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KimLuster on Feb. 2, 2014
Watercolors pencils - Oh how I want to love thee! This page is a splendid example of how they don't smooth out enough. There's nothing necessarily wrong with the look, but it's just a booger to create large smooth areas that don't have those grainy textures. Because of them, I didn't like how the inside of Kimber Lee's body was turning out, so I kinda just ‘whiffed’ on it. That's why they have a partially unfinished look.
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Same thing the story's namesake, the little glowing tinkerbell light-thingy. I wish I could have given it a more dramatic appearance here, but I couldn't make it look like I wanted with the pencils. But enough with the deprecation of my current art medium…
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Sadly, Kimber Lee still knows precious little about the thing that takes up residence inside her, other than it's intensely protective of its privacy, which would seem to be an act of sentience. But not proof - certain mental characteristics can seem to take on lives of their own. Talk to someone who had to overcome a serious addiction some time… That it's an aspect of her own psyche cannot be ruled out.
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Finally, I've griped enough, I must say I'm pretty pleased with the bottom two panels overall, with their perspectives and angles…
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Thanks for reading everyone :)
skyangel at 5:22PM, Dec. 22, 2014
I forgot about THAT thing!!
KimLuster at 4:20AM, Feb. 7, 2014
@Peipei: Thanks! Kick her out? I think Kimber Lee considers that a possiblity :0 Anyway, revealed tomorrow morn
Peipei at 7:41PM, Feb. 6, 2014
Very interesting, I like the concept of Kim looking in to herself. I wonder what Soccoro's dad wants say to her, I hope he's not planning to kick her out :s.
KimLuster at 9:25AM, Feb. 5, 2014
@bravo1102: Thank you :) Maybe watercolor pencils shouldn't be shelved completely. But I have this weird mental block against mixing mediums. It's like if I use reg. color for most stuff, I could use pencils for when I want a rough texture... but my brain won't let me :?
KimLuster at 9:21AM, Feb. 5, 2014
@Szyszka666: Thanks! I never knew the foreshortening would be well-received. I might have go back and foreshorten the whole comic haha
bravo1102 at 9:17AM, Feb. 5, 2014
For me the rough, unfinished look made it look more like the insides of the body. The perspectives came out great.
Szyszka666 at 9:14AM, Feb. 5, 2014
The left bottom panel is really beautiful. Really like the foreshortening:)
KimLuster at 8:05AM, Feb. 5, 2014
@Banes: Haha well she's feeling a bit like Lady MacBeth at the moment I bet! And 'Li'l Mate'! That is cool - but sadly you misread... She called it 'little mote'.
Banes at 7:31AM, Feb. 5, 2014
Out out, damned spot! I like when she calls it "little mate". That might have been an alternate title with a slightly different vibe "The Li'l Mate". That angle on the 2nd last panel is fantastic!
KimLuster at 7:19AM, Feb. 5, 2014
@fallopeancrusader: Thanks! Those are not so easy to do!
KimLuster at 7:18AM, Feb. 5, 2014
@Plymayer: Well thanks! Yeah, it's hard to know anything about something when it pulls a Mike Tyson on you every time you get close... But if Kimber Lee is anything, she's persistent :)
fallopiancrusader at 6:10AM, Feb. 5, 2014
Nice foreshortening of the figure in panel 7.
plymayer at 5:56AM, Feb. 5, 2014
I kind of like this page. AS far as the critter we still do not really know if it's real, good, bad, just a dream, etc..... It being shy may just be a defense posture to protect it self.