The original version was animated, but I have long since forgotten how to do it and since most of the places I post to only allow for static imagery it was not a high priority to go look it up once more. Plus, looking at it now, it looks like the layers got merged. Whoops. Since this is all full-colored now, there won’t be any other comparison pics, but here’s the old animated version so that it isn’t lost to the winds.
The official end of Chapter 1 (all parts)! I had Chapter 2.1 mostly done but predictably (writing this note after the fact) I blew through the “buffer” well before I finished Chapter 2.2.
(Update) Since I originally wrote this comment, I had to rebuild my website from scratch. On top of that, I ran into an issue where one of the plugins was converting all my images to .jpg and I on;t noticed it now. So basically I had to go back and redo a good chunk of the work I already did. Suffice to say, I am even more behind now lol
I have no idea why I kept putting random splits in the panels of Pandora, other than I guess it just visually looked cool? It doesn’t make sense from a design perspective, but you know what, it DOES look cooler this way.
The primary change her was stopping Pandora’s breasts from floating away in two different directions… 👀 Pandora’s body type is supposed to be on the slightly chubbier side, but I’m awful at representing it. Just use your imagination to overwrite her image and make her a shortstack. Much like Qi’nya’s nose, I’ll try to be more courageous in drawing it in the future, but for now I just wanted to finish coloring the existing art.
Some of you might remember Qi’nya’s name used to be Qi’nah. Apparently this is a Jewish word, though I had picked it because I just liked the sound. I do that a lot. Anyway, after I found out, I started thinking that a demon who loves money and has a hooked nose probably should not use a Jewish word for their name. I swear I didn’t mean to a commit a hate crime. I might be being over thinking things, but out of and abundance of caution and respect I gave him a new name that was similar enough but which hopefully doesn’t have any cultural links. It really gave me a new appreciation for sensitivity readers and cultural consultants though.
I kept wavering over Skye’s hair color for awhile. Her original hair color was meant to be more orange (like a carrot!), but I made it a pinky red with a light gradient at first. Then I started thinking that maybe a cherry red like Qi’nya’s would look nicer, but then again maybe it would blend in too much. In the end I let my friend decide, and cherry red became the default, with the previous hair color justified as being in the Atra’novalis.
Below is the different hair color samples… I’m still not sure if it was for the best, the orange is really appealing with the green… But cherry red is easiest to use with my usual color schemes at least.
Remi’s a little chibi and off-model in the last panel, but it’s cute and I like it so I’m keeping it anyway.
I always struggle with whether I should apply the BL tag to Paradise. Like, there’s literally guys kissing in the first chapter, surely that is BL? But the romance isn’t really the focus of the story at all (even the reason for the kiss is not really grounded in romance or attraction, though that’ll probably be explained more later), so it kinda feels like it might disappoint people who read for that reason, and so I usually end up leaving it off, even though it might attract more views.
