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@Seasonspree Here! Have a celebration art! :D
(I meant to do this earlier in your Kickstarter, but holidays and such. :P)
It's been a rough month. Here's a tired Jesse.
It's a bit wonky, because I started drawing without a reference or even a vague plan... but it was nice to draw something just for the fun of it, and not with the expectation that it end up any particular way.
How it started... How it's going.
Happy birth-month, Kaya. You scare the heck out of me, but I've learned a lot walking around in your shoes.
And oh my gosh, FEET!
This drawing was a huge mental breakthrough for me. When was this? 2017. Mid-2017 bare feet stopped scaring me.
Here's a simple one. This is the moment I viscerally realized the power in choosing just one thing to say with a panel.
Sometimes all a panel needs to do is show what metal against wrists feels like. And if I figure that out before-hand, drawing is SO fast. That frame took <5min.
In my earlier pages, I was desperate for space. I was used to having enormous paintings with tens of thousands of pixels, and I felt confined by my own panels. You can see it in how tight my gutters are.
As I gained confidence in my compositions, I let my pages breathe more.
This is also when I realized that while Jesse's voice is "quieter" than others, it's also instantly recognizable as his, even when he's off-panel.
This means he can maintain verbal control of a scene, by speaking over others, in a way that other characters can't.