Trying to suggest an increasing tempo by smaller and smaller panels, with the final portraits showing messy hair, scratches, damaged clothing, and Fordell switching to daggers.
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Maybe this was an unconscious decision, but I retained the position of the party on the right hand side of the strip and the kobolds on the left for the last few weeks. I think it contributes to keeping the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kobolds can indeed throw a shield away and it’ll cause enough ruckus to alert the tribe… just like PCs can try to catch it before it lands… Just like they get reminded that kobolds love traps. And when you say[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So…many…characters… it was hard to fit them all in the frames. This was a case of the party not getting a high enough Perception check to see details of a target dummy, and I explicitly mentioned a dome like metal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one was really an exercise in drawing all the equipment that everyone carries, in action. So far… it seems to work. At least, the party hasn’t come across 10,000 coins that have to figure out how to carry. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tricky, this one… without a spyglass or binoculars and the classic circular view, how to convey distance, much less have enough detail to show a kobold? Thought about doing a weird fish eye lens with the party on one side,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You have a PC glow about you – I trust you implicitly. Works in gaming; doesn’t translate well into storytelling. So first I decided that we need a few scenes of the Order journeying together, otherwise why would they care[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This panel was an attempt to show the passage of time, otherwise there’s no sense of distance of how far the party has gone beyond Greyhills. Each slice as you progress from left to right shows a different sun position,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Back to the Valmerian Chronicles after a harrowing mission, as everyone needs a little downtime for gaming. Ever consider the genius of how four short sentences can set the entire mythos of an iconic trilogy? “The Emperor has dissolved the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This one was also drawn in May 2020, right after the previous one. There’s the inclusion of the bar, which I’m hiding “between frames” as you go around the table… including it might have been a little distracting, since there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…