TM525- comp and notes
Added 2017-01-26 02:25:34 +0000 UTCHi guys! I was away on vacation for the past week, and decided to do zero work for that entire time. I haven't had a real no-work day in about 3.5 years, so it was nice. Thanks for your patience while I was away taking a billion ref pics, lots of waves and lava refs, haha.
Anyway, this has been one of my favorite scenes for a while, and I was excited to get to it (also to funnel some of my frustration about [everything] into a page for a while, fictional bad stuff is so much easier to deal with than news). Just some fun stuff:
- I wrote this scene back in 2007 while on a big Mario Puzo kick. In one of his books, The Last Don, the Don says that anyone who doesn't agree with his plans "can swim to the bottom of the ocean." I thought that was an interesting concept, obviously~
- I've been reading a lot of Boulet for the first time... his style is very loose and has a lot of fun camera angles, which was good timing for fixing the boring first panel
- Just a general comics tip that I learned over time, I never make the "meat" of the panel the same over several panels if I can avoid it. The bottom three panels on the oldest page are a good example of how repetitive and boring it is if all of the eyes or general volumes of the figures align too well over several panels. It sort of makes your eye fall asleep... I always will vary the sizes, or at the very least lift the eyes onto a different horizontal so that my readers eyes always keep moving. Same for the bubbles of course, but the space that your subject takes up is also important to vary.
- Luca's sitting on a chair because his prosthetic isn't as awesome as a modern day one, and can be difficult to stand on for long amounts of time. Keeping balance on sand is not a fun exercise. I watched a documentary with the first man with a prosthetic who climbed Mt Everest, he had to keep stopping to drain the cups because the interface between the stump and the cup continually tore open with his exertions and he had to drain the blood out because it kept freezing and lowering his body temperature. Anyways I imagine Luca's leg also continually supparates as well to some degree, and anyways this is tmi isn't it lol, bye
Comments
We all love good ol' Luca doing cruel stuff (ᐛ) (I remember you were also quite satisfied after releasing the page where he, umh, lets the Carissi emissaries know where he stands)
Javier Dehesa
2017-01-26 12:18:37 +0000 UTClol, to be clear, he is still being a total dick. But also his leg hurts XD And sure, it's fine to mention, the leg thing isn't a spoiler (was on the first page of ch2) and comes up semi-often on his pages anyhow.
Der-shing Helmer
2017-01-26 04:06:24 +0000 UTCHey Ms. Der-Shing, is it ok to share the reason Luca is sitting down on your main comic page? I know it's not a spoiler, but some comic artists like to keep patreon stuff off their main page as an incentive to contribute. I found it crucial for getting into the psychology of the moment. Before I saw this entry, I thought the only reason he was sitting down was to be more of a dick--"Look, here I am, sitting comfortably. Nice, eh? Now go on, swim to your death or whatever."
Kathryn JWB
2017-01-26 04:02:55 +0000 UTC
