Alpha Flag: Foxtrot - PDF Download (Patreon)

After a break to move countries, it's time to get back in the Alpha Flag saddle. The new pages will start soon, but until then, here's another PDF of an earlier chapter: Foxtrot.

This one never got a wide release (outside of the mailing list), so if you had a gap in your AF PDF collection, this should fill it.

I drew Foxtrot from November 2012 - August 2013. It was the tail-end of the period where I hadn't quite accepted that I could ink on anything other than super-polished pencil lines. As a consequence, the pages took many extra hours to pencil, and took a much greater emotional toll, since it loaded almost all of the difficult finalization decisions on the penciling stage, instead of distributing them more evenly. It made each penciling phase quite a daunting prospect.

That said, it made for some pretty nice pencils. You can see just how much I was afraid of letting the page go to inks without working it to death by how much residual graphite is smudged all over the page. There are sections that are basically a cloud of smudge with clean white erase marks cutting through them. Common for the pages at the time!

Most of the changes I made between the two steps on this page in particular were repositioning of features. Mouths, eyes. All the things that look fine when you're drawing, but then when you look at it the next day you're shocked that you couldn't see the errors before.