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The following comments are from when I originally posted this comic on Deviant Art
This is way early (Friday is the paper release date), but it's my birthday, and I'll post if I want to. That, and I doubt there's much school paper / DA watcher overlap at this point.
While I was considering going for a more sketchy style ( [LINK] ), I decided I'm not ready to do that just yet, if ever for this. At the very least I think I'll stick to more of an ink-like look.
Ok, as for what's going on in the comic itself. This is the sort of gag that I think is somehow less dirty with the gender roles reversed. It's a double standard, I know, but I think it would be considered more dirty if Tori was a guy drawing a woman streaking through the mall. Any disagreement on this would actually be refreshing ^^;
Oh, and for those wondering about how messy Tori appears? Well, she's working with charcoal. That stuffs MESSY, and Tori doesn't mind. I do, however. I go out of my way to only get one hand dirty, and to keep the rest of me charcoal free. I don't always succeed, but I try.
Panel by panel:
Panel 1: Tori's fierceness while drawing is an exaggerated version of the vigorous drawing style of someone actually in the life drawing class I'm taking. One time he drew in red, and I stated that he had attacked the paper and his drawing was the result of the paper bleeding.
Panel 2: Tori's pose in panel 1 was pretty much precisely what I wanted, but I realized that I just made her drawing with her left hand and I'd already drawn panel 3 with the charcoal in her right hand. It's a happy accident, as it makes her seem all the more wild with her drawing style.
Panel 3: This panel, in my opinion, looks so much better than the others, and I think it's because I sketched it off of the computer (the rest is 100% computer generated). I think I just get better results with sketching off the computer, but it is more time consuming just account on scanning alone.
Panel 4: This is based on two things, the first being that I occasionally get tired of drawing the literal interpretation of what's in front of me. I'd rather use the model as a reference and make something new. The second is that there is a shortage of male models for my life drawing class, and I figure Tori would get tired of always drawing women.
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