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Master Mummy - Page 8

darrell

on June 27, 2011

And we have the first appearance of Victoria. I normally don't like taking up a full page/update for one panel (or in this case, one dominant panel and two smaller ones) but I think they have their place if used infrequently. In this case I wanted Victoria's first appearance to stand out visually and give the reader the sense of a powerful character. And as for the drawing, I decided to go with stretching her body out to try to give the look of speed. It's not something I do often because I never really feel like I get it right (and I have some issues with this page of course). Perhaps I could have gone with some speedlines in there as well (or instead of stretching out her body) but in the end I do sort of like how it came out and it was definitely a learning experience of what worked and what doesn't (though the final lesson will be reading the responses to this page of course). When I was drawing it I sort of thought that mummy on the right reminded me of a typical Erik Larsen-esque pose.

Locoma - Happy to hear the action/dialog works because there's definitely more to come.

I am Candyman and shastab24 - I think I may have been overreacting to the lack of backgrounds there. I do think with the action going on backgrounds would make it too much and take away from the action (details and sound effects may get lost in the background and such).

ghostrunner, jerrie - Thanks!