Re: "I heard you have a dragon problem?" (Chapter 46 / 50)
Apologies for the double-post (but really, it's ya'll's fault for not being more chatty), but here's some more of the bonus art stuff (more to come).
Up first is shell mishaps. First, when I got so carried away with making a pretty bullet time image, I forgot that my shotgun shoots shells, and was very displeased when I remembered the correct ammo type, had to throw out the page and scramble to
do something less pretty, but more realistic. Then in the second one, I decided to have the
bullets shells explode, but then got a bit puzzled when I remembered that all the ammo boxes we had up north weren't marked with the explosive sign, and did some research, discovered that shells don't explode, and had to rewrite the scene entirely - but fortunately, only the one pic had already been done.
The only thing almost as shameful as the ammo mistakes is the fact that it took longer to figure out a proper way to write out "beautiful" than it took to draw the
accompanying picture.
This scene took a couple takes. One of the attempts had Mario reflected in the eyes, but I wasn't sure if it was clear enough what was going on there, so I just scraped the idea.
After I realized that the perspective here actually makes no sense, I ended up replacing the single
panel with
two.
And finally, I decided that the gun needed to be lowered for
this shot in order to add contrast to
the following shot. The I used the back of the rejected picture for testing out the markers, since I can never remember which purple is the one for Edo and which one is the one for Ridley without seeing it on paper, and similarly have to double-check that I have the right light blues and oranges.