Hehehe, that's right. Use that new-found rank and privilege!

Surely this can't come with a price

Kass's face in that last panel is equal-parts adorable and triumphant.

Hahahah! That grin makes it all worth it. X3

I'll bet Kass' mood stays that nice all day.

Aahahhaa...nice work on the long pause there, I like your writing style a lot XD

Thanks! Timing is... well not quite everything, but a whole lot of it!

This might be the best page in the whole comic go date, I can't stop smileing!

Really! Glad to hear it; now that I've finished setting things up (prologue) and don't have to be dumping lots of into each comic, I can do more silly stuff like this.

He said this o.o

Someone had to

I meant he used the th sound xD

Not to be to critical but the uniform seems to flat and looks like its not on her. I think it should form to her body a little better. Just sayin.

Not to be too critical but I don't think the artist asked for critique on the piece so don't.

They are, in fact quite flat and stiff! The standard Ivenmoth overcoats don't provide much protection, being made from a thick, starchy cloth, but are more about presenting authority.

I'm sure this new rank won't be abused in any way whatsoever and everything is going to run smoothly.

I've always found this phrase to be true: "Assumptions are the mother of disaster."

Has Kass started pronouncing "th" sounds again? Not trying to be obnoxious, just making sure it was deliberate.

Was it mis-mispronounced? Darn I didn't notice. But it looks like she caught the mistake. X3

Thanks for catching that! There's always one little detail I miss...

I am writing a fanfic with yinglets. Writing their dialog is DRIVING ME NUTS! I am not surprised a few dental fricatives slip through.

Darn it Kass! Own your new rank and gender! Bust this guard back down to latrine duty for calling you "Sir" and not "Ma'am"!

I think being called "ma'am" would anger Kass even more. I don't think Kass has come to terms with that part of the change just yet.

Moreover, the average citizen has never seen a female yinglet, so they don't know the difference!

is this what you told me by the lady having better things happen to her?

Oh, Kass is just enjoying a brief moment of satisfaction after one humiliation and before the next one, if that's who you're talking about!

Owned!

Also, this looks 1000x better than when I was looking at the rest of the comic on my phone.

Yeah, I draw pretty big, so there are always some details that can get lose when viewed in compressed pixels.

Sssssssssssssssssiirrrrrrrr? <o\/O>>

It was close; if he had hit the "C" part of 'scav,' it would've been too late to go back on it.

then Kass could pull rank on the guard for insubordination :D

Lol, well he better count his lucky stars he noticed the symbol of authority when he did. <^\/^>

I really like this page and that face that guard does as he clearly have never seen anything like this before and Kass seems to be really happy and might even have forgotten about what to be angry about. But I’m sure things will happen soon enough that will make him wish he was still a male human being. Can’t help to wonder what he will do when males starts to run after him and he... still have to stay I guess, because of his current work that he have gotten from his boss.

Ho ho, such crazy ideas you have

Crazy ideas? Didn’t they say they had few females because of something that had happened if I remember right? Also Kass likes girls I guess. What would happen if a male walked over to him and flirt with him somehow? Would he just smile and be polite towards him or want to get away from him?

Naw, just kidding; and as for the question, the only way to find out is to keep reading~

Hey, SOMETHING good has to come out of this. Welcome to your first perk!

I do like how her expression changes between the 6th and 7th panels, and the rather... extended correction of the guard. :)

Aye, Kass had a little "Riiight, that's why I wanted this thing so much!" moment there.

yessss that is SIR to you mr guard =w=~ Your new superior is a yinget, so SUCK IT! >:D

also I noticed Kass pronounce "TH" for the first time as a yinglet. o3o

Noooo refresh

I seen it. hehe tis a fleeting victory in a sea of misfortune for Kass, but fates damn it if he's not gonna enjoy it >:3 Enjoy this moment while it lasts Kass ;D

He is technically allowed to make them ride up and down the lift again to draw out the experience as long as possible.

huh, well guess the being turned into a yinglet girl is paying off...for now 9w9

VICTORY!!

Should totally stretch that a little further XD

My 2nd reply to the poster above happens to be perfectly suited as a reply here as well!

