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GreenKrog on Jan. 19, 2014

Did the ‘big reveal’ feel like a letdown? Good. It was supposed to. It wasn't supposed to be some big THING. Just a change into.. normalcy. Its a person wearing clothes that a person wears. Nothing more. The other full page ones were great personal expression - this isn't. It is just a girl, wearing clothes. Utterly normal clothes.
And yet, now, her world is in colour. For the first time, in colour.
(Also, I learned shading this last week, and I am going back and fixing each day as it comes up, any time she is in colour. So it is a lot harder to retrofix stuff that wasn't designed for it. So it might look a little jenky for the next, oh, 8 months, but I'm trying.
Also, yes, she is the light source in the bottom left frame. And she has an angelic halo in the big reveal, so the light is behind her. Yup.)
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Ok, so, about frame 1? Yeah, that's basically how I felt. On the one hand, its the one thing you CAN wear while still in the closet and nobody would know. But then again, you are wearing clothes associated directly with sexuality and little else. There was, at least for me, a great conflict of ‘what are you, a transvestite?’ for wearing underwear not of my sex, and the personal comforting knowledge that it was one step closer to who I was supposed to be. It can be an extremely difficult hurdle to cross.