Issue 2 Page 8
wildcard on April 15, 2018
Shock horror!… It's the most normal person in the village!
First use of tone for a page rather than pure B&W here. Hatching can only convey so much I find and the matter of ethnicity becomes something of a plot point.
It frankly does make me wonder if it would be worth toning everything, but I worry it would ultimately be another time sink. I could see myself getting too precious over making it look right and it would probably pile on extra days between releases. To say nothing of being a further departure from Apothecary Supreme's original style.
UPDATE (22/04/2018): Urgh, downtime happening here. Got some incoming freelance work among other things and a largely depleted backlog so I'll be out for at least a few weeks to build it back up.
Sorry folks! Hate stop-starting with the story but there are some schedule battles I can't win :(
ghostrunner at 9:14PM, April 19, 2018
thats a good theory
fallopiancrusader at 9:14AM, April 15, 2018
I really like the woodcut style of the original story, but I can see how that style can be very labor-intensive. Then again, if the grayscale style tells the story better, then go with that. I personally change my style subtly throughout my comic all the time, just to see what happens.
wildcard at 12:20PM, April 15, 2018
Thanks for the thoughts! :) In a way AS has been a big experiment for me and I've tried not to over-plan stuff to leave room for new ideas (stylistically and narratively). For now I'm just using greys for skin-tone, but if I feel my methods get efficient enough I might get more ambitious.