Page 50 A New Friend
skyangel on Jan. 19, 2025
You may recognise this young lady from the Simply Sarah comics. I often stated that Simply Sarah was based on actual events in the early chapters as I felt there were enough of them in my life to plunder at that point and Leo is one of them. I did meet her at art college and to the best of my memory this conversation between us is fairly accurate. She was the first person to make me realise that extroverts and introverts can be very compatible in way that the rest of the world may seem as very odd! Mostly people asked her what she saw in me and sometimes people did seem puzzled why I hung around with her and although we never entered into a relationship we were always very close friends all through college and beyond.
Panel Two: I was twiddling my thumbs trying to think of some kind of boring art we might have had on the wall at art college and I was going to have something done with Letraset on the left and a colour wheel on the right but they looked sooo boring I started thinking about old pop art images instead and this famous dyptych came to mind which felt perfect as a background to someone sitting quietly reading a book. I have redrawn and modernised the image in small ways but if this book ever goes to print I'll probably have to draw my own version entirely.
tommym at 12:01AM, Feb. 18, 2025
Dear Sky, I spent my lunch time in the Library reading {"the Sea Wolf" Jack London] love tommym
skyangel at 8:05AM, Feb. 18, 2025
That's cool! That book was bought for my brother one birthday but I was the one who ended up reading it!
Stever_Blotto at 7:15AM, Jan. 20, 2025
I tended to hang around with extroverts too, because it helped me a lot to come out of just working on art or music by myself. Leo's got some awesome hair!
skyangel at 6:01AM, Jan. 24, 2025
I'd recommend that for sure. People like Leo are fascinating as they have the same insecurities but handle them differently and she taught me so much about not giving a damn! XD
UnderTheBlackHat at 5:26AM, Jan. 20, 2025
Oh what a nice page. We really like the rain effect on the windows and the way the cityscape in the background shifts properly with the angle of view! Very nicely done! And a wonderful reason for the two to be someplace, waiting for the storm to pass, and voila, the start of a new friendship! Gotta love the way these things actually happen. Another really nice page.
skyangel at 5:56AM, Jan. 24, 2025
aww thanks! :) I really fought with that rainy pane effect even though I'd been looking forward to playing with it and I'm still not sure I'm happy with it hence my stalling on coming back to read the comments! lol You're always so nice about my art but apart from panel two this page feels kinda boring to me.
A Reader at 8:52AM, Jan. 19, 2025
HA! And here I was debating with friends if you were just using a familiar figure you'd drawn before or if we really did know her from somewhere! Thanks for answering that one. Often people you least expect can make some pretty big differences in your life hmm? Love the rain effect on the window and the nice easy tone of the page. Thanks as always for sharing!
skyangel at 5:53AM, Jan. 24, 2025
I keep looking at this page and thinking it looks too pale. I feel I should have darkened the weather to make the interior lights more homely.
Othosmops at 8:40AM, Jan. 19, 2025
Leo looks just as awkward in her outfit as Nick does in his.
skyangel at 5:51AM, Jan. 24, 2025
She's very outgoing but oddly self conscious too!