Peace and Joy: Somebody Has to Do It

[rowyn]

I like this page, even though it's a duplicate of a gag done over and over again in so many old Warner Bros. cartoons. My favorite part is the *click-clack* noises in the background, so that the reader can hear the guard coming even though the faeries are too busy quarrelling to notice.

I followed jordangreywolf's advice in drawing the Faerie Guard, giving them a bulky silhouette and spiky shoulderpads rather than trying to indicate specific pieces of armor. Seemed to work all right.

It was a little funny the way the "18" blended with the circle-marks on Joy's wing, making this look like page "180".

Comments

[rowyn]

It's his chin; his head is tilted a little forward because he's looking down at the faeries, so his face is supposed to look foreshortened. I didn't mean for thim to look amused so much as professional and polite.

I think of him as accidentally intimidating, here. He's not trying to be threatening, and in fact he's kneeling and holding his polearm to one side, obviously in a position that he couldn't easily attack from. But like most people going through their job routinely, he doesn't really think about how he looks to other people.