Ties That Bind - Page 16 (Inks & Flats, no-text) (Patreon)

I studied So. Many. Butts, you guys.

Right, so, what are you looking here? Well, it's the Inks and Flats for Page 16, and then a bunch of show-and-tell of all the work I did for that ONE single BUTT PANEL. The thing is when I penciled it before, I'd sort of leaned heavily on the previous butt (on page 15), and figured I'd just match a few things and call it good, but when I started to ink it, and the more I worked it, the more it looked off-model and weirdsies. There wasn't enough... buttock, and hip, and taint, and ball-drop, and then the weird perspective and... ugh. I redrew it maybe 3? 4 times? Each time it got better, so I just kept going.

Truth be told, I'm still not perfectly happy with it. It might not overlay as well as I'd wanted, and the press doesn't feel as squashed-in as before. BUT. At some point, you gotta call it good-enough and move on!

Anyway, I wanted to show you all that process, show you what I was getting stuck on; I was looking at a lot of refrence and drew a lot of butts. Untill I found things that felt right and fit enough with what I wanted that butt to look like. 

I hope you've all been keeping well? My December has been so flipping busy; this is my first real weekend in 3 weeks(?), just too much IRL-work crunch as the year ends.
I'm really looking forward to finishing this page in the next week or so, then I might take a week off while I think up layouts for the next few pages: I can't wait for it, you guys. I want to see that snoot all up on that junk!

Sending you all<3's I might be a bit slow to reply tonight, and might save it for tomorrow =) Gotta go put a few hours into 1899 (and still have to finish watching Andor!)

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