page ten

I had big idea for this page.

panel one was to be an exterior shot of a coffee house, and panels two, five, and six need background/environments in them of the nice plush office this scene is taking place in.

one thing i fell in love with is the lizard in black here, you know how in gangster movies they'll always have those scenes where some big boss is running his operation out of the back of a Italian restaurant or something? Well Ras here is a coffee fanatic, so naturally, coffee house. it also give him something to do with his hands while he rants at our heroes, always having a coffee cup in hand.

small rant: people never just stand around and talk, they always posture, gesture or fiddle with whatever is on hand. even when relaxed you see it somehow, posture, hands in pockets, etc. when doing comics, it drives me nuts seeing characters just stand there dumbly or worse, posing dramatically in the middle of a conversation just because the artists has nothing better to do with them. posing is fine, but use it where it's needed, make the real life bits more believable by making your characters behave in believable ways.

end rant