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Page 52
How do I start this? What do I talk about? What should I talk about? What shouldn’t I talk about?
I ask these questions over and over again; I worry about what I say might hurt others. Yup, that’s me, considerate of others…Sometimes. It depends on my mood but for the most part I’m a nice person despite what other people might say about me.
As for page fifty-two, I’m pretty happy about it though in the first panel, I have to say that I messed up one side of the boat. The one side looks two dimensional instead of what it’s suppose to be; three dimensional. I suppose it’s not a big mistake and hopefully I’ll be the only one to notice this. (Unless they read this of course.)
I pictured this scene taking place at night; the moon is out so I feel it makes this scene somewhat more romantic like it’s suppose to be. The part in this scene I’m referring to hasn’t happened yet but I wish to built up to the moment. I tried a new technique with lighting at night which is basically selecting the whole panel and use the paint bucket tool with a somewhat dark blue colour. Then I lower the opacity of the layer so that the other colours show through. After I’m happy with that, I take the eraser tool and erase a few things so that it looks like the moon (or whatever light source there is at the time) is shinning on them and then there is the final step…I take the smudge tool and smudge where I have erased so it looks a little harsher.
Overall I’m quite happy with how this turned out, I suppose there should be more demons coming out from the lower deck but Crimson Moon was a small guild at first and it takes time for a guild to grow. Although just because they’re small in number doesn’t make them weak.
I have some strange habits while I am working a comic page during the week. I tend to work more on it in the afternoon and well I like to watch (or more like listen) to the television but there isn’t much on at one in the afternoon. So instead, I ‘watch’ LPs (let’s plays…it’s basically a video game while they play it, the commentary is great) and it helps me work a little bit better. Sure, I could just listen to music and that would supply the sound but sometimes, I just don’t want to listen to music. Shocking isn’t it? Don’t take me wrong, I can work in silence but it helps if there is some noise…Unless it’s my little sisters screaming their heads off. I just sometimes find silence a bit un-nerving.
