Chp. 4, Page 5: Motivation

btstudios on Oct. 19, 2010

Whadda loada crapola. This is why I shouldn't be allowed to take a break from drawing, ever: my stuff just immediately turns awful. Terrible lettering on this.

Simple backgrounds, but that's okay. That's one of those cartoonist tricks: ya bust your chops on a couple good establishing panels, and that gives you some leeway to be less extravagant until you get to another big, splashy panel that merits it. It isn't laziness, though; the eye becomes overwhelmed by too much detail (especially in black and white) and needs places to rest.

Anyway. New page! This sequence comes at an interesting point in my life, for I just got married at the beginning of this month. (Hence the necessary drawing break.) But this scene was, of course, not written to coincide with (or resemble) any real-world goings-on. And the story as a whole was figured out years ago.