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And things just got interesting. Bursting out of the water right in front of him is none other than everyone's favorite h'otter Lei'Lani, out for a morning swim. How's that for a path to cross your own? Things are about to get interesting for our hapless kitty.
What those things are going to be will be revealed in the coming weeks as I continue to produce additional pages of this comic (of which I have no idea what the pagecount will be). For these first four pages I put off posting them since I wanted to at least have Lei'Lani make her appearance since it's been about a month of inactivity since the announcement on lei-lani's FA page, and the repost of the 'cover' image of the comic. Subsequent pages will be posted as they are completed (but they will have to share production time with commission work and well, daily life)
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This one obviously took the longest of these first four pages. I have n e v e r done water effects like this, and actually had to re-do them after sitting on them overnight at What the Fur after convention hours (yes, I did this mostly during a convention). The first round featured extensive wide flows of water coming off Lei's arms, and I consulted water-drawing tutorials to get an idea how to render them. After outlining all the flows with shadows and airbrushing highlights over them, I had convincingly liquid-looking water flowing over her arms. Except that the "water" looked like corn syrup--it was way too thick-looking. After going back and reducing the thickness of the shadows, I decided to scrap the pre-defined flows and draw them as flowing airbrushed highlights punctuated with sharp points of light here and there where the water acquired a tendency to bead up, as well as linear highlights along curved surfaces where the most light reflects. It's not perfect, but I think I'm going to have a fair bit of practice drawing wet things by the time this little story sees completion
Pencil on bristol, inked and colored in Clip Studio Paint EX. X layers, 30MB in CSP's .clip format.
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And things just got interesting. Bursting out of the water right in front of him is none other than everyone's favorite h'otter Lei'Lani, out for a morning swim. How's that for a path to cross your own? Things are about to get interesting for our hapless kitty.
What those things are going to be will be revealed in the coming weeks as I continue to produce additional pages of this comic (of which I have no idea what the pagecount will be). For these first four pages I put off posting them since I wanted to at least have Lei'Lani make her appearance since it's been about a month of inactivity since the announcement on lei-lani's FA page, and the repost of the 'cover' image of the comic. Subsequent pages will be posted as they are completed (but they will have to share production time with commission work and well, daily life)
Technical:
This one obviously took the longest of these first four pages. I have n e v e r done water effects like this, and actually had to re-do them after sitting on them overnight at What the Fur after convention hours (yes, I did this mostly during a convention). The first round featured extensive wide flows of water coming off Lei's arms, and I consulted water-drawing tutorials to get an idea how to render them. After outlining all the flows with shadows and airbrushing highlights over them, I had convincingly liquid-looking water flowing over her arms. Except that the "water" looked like corn syrup--it was way too thick-looking. After going back and reducing the thickness of the shadows, I decided to scrap the pre-defined flows and draw them as flowing airbrushed highlights punctuated with sharp points of light here and there where the water acquired a tendency to bead up, as well as linear highlights along curved surfaces where the most light reflects. It's not perfect, but I think I'm going to have a fair bit of practice drawing wet things by the time this little story sees completion
Pencil on bristol, inked and colored in Clip Studio Paint EX. X layers, 30MB in CSP's .clip format.
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File Size 140 kB
No idea. I've thumbnailed out to 13 pages with more to come. 
lei-lani seems to think it'll hit 30.
The actual pagecount will likely be less than what I ultimately lay out as thumbnails, owing to normal story-editing and revisions, but it looks like it'll rival A Curiously Filthy Story (which didn't have any pre-planning or story editing prior to the actual artwork).
lei-lani seems to think it'll hit 30.The actual pagecount will likely be less than what I ultimately lay out as thumbnails, owing to normal story-editing and revisions, but it looks like it'll rival A Curiously Filthy Story (which didn't have any pre-planning or story editing prior to the actual artwork).
Not done by a long shot. Stuff got in the way, most notably having to work 11a-7p indefinitely. And this month having to pull overlapping shifts plus Saturdays till management figures out where to find a fill-in for my co-worker who's undergoing surgery.
Currently I have pages 5 and 6 at flat color, 7 and 8 are in pencils. I'm aiming at completing up to page 9 to post the next batch since storywise it's the next logical place to pause while the next group of pages are being worked on.
I'll return to devoting my spare time to this comic once I post the next unrelated commission pic (which is complete and awaiting approval)
Currently I have pages 5 and 6 at flat color, 7 and 8 are in pencils. I'm aiming at completing up to page 9 to post the next batch since storywise it's the next logical place to pause while the next group of pages are being worked on.
I'll return to devoting my spare time to this comic once I post the next unrelated commission pic (which is complete and awaiting approval)
It is on hold for now. There are a few more pages penciled (and re-penciled two or three times), but in the meantime, The Depths happened, and that comic's artwork is so good that my effort here being a somewhat long-form comic involving Lei-Lani, potentially exceeding twenty pages, would have IMO invited unfavorable comparisons to it (going by some comments on U18chan where someone reposted these pages) at my current skill level. Even though I know in the back of my mind that one should never use a *chan board's comments as a judgement of one's skill, it derailed my efforts for awhile.
So, the plan is to switch back to one of my older comics (which is long overdue for additional content, and I need it current in order to introduce three new characters that I created in the meantime) as practice, and when those are caught up, I'll work on upgrading my character models and other artwork for TF101 and continue on with it. I can't match
kinojaggernov's visuals in The Depths, but I can at least try to make future pages in this comic look better than the first four. The other issue is I'm too time-constrained to whip out a page a week like KJ does, which unfortunately is a large part of the delay in re-starting this comic.
So, the plan is to switch back to one of my older comics (which is long overdue for additional content, and I need it current in order to introduce three new characters that I created in the meantime) as practice, and when those are caught up, I'll work on upgrading my character models and other artwork for TF101 and continue on with it. I can't match
kinojaggernov's visuals in The Depths, but I can at least try to make future pages in this comic look better than the first four. The other issue is I'm too time-constrained to whip out a page a week like KJ does, which unfortunately is a large part of the delay in re-starting this comic. 
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