Comic Report #116.2 - Home Stretch (Patreon)

What a week, huh?  I'd hoped to have a bit more of the comic done by today but I managed to get it just to the last phase for today, and then this weekend I can get the last of it wrapped up and have it ready to go for the start of the week.  I'd been trying to keep these pages inside of the month-marks and my work cycle has lined up with the last day of a month being a convenient deadline, allowing me time to work on other gamedev tasks with more focus near the start of the month and then shift focus into making comic pages in the later days of that month, which is shaping out to be a pretty healthy and balanced workload cycle for me.  I'd been thinking about how I could probably get two pages done a month if I did nothing else but, well, I realistically gotta do other things if I want to rest someday.  But anyways!  Here I am back near the finish line, I'm planning to have this thing wrapped up soon and then it's on to the next page.

I'd been riding the momentum of drawing dry outdoor shots for a very long time, so as I've been working on the recent pages where snow has begun to accumulate I've tried to keep the practice of making a little note in my background block-ins that, hey, don't forget to paint this snowy!  I know myself well enough that I can very easily forget that it's supposed to be snowing and then paint a whole page dry, post it and then paint snow onto all the backgrounds in a cold sweat at 5 in the morning to get the page replaced before too many people see it.  Not that I've ever made an error of that sort before, but I'm glad to be able to edit my work whenever I want.

I'm gonna keep this one short and get back to it.  This page is sort of reaching the top of the hill so the next few pages should be sliding back down the other side of the hill, which I'm excited to get to drawing.  Thanks for your patience on this one, it's been a hell of a month.  You'll hear back from me again shortly.  For now, though, have a nice weekend and if you're in the north half, stay cool.  It's hot as a furnace out there.