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Indulged myself by drawing my WoL, Sab No, and @margaritadaemonelix's WoL, Popoko Poko, hanging out while I'm working on a project!

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Bleeding and Wretched

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Inverse!Pandora, a creation inspired by my friend, @margaritadaemonelix!

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Taking a break.

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Chokehold.

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Skating in the light of hope.

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Washing food down!

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I've been putting this off for like weeks, but this was a birthday gift for @margaritadaemonelix. I wanted to remake this into a better illustration so I'm starting, but my skills still aren't quite there.

I sent her a print of these two. The quote is from Chapter 21!

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Great Horned Owl studies!!! Each took about 25 minutes.

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POV: You snatched an item before Nemesis could buy it.

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I made this for my friend, @margaritadaemonelix! It comes from her FFXIV fanfic and I really adore this scene. It was generally frustrating for me since this is among one of my first comic projects. I didn't take a year on it tho, so that's something! And it's a bit experimental so that would be why it isn't very consistent. This scene is from the ending scene of Chapter 14.

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So, this is mostly for me to look back on in the future or for anyone who wants to know my process for making this comic.

Officially, I started this project on September 9th, 2022. I did one page of thumbnails all in one sitting. Like this.

I didn't have a clear picture in my mind of what I wanted. I still can't see it even when thinking of how I wanted this project to look.

So, I sketched out the pages. The earliest ones I can think of. And then, I wrote down my first draft of the script.

... Why I thought I'd be done by Christmas, I do not know.

Added some more in October. And I thought that would be it. I changed my mind later, though, to include two more pages.

Then, I rewrote my script in March. This time, I added which pages they would go to instead of the jumbled mess draft 1 was.

After I shared my post with my new editor, who is not the one I directly mention, my old editor noted that I made some grammar mistakes. So, I double-checked the grammar and wording at my college library on September 17th with Grammarly.

… My house had no wifi, and I struggled to get it working. Yeah, it was a tough week from 9/17 to 9/21. I managed to get it done in the end, tho! I'm writing this process post on the 22nd anyway.

If you're wondering why you're not seeing all of it, it's because I'm not subjecting you to scrolling. It was copied from how I formatted it in the pages, so they're very spaced.

Oh right! I forgot. I used a LOT of references and put them in PureRef. (161 MB! Really huge for me.)

And finally, a video of the entire process. That is 158 images you are seeing because I forgot CSP has a timelapse function! If you pause, you can see those early sketches pop up before my latest work overtakes the rest of the process I entirely made up. I drew something with a night sky theme on a whim and went with it instead. (The effect is a crossfade from a gif maker before I put all the combined gifs for each page into a video. This. This is something I plan on never repeating.) Additional Edit for October 1st, 2023: I added a signature so you won't spot it in the video.

Takeaways (for me):

Don't bold so hard! Or maybe learn to bold correctly for next time.

More curvy lines?

Learn how to ink details.

Learn to draw humans more.

Try experimenting more with sketching.

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A Letter To Shilin (@okolnir)