Far Out There

Okay, confession time. This is the first page I’ve done since getting back from Otakon, and getting that huge Conventional Wisdom update done REALLY burned me out. Thus, it was very VERY hard to get myself into the mood to draw again. Heck, I went outside to put something in the mail and ended up spending over three hours wandering across town to buy ramen rather than go back inside and work! It didn’t help that this page promised to include two things I really don;t like doing: wonky angles and complicated lighting.

BUT HOLY CATS DID IT TURN OUT WELL. The dramatic mood in general turned out far better than I was expecting, and that final close up is (if I may say so) PHENOMENAL.

And just to top it all off, Pandora decided to start playing THIS right as I started working on the second panel. Too perfect!

OH! And, as always, don’t forget to vote for Far Out There on TWC! The ongoing saga of Trigger and Layla’s past continues to unfold!

(Historical Notes: Well, THIS was one of the most frustrating pages I’ve tried to re-post yet.  For one thing, which somehow turned out to be the LEAST annoying, YouTube had deleted the video I linked to originally, and I couldn’t for the life of me remember what Past me was talking about.  I had to do some INTENSE Google Fu to track down the song in question using only a broken YouTube link.  More frustrating in the long term, though, was the comic itself.  I’ve mentioned before that my “master copies” of these pages tend to not have typos corrected, so I’ve been grabbing the web-sized versions off of SmackJeeves as much as possible.  Recently, however, I’ve noticed the image quality on the more colorful pages has been… lacking.  I’ve been seeing more and more artifacting where I really didn’t recall there being any before.  This page in particular was so bad that I went ahead and re-edited the original, and sure enough, it looks a whole lot nicer than SmackJeeves copy.  I wonder if SJ has started compressing the image files to save space?  If so, that’s just one more reason to be moving out… and one more thing to slow down the re-posting process if I keep having to stop and re-do more pages.  Because if this one is any indication, I will NOT be able to resist the urge to waste time fiddling with other minor details.)