Peace and Joy in Twenty-Four Hours
Jun. 23rd, 2005 09:21 pm
The floating puffball character was adopted from one of
This page also has the one thing that I was most tempted to change at the end: in the bottom panel, I didn't have room to put the puffball where he should've been, floating between Peace and Joy. I wound up sticking him in front of Joy because there wasn't space for him anywhere else. At first, I had his back to the viewer, but Lut read it while I was still working on the comic, and commented that he thought the puffball was part of Joy's costume in the last panel. So I stuck in a mouth and an eye to make it more obvious.
It does the job, more or less, but I was tempted to do some serious cut-and-paste work on this panel (with actual scissors and tape) to make the layout work better. I finished my bare-minimum inking on the last page with an hour and a half to go, so I had time to re-do that panel if I chose to. Instead, I worked on making various other improvements -- adding background elements here and there, erasing some pencil marks, checking for spots I'd missed inking (and there are some I still missed, even so. Like the white space between the "when?" and "three months ago" in the third panel of this page. Sigh).
One of the things I did in those last ninety minutes was add the stars into the background on these pages. (I had a white marker for just such a purpose.) The stars helped a lot, I think. Especially since it meant that the parts where there were tiny gaps in the inking coverage no longer stood out -- they just look like more stars.