Chapter one - page 13
Metruis on March 12, 2010
I reach a point where I tend to go ‘augh I’ve been photoshopping forever, my wrist is cracking NO MOOOORE' after about three or four hours, which fortunately is what it takes me to fully shade a page as long as I've already put the text and backgrounds together… and even without if I can just copy a background from before.
This page had no background reference so I had to draw a new one. Okay, no problem. I wanted a map in the background. Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…kaaay… nooooo… four hours later… problem…
Yeah.
So.
I spent as much time on that freaking map as I did the rest of the page. I may make a large version available if the co-conspiritor behind the world's cool with it.
Anyway, I did the panels out of order. I did all the backgrounds first (since I had to do a new background) and then I did the two inset panels, then the bottom panels, then the top. I started running out of steam around the fourth panel, and then on the last one I did kinda crashed. So it's a bit rougher around the edges. By edges I mean things like hands, Gotel's pose, etc. Normally I'd polish those if I wasn't happy with them or entirely redo them. Oh well. Maybe later. I'm done with the computer for the night.
@Ironscarf Man, what a great review! Thanks! I'm certainly trying to pitch emotions subtly into the blend and present the whole faded dreams story.
Metruis at 2:48PM, March 23, 2010
Sorry for the belated update... I don't expect one this Saturday unless I suddenly turn into a magical fairy who can paint pages... think Monday or Tuesday. I ended up saddled with a lot of workdays all in a row (they told me they didn't need me for one day so I accepted a different one but now they need me again) and I didn't have pencils prepared, so it's all going to depend on how tommorow (my only day off until Monday) goes. Tommorow, I have to do Thursday's page for BP, Sunday's or it'll end up late too, and THEN I can start working on the next update for MH. Yeah. Weee'll see. If it doesn't go up Saturday, it'll go up Monday or Tuesday. I'll try for two pages.
Metruis at 7:08PM, March 13, 2010
Lol, hits? I get so few, Google Analytics doesn't even realize I'm getting them. (It says I have had two unique vistors this month... well, that can't be right, three people have commented.) DrunkDuck seems to have slightly less accurate stats but it averages me between 10-90 (the high number on an update date).
Ironscarf at 1:04PM, March 13, 2010
I call 'em as I see 'em! Don't know how many hits you're getting but I expect to see more comments as the pages build - for somebody who doesn't rate their writing, this feels really - real. Map is class!
Kroatz at 5:17AM, March 13, 2010
For what it's worth I like the map... time well spent!