Added 1 new A* page:Oh boy. Still catching myself in overthink mode. What you see for today's page is not actually how it ended up--which was this:
Note to self: slavishly and dutifully plugging in big shadows does not necessarily an exciting page make! Fortunately I had photographed the page at an earlier stage--right after I'd finished the ink guidelines and erased the pencil sketch that had been underneath them--so I ended up using that photo to make the final digital version of the actual A* page. Before I did that I considered a few alternatives, mocked up in Photoshop:
They didn't seem quite as nice as the original line version, though. And for the sake of completeness, here's the photo of the pencil stage:
So yeah, I take photos as an insurance policy against screwing up later. :P Comes in pretty handy sometimes!
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