Make it happen! XD

Well looks like he got what he wanted. Careful what you wish for!

...Because there's always some jerk god or genie or embodiment of fate that will then proceed to dick around with you.

And the truth is, it never is.

Very true!

Although some days can be more pronounced than others. such as finding out your new district manager is a very smart seeing-eye dog.

I been there.

Probably questioning life now. hahah

Kass has been doing plenty of that lately; it only makes sense that he now inflicts that upon others.

Ssssssss -cough-

SSSSSssssss -cough-

That guard has some talent for hissing... Love this one, smug little fella x3

Yinglets can produce surprising amounts of smugness despite their size.

Kass' face in the last two panels is priceless XD

"After the last two days? ...Yeah, I'll take this."

heehee indeed

Not a single word, and he accidentally pwns them both, hahahaha!

Occasionally, life just hands you little moments like this.

"It's the little things in life I enjoy; like how much this is going to hurt..."
"Ah-hahahah! Yeah. Writhe, little man."

That is the face of no ragrats. Happy times.

Are there regrets? Oh yes, but not in this moment.

None of these guards must have seen the matriarch yinglet yet have they.

Nope; she uses a more direct route for dignitaries, rather than the route Kass and Elim are taking. These guys don't know what the hell.

Does that route also have a lift?

Oh, just the little one Kass took up to Viracroix's meeting room.

That doesn't sound very...dignitary-like.

To be specific, general dignitaries are usually received on the main floor of the Ivenmoth complex; only trusted and/or special-case people are invited up to Viracroix's meeting room.

So the lift they're taking now is the main one?
And just wondering, is the main floor on ground level?

One victory in a sea of stress.

Yeah, ya gotta throw them a small victory once in a while so they think they still have a chance.

HAW HAW

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh DAMN.
Told him off without a word =D Art looks good, you're developing your style.

Thanks! I've been figuring out lots of little ways to make the art more solid in its comic-ey style; right now I'm playing around with the balance between hard and soft shading (while keeping it from getting too complex and time-consuming), and I think I've just about got it figured out.

On that note, do you typically use grayer shades of color for shadow layers, one color overall, and/or do you ever give each color area its own individual color of shadow?

Well, it seems to be paying off.

Sorry for the late reply, been busy. So, normally my darks are just the flats layer with the brightness turned down. This looks desaturated. However, it's not that apparent on the skin when I apply SSS, since that makes it redder. I believe this how it works IRL. You can see the effect here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14948642/

On my 2kinds piece though, Watsup dropped in and blew my mind. So I can see you're using custom shadow colors on some of the skin, and it looks great, vibrant, but I bet it takes a while? We were discussing how 2kinds does it, as they have very saturated shadows: http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=841

In photoshop, you ever clicked the half filled circle beneath the layer panel in the bottom right? Turns out you can spawn adjustment layers. Use a masked Color Balance to create saturated shadows, a handful of different ones for different areas. You can then just copy these filter layers from doc to doc. Super easy. Also be sure to try a blue-red-yellow "Gradient Map" at a low opacity, and just a couple of normal layers above the characters that you draw on with a big soft low-opacity brush for easy gradients. Setting that to "multiply" will preserve underlying brightness if you want.

The dude seems to know his stuff, as my 2kinds pic has over 100 faves more than any previous pics have had in this time period. 0_o

Mooovin' on uuuup~

Actually, they are going down, now that I think of it.

Time for a cocky strut! Which probably looks the same as every other kind of walk with a yinglet.

Oh no, they certainly do have a cocky little strut; cocky is very right, as its similar to a rooster- head and chest held up and back further than usual, making them more vertical than horizontal, and tends to naturally make their neck tufts puff our further.

"DEAR DIARY,

TODAY VAS A GOOD DAY"

Despite his oral handicap, he has still been writing the "right" way.

He is taking that very seriously.

Up until he's encourage to try out the speech-to-text magic.

Actually, why not? If I were transformed into a yinglet I would not be able to say "another" (for example), but why would I write it as "anozher"? It would take extra effort for me to learn to write it the new way. And even people who have always spoken with a lisp (for example) still spell normally.

