Chapter 8 / Pg 16 breakdowns (Patreon)

YESSS who can resist a fashion breakout!!! We've had a couple of those in this chapter, but this is the most bombastic one. :D

Ananth thumbnailed this entire scene and was definitely going for an escalation of shoujo vibes. I definitely expanded on it with the exploding bouquet haha - it felt really appropriate especially introducing Hyewon, who is basically living in a completely different genre than everyone else. 💐✨

Neither of us caught it until the page was mostly done but this is technically AN ILLEGAL LAYOUT when reading left to right!!!! When formatting a page, you're supposed to make breakout panels on the side you start reading from! Otherwise the eye gets confused about reading sequence*. I think in the end this page wound up fine, I added a bubble overlapping and bridging panels 1 & 2 so your eye is forced down and then right.

(*there are obviously ways to circumvent this being an issue, rules can always be bent and we bend this one constantly lol)