Just a couple thoughts about today's comic. As you can tell, I was trying to experiment with shadowing, and probably completely failing. For the most part it was shadowed in pencil (along with everything else, naturally), so the results I hope at least give the illusion of shadow. In the third panel, however, I decided to try and mixed up angles, so I put the "camera" behind the characters, and therefore in front of the firey mess. Then my pencil shadow would've looked like just a mess, so I tried adding a gradient shadow in Photodeluxe (my cheap-ass version of Photoshop). Hopefully it doesn't clash too much with the rest of the comic.

Also in the third panel, I tried having the Mechtron walk behind Fuchsia, so I attempted a from-the-back shot. Her face is probably a little scrunched. But, I never really gave a lot of consideration to other angles, so my faces look weird in anything other than from the front (which is why I don't draw profiles). I probably could've just drawn the back of her head, but I did that on Friday.

So there you go. Me trying to be all artistic and creative, and while I don't think it's my best work, I also hopefully didn't fail miserably.


posted by Tim at 4:16 PM