Life Evolves

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dragonestea

on June 6, 2011

This page has been brought to you in part by varying shades of green. Green, making life easier on people who can't draw backgrounds to save their soul since the dawn of time.

Actually I have no idea how many people use the color green to cut corners, I just find that putting my characters on a scenic path between the parking lot and school makes things much easier to draw. Characters, after all, are the only thing I regularly practice drawing, and while that might seem like a stupid idea the alternative would be having mediocre characters on a mediocre background instead of good characters on a crap background. Since this comic is all about the characters, I find the latter highly preferable.

Speaking of characters…

What I was going for with Cassie was a girl who is attractive, even though it seems like she shouldn't be. I think I succeeded, but that's your call, not mine. Her design is heavily based off one I submitted to the Ponzi Create Your Own Neosinner contest. After I sent her off I realized I liked her so much that I wanted her in the comic. I'm almost glad I didn't win, because then there would be two Cassies running around DD, and that could get confusing.

Roger is the character I mentioned in my previous note who could be considered alongside Grace to be the main character. You'll have to decide for yourself which one that title goes to, because even I don't know. I don't think not knowing will have any effect on the story however.

This page was a lot more fun than the last one because there was a lot more drawing characters and a lot less drawing scenery and *gulp* car details. It still took forever though. I need to figure out how to streamline this process before I hit college. I want to be able to upload at least once a week, but I don't have a buffer because I'm so impatient that if I had one I'd just upload it anyway. I think I need to work on memorizing the hotkeys for the tools I use most. That ought to cut time down.