Complexization

Well, it's quite a while past "next Wednesday" and the comic isn't ready.

I've finally finished the art for the first panel. The actual work all happened last night, but the rest of the time between now and then was well spent. I spent a fair amount of it staring at the panel and murmuring darkly.

There were a lot of things I had forgotten to do, and I could tell it wasn't finished. Tonight, I achieved clarity, and the work moved forward. I added five new lighting layers (3 titled "Fires below", one "heavens above", and one "darkness within") and added in a cloak, that was present in the sketch, but somehow absent in the final linework. It adds considerable weight to the character in the center of the panel, and balances the image a lot better.

I should probably add some more shading layers to the principal background object, to give it texture, but I'll leave that decision for after I get the other two panels into an acceptable state. These panels are smaller and less detailed, so things should go faster.

I'm not really happy with the experiment I did with the linework on this one, but I should probably make the page consistent.