What Lurks Beneath

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I like all my freaks as characters

yay! I really enjoy seeing art evolution in comics, it's so fascinating to me.

I especially love looking at panels I remember being SO proud of, and seeing how differently I would draw it now.

I've always liked this panel of Trout from 2019, I redrew it recently for funsies.

Hake changed a lot! So much so that I actually went back to edit him in chapter 1.

He got a redesign before chapter 2 started, and then of course, he started growing ear tufts.

He's still not right in the edit(neither is sturgeon), but redoing the first 10 pages is on my list.

Comics! comics!

You get faster with making pages the more you do it. You learn tricks of whatever program / medium you're using. The more familiar you get with it, the more time saving methods you'll find.

I also think it's important to find a level of detail you are comfortable working at. Comics do not have to be 100% of your artistic effort. In fact, comics should NOT be 100% of your artistic effort. That is not sustainable for anybody!

Simplify designs! Simplify backgrounds! Simplify whatever you want to!

I cut corners with backgrounds, I don't like drawing them and the faster they are done the better. I've been trying to re-use them and use blurring methods to save time for headshot panels.

I typically do 1 full page set of new backgrounds, and then copy and paste from there for the rest of the scene. Editing as needed and doing new ones where necessary.

I do this a lot for forests especially, because they are time consuming and my enemy.

(foreground rocks are on their own layer, I placed them as needed to fill the panels)

And I reused these as much as I could for the rest of the scene and blurred them as needed for headshots.

If you plan really well, you can reuse assets you make ahead of time to a very efficient degree, I am bad at this planning and will usually just use whatever I do in set 1 of a scene.

There are other ways to save time too!

You do not have to shade, you do not have to have clean lineart, you do not have to detail backgrounds. Some of my favorite comics do none of these things.

And you do NOT have to be consistent! You can shade dramatically for a scene that calls for it, and then decide it's not necessary for others. It's okay to try new things! Webcomics are very known for style and art fluctuation, and it's one of my favorite things about it!

I would say focus your effort where you have fun, and find the quickest means for anything else. I spend the most time on my lineart because I enjoy doing lineart.

IM GLAD YOURE ENJOYING IT! THANK YOU!

I think too much about their situation would change entirely if they weren't siblings. So much about how they were raised is dependent on them growing up together. If Sturgeon weren't there to protect Hake and Trout from Thresher as best she could, they'd be different cats.

I don't think Sturgeon would still be part of the family if she wasn't Threshers daughter and hadn't been made an heir. She probably would have stayed a few more weeks and then become a Daisy herself out of grief for the religion that would let her mother die.

I don't think Trout and Hake would be such gentle/fragile personalities if Thresher raised them to the fullest degree.

I'm overthinking this entirely, but so much about their situation changes fundamentally if they weren't siblings and its breaking my brain a little.

What Lurks beneath- Chapter 34 page 1023

What Lurks beneath- Chapter 34 page 1022