Today’s update will occur tomorrow. I finally got my art supplies back, along with many other things, and I’ve been working hard around the house to finally get everything back in to some semblance of order.
Archive for ‘April 5th, 2009’
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It’s nice to have all my art supplies back. I never realized how heavily I relied on my brush until I had to use technical pens and Pitt brushes. The horror! Peace, my friends. Let there be no more weeping and gnashing of teeth; Let there be no more beating of breasts.
I balanced the dark and the light here for visual appeal. I tried leaving the third panel lit, thinking it would really draw attention to the last panel, but it was too unbalanced.
Originally, the last panel was intended to have the Main Character yelling, panicking. I had designed the letters to be large and italic, with a starburst word balloon. The more I thought about it, I really wanted to drive home the sense of loss. This offsets the second panel, where he says he would have been ready for the power outage and makes it a point that he realizes he’s not ready. When he was panicking, it seemed more like a knee-jerk reaction, not really a loss. I made the letters a bit smaller, gave them a generous word balloon and drew some “rainy” balloon accents to reinforce the mood. I also mirrored the second panel in writing, with minimal words in the last panel and three full sentences in the second. Both ended in the word, “ready”.