I meant to have a new update Saturday. I also meant to have it Friday, but I was attacked by skeletons.
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page 63 of this.
I meant for this to occur earlier in the “story,” but I could not find a good place to insert it, as I thought of it quite a while after I should have. All position candidates disrupted what little narrative flow I have or conflicted with another k-interlude. It breaks the flow here as well but I can push it to yet later. What matters is that it exists now, so if a good place appears I will be ready for it. It once was disruptive enough that I drew panels out of order; now even the pages are transient vagabonds.
Anyway it looks too much like I drew it recently, due to the heavy abstraction and flagrant purple. I meant it not to, but my meanings often go foul. I simply could not think what solid, identifiable objects would be in this hallway. Lights, decorations, plants? All eluded me.
I was reluctant to place it here, at the “end,” because I have no idea to call back to nemitz’s outburst in the near future. I think it would be best to explain that around when it happens so that it can be forgotten until it becomes important. Why remind people of it so long after it happened if it is not going to happen again? Just to prove that I did not forget I did that? Apparently so.
It is my destiny to go all-digital with artwork. Jules Feiffer is better at inking than I am. In fact I had meant for this to be all digital, but since I intended to insert it earlier I figured I should put ink on it.
This is probably the quickest, slobbiest, least obsessive-compulsive, ink-job I ever did. Not the worst, but only because I have a better pen than when I did the worst (I had the sense to inadvertently delete the other half of that page). The most recent outside scene was not so bad, because I love to fill space with clouds and building outlines and all that sort of thing. This page is inside a place I have presumably drawn before, so that meant I either had to look up an old page and figure out how it worked or fill in things later, and it appears I did neither. When I am drawing on paper, my computer access is compromised, due to the small space, and my system of obtaining references is terribly disorganized.
I do like to fill in corners with cross-hatching and thatching and splatching but I forgot to do that this time. I thought I might want to add another frame on the last row, and avoided putting in anything I would be too compulsive to remove later, but I mostly forgot.
I did end up taking out
*I never told you who that is but meant to on several past occasions.
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pzkfw sez:
honestly, for lines and colours, the two for me are separated by weeks, even months at time. sometimes it takes me 25 actual revisions for line spread out every half week until I am finally happy enough to color it, this is probably why I would fail miserably at making a webcomic. so if one of the two is good for now, I like to say “just do it” and come back later to colour it. whatever gives the best results!
PurpleSpace sez:
Is not flagrant purple the best kind of purple? Even Cobra Commander makes his synthetic impersonation glop in a purple color!
I had to look up who Pierre Gilhodes and realized I had seen his work before, namely the Woodruff game!
spork sez:
forgive my tardiness of observation, but that is quite a beautifully rendered sharpshooter, though nemitz may do well to consider the texas cloverleaf variant for future submission-seeking as it eschews the clumsy and superfluous step-through maneuver.
Heapinfrimp sez:
consonants: I left a few pages uncolored, and then it was years before I remembered to go back, and by then I was much more fussy about it! I have no choice but to color everything now. Increasingly, crucial structure does not come out properly until then.
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spork:
I will take that under advisement for the next time nemitz has to beat someone up.