By now I’m settling down into the Boo and Montey character designs. Backgrounds though…
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Once again, scale and sizing is less of a concern rather than telling the story. One sign of improvement was being able to freehand the desk, accoutrements, and the person in one pass. Maybe one day I’ll settle on 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…
This one was actually drawn in May of 2020, as I had to start on Foul Intentions for the holidays. Definite improvements – a better sense of character size on the page, trying a standardized tavern background template that I can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First attempt at trying a fisheye lens view to get as much of the tavern as possible. There might be a way to smooth the curve, but I haven’t found a way to do that yet. Very keen to try[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Around this time I still wasn’t planning to post the strips for public consumption, so that’s why everyone looks small and thin. Later on, I’d try to fill the frame as much as possible.
Dark Tavern Corner with a Dark Individual with a Dark Past
I tried to suggest someone stumbling towards the mouth of the alleyway with fading, blurry vision.
Nope. Not At All.
Trying to suggest that Boo and Montey were taking a step stage left was hard. I tried having them lean towards Malganis to start, but that ended up looking like a bow, and without being able to see their feet,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You Never Pick the Characters
First time practicing human expressions, where you can have eyebrows to work with! Plus the first female character in Malganis, where the hair and ponytail can come into play… oh the possibilities… and the concerns.
How can you not? First time drawing actual humans… there’s so much in the hairstyle, costume, stance, et al. I’ve found that the key thing is to make them different enough just by looking at their face. I’ve read so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
