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March 2016

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After a bit of a setback yesterday, including a pretty powerful migraine, I was finally able to get back on this cover this morning. Here is today’s update on it- The final remaining figures.

Tonight I have to concentrate on layouts for a comic project, which I had intended to do yesterday as well, so tomorrow’s update on this may not actually be the final as I had hoped. Monday though for sure!

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We interrupt our regularly-scheduled cover progress update with this piece I found on my backup drive. Unfortunately I’ve had to do a lot of running around today and haven’t yet put in too much time on that cover, so it’ll be a late night tonight in order to make up the time…

Tomorrow, back to the cover!

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Here is day twos progress on this cover. This time I left the blue underdrawing, done on a separate layer (in MangStudio 5), to show why I haven’t completed the 3rd woman’s leg and hand– There’s going to be someone squatting down in front of her!

If you squint you can also see the difference between my layout and the finished drawing. An adjustment of an arm here, a tilt of a head there, li’l things that come up while looking for reference. I tend to “fudge” the main figure, because I like the looseness that you get when making it all up, then when it comes to the head and hands I look for reference to make sure that things are as accurate as possible. If I just draw off the top of my head, eyes tend to get too big out of proportion, or float if the head is turned or tilted.

Of course, now that I’ve said that, you’ll probably never look at one of my drawings the same way again…

Tomorrow, hopefully, will be the rest of the figures, then at least the start of the background!