Well some good has come out of this for Kass. The look on that guard's face when he sees the Ivenmoth emblem is matched only by the pleased expression of Kass. :D

"...Yes, I am, aren't I?"

Yes you are. :)

That lift is moving on up to the east side

West outer-wall dwellers represent!

That's one happy scav! XD Treasure this moment Kassen, hold it close in the dark times!

After the rest of his day goes horribly, he walks, broken, to the lifts, and tells the sentries to take him up and down until he tells them to stop.

Or at least until he gets motion sickness...
Or the elevator-beast gets tired! XD

eh even life as a yinglet would be better than my life

They do tend to have exciting little lives!

Then again, few of them tend to die of old age because of all the "exciting" things they get into. :P

better than live in depression and pain

At this point in development that was not so different from humans. And dying young meant dying of a horrible disease. I might prefer to die quickly like a yinglet than of smallpox, diphtheria, typhus, etc. And yinglets are probably disease free (having evolved where they had).

Respect mon autorité face

I wonder if it helps or hurts the aura of authority when two little fangs poke out of one's mouth when they smile.

I thought there was only one shelltooth?

Rank hatthh.. haff... haz itz privilegez, yez.

It has its burdens too, however; which are harder to carry when you technically don't have shoulders.

sssssssssssssssssssssssssssss(shiiiit she's higher ranked than me)

By the way, the glow on the last panel definitely makes me think of Scott Pilgrim

Glowy for different reasons, but glowy nonetheless.

Zose ears! :D

They are good for hearing, but not very good for smelling.

That price is $14.99 at most retailers.

Seems like things are looking up for kass, and i was wrong about the humiliation......For now....

On a similar note, a girl might be feeling rather nice being given a feast and carried up a mountain in a comfortable gurney, but then again there is a "sacrifice to the volcano"-related occurrence in the near future.

XD Dat face lol!

Hey look! Kass is capable of making expressions other than despairing, angry, and confused!

Yay, Kass finally manages a smile after all this time of being a Scav.

MAKE IT LAST, BUDDY

First time he's been called a guy in a while, by a stranger no less, that is definitely enough to get this guy in good spirits.

It helps that most people have no idea what a female yinglet actually looks like; only that they're almost never outside!

The face in the last panel is just PERFECT XD

Uh-oh, have I really hit perfection already? Welp, guess it's time to retire~

HA, The Guards Faces are funny. Gears are working but arent making any sense, They are like dafuq xD

When did the world change so drastically

I forsee Kass confusing a lot of guards.

Oh, sooner or later there will be an announcement to Ivenmoth personnel: "No, it is not a joke. Resume your duties as usual."

A small consolation, perhaps. But a consolation nonetheless!

And a happy Kass is a cute Kass. Love the expressiveness of the ears.

Yeah, yinglets have a lot of emotional 'tells' other than their facial expressions.

They are not very good liars or Poker players.

So one crime they are not likely to commit is con artist?

Kass looks like he's literally thinking "Mwhahaha!" and just barely holding it back in that second to last panel.

The lift's goin' down, but I'm goin' up, oh yeah~

Heh, that black haired guard is a quick thinker to turn an insult (Scav) into a respectful title

Lulz, Kass just broke those the brains of those guys

excellent recovery.

*starts watching artist for two reasons*
1: This comic
2: that 'sir' line was the best delivered line, and I nearly hurt myself trying not to laugh.

The logo looks a bit like a badminton bird o:

Finally, something is going Kass' way! :D I am filled with joy!

That guy with the pole axe is really in over his head.

Nice recovery.

And I hate the feeling that I'd be that guy.

Happy Yinglet is best Yinglet :3

Ehehehehe ;D this just made me smile so hard x3 well deserved after all this change.

Kass' ear movement is spot-on for those last few panels. XD

Yay! Something positive for Kass!

lol that's fun

Elim has to whistle because, in these days, elevators don't have calming music playing, which is often used as a joke in such instances as https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nAgSecmB9lM or https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZuwZiaW4kA.

Last panel:
Guard 1: Oh-kaaaayyy...
Guard 2: La, la, la, la...
Guard 3: WTF!?

Right, Guard 2 is Elim. AAAUUURRRG!