7.2.2014 Baby Steps
Take it slow Kate. You’re doing great. I mean, you may still be wearing a sweater, but it’s a sleeveless one! Keep this up and in a few years you might even catch yourself wearing a t-shirt!
COMMENTARY!!!
This was one I struggled to force myself to make. It’s a long stretch of motions, but not much else. I actually really enjoy drawing this sort of thing, but much like with extensive talking, extensive silence is not always the most interesting thing in the world: The wind was a compromise I came up with to give it a slight visual flare, just so you’re not looking at the exact same thing every panel. In the end, I just hope it was worth 14 panels of making my fingers hurt. If nothing else, I at least had fun drawing it.
Also, I’d love some feedback on the shading/lighting for this. I tried to get slightly experimental, but I’m not sure how well it turned out. I feel I may have tried a bit too hard to sell the breaks in the tree’s shade. But, what do you think?
Sorry for that impromptu hiatus. Wasn’t feeling quite like myself for a while, but I’m slowly easing back in.
I’d say you did a pretty good job on the shading, all in all. And don’t worry about the silence being uninteresting; it’s great for letting the reader interpret the characters’ expressions and movement. As they say on the message boards, 9/10, would read again.
Thank you! I wish I could think of more words than that, but thank you!