Far Out There

There’s a LOT of disgruntled self-deprecation in this page, believe you me. See, this is another one of those instances where this page was SUPPOSED to be part of the NEXT page, but after hours and hours of trying, I just couldn’t make that version of the page work. It’s extra frustrating because this was supposed to be the page that dropped the first seeds of Ichabod actually initiating the next major plot arc, something I’ve wanted to start building momentum towards for a while now… and IMMEDIATELY I’ve had to push part of it back a page. How’s that for an encouraging omen?

Well, for a page that had to be re-imagined from the ground up at the very last minute, I DO like how the shading turned out here. Compared to the last time I I tried to depict Ichabod’s room with the lights off, this looks a lot more like actual light and shadow rather than just, like, smog or something.

Oh, and speaking of light and shadow, today’s Voting Incentive has a lot of that going on… though I had to drag myself away before I was actually done with it. I was fully prepared to spend another three hours doing multiple layers of shading before I realized how late it was. I swear, I’ve gotta stop getting more wrapped up in the Incentives than the comics. This is getting kind of silly…

(Historical Notes: Oh man, Past Me, if you had ANY idea what you were about to unleash on yourself…)