#Night Falls Over Novac Calypte

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I wanted to kick the new year off with a little fanart of some comics I really enjoyed reading in the last!

FEATURING...

@deacons-wig ‘s Fallout 4 comic, THE TRICK TO THIS, which can be read at @trickcomic

@rocket-69 ‘s Fallout: New Vegas comic, Night Falls Over Novac, which can be read HERE (Congratulations on the completed comic, by the way!)

@thedumbasscourier ‘s Westworld AU comic, Nothing Personal, which can be read at https://nothingpersonal.cfw.me/ 

I hope I did your folks’ work some justice. Happy belated holidays to you all, and thank you for sharing your work with us. :) 

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Title page progress pictures for Night Falls Over Novac

The title page was a hasty last minute choice which nevertheless felt necessary for establishing things and actually giving Calypte a voice. Her eye is supposed to look like those photos of eyes where the shadows have all the color and definition, but even if that didn’t succeed I still think it looks nice. The markings on her hand are a map of the south-eastern region of the FNV map. The poms are Nelson and Searchlight, the tip of her pointer finger is REPCONN, Ranger Station Charlie and the Legion Raid Camp are the X’s. The rectangle on the ring finger is Sunset Drive-In and her pinky finger is the intersection right before the Mojave Outpost. I almost called the comic Hotel California.

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[rocket-69]

I really enjoyed night falls over Novac! You have a very cool artstyle. Your use of perspective was really creative and I love the way you used the contrast in black and white

I loved the story too, and your use of no bark noonan as the one who knew the most about the situation. I also really liked your design for Calypte

your details are impressive, for example the landscape in the last panel of the last page, and the reflections in the eye In the first page.

I really liked the panel where calypte woke up and there was blood on the window, as well as the panel where Carla is first fully visible killing the legionnaire

Anon this is so kind. I'm going to think about your compliments for a while. Thank you for writing in 🥺💖

I'm glad I committed to using a lot of perspective. It helps for the distorted places I think, adding a little surrealism. I'm proud that all those moments hit for you. I wanted them to be what stayed with people the most.

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Progress pictures of Page 5 of Night Falls Over Novac

Actually happy with the dog here. At least, the final dog. The original thumbnails of the entire legionnaire killing sequence were a mess, with way too many panels to be easy to read. I had to cut the original third page as all it did was emphasize Calypte’s pregnancy and follow her up the stairs. I can only hope that her shape in the second page as she holds the door shut implies it better. Similarly, I can only hope that the lineart in Carla’s shadow implies her body shape and pregnancy, too. Jeannie May was supposed to just melt in front of the scout before he was shot, but it ended up being cut and besides, her role as a puppeted illusion was not easy to explain and doing so would be a distraction. Boone was also supposed to be a puppeted illusion, a silhouette in a suicidal pose (or a trophy, depending on how you read it) but again, a distraction. It works better that he’s alive anyway. I just wish in hindsight I was less cautious about contrast on this page- the buildings being so hard to parse.

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Progress pictures of page 1 of Night Falls Over Novac

As there’s no body type variance in Fallout, I thought to make No-Bark Noonan kind of pudgy and large. His dialog carries over from the title page because another tumblr user once suggested he was a psyker and I really liked how it lined up with his conspiratorial and yet semi-accurate testimonies. I forgot it was the invisible nightkin who had a lot more insight to the companion NPCs than him, but as this is set after the courier made their mark on Novac, I figured it was fine to give No-Bark the insight enough to know Calypte’s name and try to warn her about (her). Additionally, the lines and panel shapes are all Like That (sometimes off angle, uneven) because I have been using a cardstock brochure and an empty tape roll for the circles to line them out. I have to pack light to draw at work haha.