page 1056 – hair stuff
*GASP* Can it be? Is that… COLOR? Am I finally coloring pages in again? In fact, the whole joke of this page is about colors, so I must have written this page SPECIFICALLY to be a meta-reference to the fact that there’d be more than just line art, right? I mean, only a complete and utter IDIOT would have written the dialog for this page expecting it to go public in complete black and white, right? Right?
…yeah, I’m a complete and total idiot, and this page actually WAS originally loaded with nothing colored in, just like the previous pages. But thankfully, since the heavy lifting was already done before I left for Atlanta last week, I’ve had time to go back and at least color in the two characters talking, so that the dialog isn’t COMPLETE nonsense to anyone who doesn’t already know what they’re supposed to look like. And, of course, the best part is, it STILL relies on a bit of reader’s knowledge to know that the trim on Lynne-3’s jacket is pink and Layla’s hair is red when we see them NOT in mostly grey scale.
Incidentally, the reason I usually do the comic that way is primarily a time thing. I mean, theoretically it was to make the pages easier to print one day, but really it just helps me get things done faster. Balancing light and dark is a lot easier than balancing a whole array of colors against each other, and there’s a level of detail that looks “done” to me in grey that only looks like a rough draft at best in full color. As you’ve no doubt notice over the years, I need as much help getting things done on time as I can get.
Also incidentally, I really do like dressing Layla in blues and purples because of how her red hair pops against it… even if we so rarely get to actually see that happen.
And last of all, there’s still no new Voting Incentive today, BUT they should be back to normal come Friday. Now, back to work on Conventional Wisdom comics…
(Historical Notes: Not a lot to add to this one, since Past Me already went back and did HALF of my job for me. I probably SHOULD have started over from scratch and done the whole thing in color so that the joke would make more sense, but, well, I’ve still got a lot more comics to do. This past four pages took more time than the previous twenty put together. Oh, and there was some interesting speculation on whether Lynne should have used something more future-y like nanotechnology to change his hair color, which HE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD HAVE.)
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