The level of detail you put in these comics is really incredible. Keep it up!

Hey Jodi great work! say if you can IM me when you get the chance I need to chat with you and Aelius :)

-Fox

Looks like Ruby learned the hard way that when you're eating something unknown, don't ask what it is until after you're finished eating!

Heehee, believe me, Ruby's got a LOT to learn about traveling, but despite her more insular upbringing than most she's not bad at dealing with the differences.

Perhaps, when the characters are interacting in a closed interior, you could use darker colors on the background in order to build up a nice atmosphere. For example in an oriental restaurant you could use a very simple reddish palette and play around with only a couple of colors (like three or four tones of the same color) while bringing out the details with subtle highlights.

Your lineart itself is so detailed that I don't think it's always necessary to color all the details separately, you could still see them even if you colored over the lines.

Hmm... you know, you're right. The more I think about it, the more I realize that I just need to add some more darkness to my scenes, particularly interiors. As for tones of the same color, though, how do you mean exactly? Do you mean colors that are all red, just darker or lighter, or congruent colors that simply go with red, like brown and yellow?

Ah, sorry, English is not my native language so my technical vocabulary isn't very good. I was thinking of something as radical as using only a couple tones that are all basically variations of the same color, simply darker and lighter than the basic color. =)

You seem plenty articulate to me, and from what I've seen you've got a better grasp on the English language than some of my fellow Americans do... yeah, kinda scary, I know.

I get the gist of what you're saying, though. I might keep that in mind for the future. I'll be doing some more interior shots on more current pages and hopefully I can keep things in a bit more contrast.

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