Format change. Probably for good, there’s things I’m just not enjoying about the endless scroll of largely same-sized panels. It might be better for a world where most people read everything on phones but I just fundamentally like composing a full page. It took me a while to get the designs working for the foreground and background, but once I did it was a real pleasure to lay out a series of differently-sized panels and think about how the word balloons helped to guide the reader’s eye through the page.

It didn’t take too much fooling around to get character designs I was happy with for this sequence.

But the background took a while. Kin had certain stylistic vibes that I just was not really finding the vibe for.

I struggled with a few painterly looks based on the reference images they provided before finally going with my desire for a really minimalist look, and finding something we both liked.

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Also I need to edit the styles for individual pages, right now the actual comic is kind of missing from the single-page view of this! Go look at the full chapter view to see it in context.

Here comes three pages I’ve been sitting on for a little while. Shit’s getting weird.

please sit in the second banana chair, second banana

And that’s it for this little burst of pages. Next time:

49¢. Muted post-horn. Totally not a reference to anything. At all.