Peace and Joy: Can't Hurt to Ask

[rowyn]

I like the way the last panel came out. Look! A background! This one doesn't count so much, though, because it was a plot-relevant background. Where the background was important to the story, I drew it in on my first pass. In other cases, especially for the last 10 pages, I went back and drew in some background elements just to make the white space less glaring. But, hey, it was a 24 hour comic, none of the backgrounds were really inspired. Now, "Girl Genius", that has background elements that are rewarding to look at. :9

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Re: Can Hurt To Ask

[level-head.livejournal.com]

Who would have thought that the faeries had an army? Perhaps they come from Middle Earth after all.

Not just an army, but a national anthem! And enlistment drives... and politics...

Wouldn't it have been cool to have a gate of real fire?

Faegate about it. ];-)

The Guardians of the Gate have a certain "Flying Monkeys from Oz" feel. Since those flying monkeys were mataphors for native Americans in the original story, and since native Americans are considered these days to be the Guardians of the Trees, this all ties together nicely.

That gate does an interesting optical trick. The "teeth" at the entrance seem clearly two dimensional -- but the curving verticals on either side keep suddenly changing perspective to being walkways on the surface.

I am quite enjoying this!

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