The layout doesn’t have any faces. I did the faces on a separate sheet from reference photos to get the details down. I sketched them in my comic style, because the work was supposed to have that simple feel. Even still, the final product wasn’t quite as detailed.
Why didn’t I play around with brushes earlier? Oh, right, it was already taking me several hours to digitally work a strip. Shading by coloring black at 15% opacity is great, but it doesn’t allow for texturing with color like on the flannel shirt. I have to add another layer for the texture colors, but it’s still faster. plus, the brushes allow for the neat dirt effects. I played with a lot of other things, to give a painterly background to the second panel, but I need more practice with that.
