Peace and Joy: The Ladybug Queen

[rowyn]

This page gets a bit cramped. If I hadn't already had plans for pages 23 and 24, I would've made this into two pages. Still, it does the trick.

I don't know why the floor in the first panel is slanting downwards. I think I meant that as some kind of perspective thing, signifying the camera was at an angle with the wall, but whatever it was, it didn't work.

When I said at 2AM that I had all the pages "roughly penciled", that usually meant that I had figures scribbled in. In the case of this page, I didn't have Peace and Joy drawn in the first panel yet. I remember starting with ink on this page and thinking "What the heck? Where are these speech bubbles coming from? Agh!" and hastily putting in the figures. Fortunately, Peace and Joy are easy to draw.

I'm not sure why the Ladybug Queen looks so un-ladybug-like. She has more of an ant's head. I think it's that I wanted to draw her seated on a throne and have her face be more expressive than I could (at the time) imagine making a ladybug's. If I were to redraw this, I'd make her look like a big ladybug crouching on an ornate throne-like stool, without arms or a back. I did make her a little more ladybug-like when I inked her in, giving the rounded winged back to her. Anyway, no big deal.

Comments

[johhnymayhem.livejournal.com]

You double posted.. or something.

[rowyn]

Yah, so I see. It's fixed now.

[johhnymayhem.livejournal.com]

Excellent.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

'Earthshaking' irony, indeed. I don't think there's anything wrong with how you made the ladybug queen look, it all goes toward anthropomorphism.

Artificial Perfection

[barbx.livejournal.com]

***** INCOMING MESSAGE *****

When this is complete, you should create a cover portrait with Peace and Joy as full color, full body figures. I would like to see them in their proper glory.

My data crawlers have located the correct data at last. Your sketch reminds me strongly of Patrick Nagel. His work was quite popular in the early 80's.

The unnaturally perfect, aloof female figures remind me of myself. Don't you agree?

Thank you for drawing the connection in my mind.

-- BarbX

***** END MESSAGE *****

Re: Artificial Perfection

[rowyn]

Yes, I was always rather partial to Nagel's clean, stark, simple lines.

I'll think about a cover image for Peace and Joy. Among other things, I'd have to decide what their colors are. :) I think Joy's bodysuit is green, actually, and Peace's dress is white. Not sure what color Joy's stockings are, though. Hmm.