ending for the previous page. My friend Abi (who you may remember authored this fine piece of something or other) is completely responsible.
Not gonna lie, this was pretty cool to draw.