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WIPs for Little Runt (Page 39)

Added 2020-08-12 00:22:47 +0000 UTC

As you can see in the last two, panels, I blocked out the background with swatches of color, and reused a background I drew previously for the second panel. I did this to save time without impacting the quality of the comic! Plus having depth blur made it kind of feel cinematic, which is good. :3

All these backgrounds are still very accurate to my grandparent's farm! The foreground has two trees (one with a treehouse in it), and a garage on the right. In the far distance is a large field that wasn't used for much in the modern day, but there was an oven to burn trash in (no garbage pick-up!) and a couple of ditches to put things we couldn't burn, which I loved looking at as a kid because it was filled with appliances and furniture that were older than I was!

Then in panel #4, that's the barn on the close right. Then the driveway/road, which led back out through the woods to some other fields. Along the road were old cars that were left in the woods to rust and decay, that got progressively older the further you went in. Cars from the 80s, 70s, 60s, and then even the 50s and 40s. Then as you went to the back fields, it led to a graveyard for old farm animals, and then a pond/marsh where beavers and other wildlife loved to live. I remember being scared to be near there late in the evening because I thought it was haunted.

Basically, the back parts of the farm were like a museum and zoo at the same. Old things and wild animals for me to look at, which fascinated me as a kid. :3