Added 1 new A* page:This is a bit different, it's the not-quite-final pencils; see if you can spot the differences vs the inked version!
Mainly I decided the legs looked ridiculous. : P You can also see a little scrap sketch I did in the upper left corner there to remind myself how the pack and jets were supposed to be oriented with respect to the pilot's body; after all, you can't just have the pack on the person's back with the jets pointed straight "down," because then the center of mass is below the angle of thrust and you'd just spin in circles. It's kind of cooler to draw people oriented that way, though, so they kinda look like they're superhero flying the way they're actually moving, so I made those long angled jet legs to let me fudge things a bit.
It took an awfully long time to draw; sort of been avoiding fully body perspective shots like this lately because it's hard to get them right, and we're not used to seeing people from those angles so it's harder to recognize them. Wait I've said this not too long ago already, haven't I? Anyway sometimes it's good for getting the dynamic of a particular movement, like here, and you've just got to do it. It made me realize though that in the past few weeks my time spent doing the pencils vs the time spent doing the inks has sort of flip-flopped: whereas I used to spend probably two-thirds of the time on the inking, I'm now spending more like two-thirds of the time on the penciling. Which is probably how it should be, because if you don't get the initial sketch right, it's never going to be a very good picture, no matter what silly things you try doing with the ink.
This episode will wrap up hm next Tuesday I think, and then it'll be straight on to...episode 19! :o In which we'll meet an important new character...although they're not actually totally new, having been mentioned--sort of--all the way back in the first episode!
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