Lovarian Adventures

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Chapter 7, Page 10

Geejay

on July 30, 2006

2006/07/31: I apologize for the delay of this latest comic page but things came up over the week. I usually try to get the comic page started in the middle of the week and get around to finishing it by Saturday evening at the latest. However, this week, I worked fast on a story idea I want to submit for entry in a comic anthology being organised by the Ponju online community. And so, I wasn't able to get any comic drawing done at all until I got that sorted out.

I could've drawn and finished it all last Saturday but I was at Doujicon 2006 held at Monash University (Caulfield Campus) all day. I'll talk about my day at the con in another post. I only got started with the comic last Sunday. And even then, I couldn't do it for the whole day because of house chores that needed to get done.

Last night, I absolutely rushed the last few panels of the page, scanned it in, shaded everything in painter, added the dialog and upload it by 1 am. I think it looks okay considering the way I rushed this page. Thank goodness I now shade things in Painter. Even something done half-assed gets to look cool.

There was something I discovered while rushing the shading in Painter though. It reminded me of the time I was learning to draw with charcoal. At first I was treating the shading like I was coloring my comics in the past except with a grayscale palette. But since I was in a rush last night, I just opted to use one of the darker shades of gray and just adjusted the pressure of the stylus to manipulate the degree of darkness I get (much like when I use charcoal). Cool. The things I learn by accident.

Anyway, I hope you found Nadine a bit funny here. This is actually the page in the script that pushed me to start drawing this comic again. I thought then that I must draw this page and have Nadine say that line. And so, here we are. Hope you guys like the new page.