Drawing a character teleporting in a static art form is kind of tricky, isn’t it…?
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For the life of me, I can’t remember why I mirrored those first two panels. Might have been an attempt to keep left/right consistency again, but who knows.
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I made the blood pink while in the Atra’novalis… This isn’t for any censorship reason, I just wanted to have fun with the colors more.
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This is one of the panels I had to redo entirely because I had accidentally merged the original at once point…
That loose strand for Remiel’s hair is basically a permanent design change at this point. I also had him drop his gun to justify it not appearing in further panels.
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Qi’nya is probably the most difficult character to draw (though it feels like whoever I’m drawing at any given time is hardest). I’ve always picture him as having a fox face (like Gin from Bleach or Mitsune from Love Hina), but the slanted eyes are surprisingly difficult, and I’m not committed to drawing them closed. I also wanted to give hive a more aquiline nose, but I never really had the confidence for it.
I mirrored the middle panel for some consistency in which hand was holding the hair pins.
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This page would have been done sooner, but before I could finish the last panel I ended up having to work on my illustration for a Mother’s Day card and so it ended up being delayed.
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I kept telling myself over and over that I was only going to touch up the artwork, but for whatever reason I ended up basically re-drawing this entire page.
This and an earlier page where everyone’s faces got all creepy were meant to hint at the nature of the Atra’novalis. I don’t know if I really managed to convey the effect the way I wanted it, so it might be confusing to some people…? I won’t bother explaining the details because it’ll pop up eventually in the story!
