Added 1 new A* page:I promise this will be the last "bored meeting" page (see that joke? man I'm good) we'll have for the foreseeable future. Monday's page will mark the start of a scene of a somewhat more intimate tête-à-tête.
If you were unlucky to be up and checking the site in the small hours of yesterday morning, you saw the first version I posted of the previous page; it looked like this:
Compare with the version I replaced it with an hour or two later:
That first one was a later stage of the drawing, but once I posted it I realized (I was looking at the earlier stage and thinking I'd post it as an alternate version in the gallery with an oh-so-clever "why_so_sidereus" title...yeah that's an attempt at a "Batman: The Dark Knight" Joker joke years, after everyone already got sick of them :P) that hours of futzing with it--wanting to make the expression a little less scary, and trying to normalize everything and get it all proper and proportional, and then trying to give it some detailed lighting with intricate gray layers--had robbed whatever verve and expressiveness the drawing had had in the first place; it had become boring, and while perhaps technically more correct in some areas, left the eye with little to do but pick at the remaining discrepancies--whereas the earlier, rougher stage of the drawing, while oddly askew, googly-eyed, etc, at least suggests some unease and tension in a seemingly innocuous conversational exchange.
Or at least, so it seemed to me. So I pulled the earlier version of the black and white back up, cleaned up a few small glaring spots, redid the shading in a simpler, more straight-edged and straight-forward way that highlighted the black and white rather than trying to disguise it, and there it was--hopefully, a more interesting page. And hopefully this has taught me something. :P
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But it's the weekend and school's out (well okay its also summer but uh some people have summer school probably and anyway don't try to analyze my analogies so much already!) so let's do something fun...um well on Sunday, because that's when I'll have a new page of my weekly fairy tale comic, The Princess and the Giant. Here's a teaser from last week's page that you can click to check out the full thing and get all caught up in anticipation:
Until then, mes amis.
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