Life Evolves

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dragonestea

on June 1, 2011

Man, so much stuff happened since my first update. I went to the North Carolina states track meet, got 7th in the 110 meter hurdles, took exams, sent off a ton of forms to my future college, graduated from high school, and now I'm back with this second page.

Oh God this page…

This page took me perhaps 18 hours total to get done. Why? Because I'm an idiot. Never draw a shot from the inside of a car, ESPECIALLY if you have never so much as practiced it beforehand. It will haunt your dreams. (By the way, in case any of you were wondering what kind of car that is, it's a 1971 Buick Riviera. Not only is it my favoritest car ever, but it also happens to be the only one I have a usable model of.)

Our story takes place in the (fictional) town of Fern Stream, North Carolina. Why Carolina? Cause ah like mah state. The town seems to have serious problems with erosion, considering those mountains did a lot of shrinking between panels 2 and 4. Either that or your artist is incompetent. one of those two.

What I really want to talk about though is Grace Williams. I hesitate to call her the main character, because there is another character that could also have a claim to that title, but she is definitely my favorite. The whole Idea behind Grace originated when I randomly came up with her hairstyle and just fleshed her out from there. It may seem like a trivial thing, but I believe that it isn't important where you get your characters, it's what you do with them. Characters are the single most important thing in a story to me, even outweighing the story itself, and even though I'd rather let you try to figure out Grace's character on your own than tell you about it, I will tell you that you have a lot of good stuff to look forward to from her.

Oh yes, before I go I should probably mention her shoes. You may have noticed they have those odd leather shinguards on them. The story behind those is that some time ago I befriended Geo Delmaro, author of the webcomic In Dark Hell on DD (It's unfortunately on hiatus right now because he's got some personal issues to deal with right now, but I highly recommend you check it out.) He said he would be willing to re-draw a group shot of my main cast if I were to draw one and send it to him. Like the artistic noob I am I cut off Grace's feet, so just for the hell of it he improvised these shoes. I liked them so much that I decided to keep them, and that is the tale of how Grace got those weird shoes.