Melody and Macabre

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Eternal Night, Page 1

Xiam

on March 30, 2008

Ooh, now you don't know WHERE I'm going with this series, do ya?

Okay, so in case you haven't noticed, I've changed the schedule to M/W/F. This is so it doesn't take me three years to finish this project. I love this series, I really do, but I fear that three years with it will cause me to kill someone. I'm hella impatient.

At any rate… I changed my style of comic preparation. Rather than trace over in another layer then erase what I don't need, I just took out the whole "trace over" thing. It's useless, and this looks just as wonderfully sketchy.

As for some of the details looking copy/pasted… um… you got me. I do hate furniture. A lot. Tubs included. So I copy/pasted it all and just redrew Melody's face and hair, and Death's upper half.

I initially wanted her to be in a bubble bath, and show all the bubbles and fun, but then I remembered - duh - Melody's parents present her with very little luxury (her mother prefers to keep it for herself) and so I moved the view lower to not show anything lower than her shoulders (or, well, neck really). Because let's face it, the only reason I want a mature rating is for violence, not nudity.

And if I was gonna do nudity, I'd be much more comfortable doing adult nudity, haaa…

You might be wondering about the hair. Yes, it will be like this throughout the chapter, but no, this is not a permanent change from her pigtails. She loves those ribbons.