First, let me say I’m sorry to do this without adequate warning. But I had a bit of a break-down this weekend. It all came crashing down on me that I haven’t been putting in a respectable level of effort lately. There’s a lot going on that contributed to this. I won’t outline them here because it will sound like excuse-making and that’s not what I’m about. This week’s update will happen this week. But I’m examining whether or not a weekly update schedule is still the way to go with long-form comics. I’ll try to keep you updated on how that internal conflict is going.

Here is the result of that blue-line experiment I told you about last week… First the black and white line art…

And here’s the side-by-side comparison with final and the “control”.

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…I’m playing with my process. What you see here is a render of our new villains who appeared at the end of Chapter 2. On the left is the original pencils converted to blue-line. On the right is the final version using my current process. I will now begin re-inking this using print-outs of the blue-line to play around with technique… I’m very curious to see what I learn doing this.

This image or Ran was the result of an experiment with looser pencil-work. I started with a much much rougher original and handled most of the detail work during the inking process. I don’t normally work this way but it’s something I’m going to try and challenge myself to do more and more. I’ll be posting the process sketch on my Patreon Spoiler Wall.