[ (06/18/2025) Number 91 in the 'over 2000 views club']
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Commissioned by  backlash
Last of the current batch of uploads sees Zak getting that errant shoe back on, then remembering that time is ticking. He's got to get to school before that bell, so through the snow he must go.

Back and forth, along the path as it zig-zags up the hill.

You know something? Maybe one doesn't need to stay on the long path. Maaaaaaybe one can just climb straight up the hill and shave a lot of time off one's trip. Yeah, that's the ticket...

Technical:
No technical breakthroughs here, but I did a lot more work on this page. In the bottom panel, Zak was originally depicted from behind, looking sideways up the hill. After a (long time) since drawing this pose, I decided just before color that this angle didn't look good at all. You'll eventually see this in a future 'weekly pen & pencil" post, but for me the remedy was to re-draw Zak in a forward facing position. And this re-draw was accomplished entirely digitallly.

Now some of you may consider this tactic to be as common as dirt ("Real media? what is that?") but for me it's a very new skillset that I don't have complete confidence in switching completely over to. Despite the sizable amount of digital retouching I've done, I could count on one hand the number of finished pics I've done 100% digitally. Oddly enough, this appears to be one of the best-looking renditions of Zak I've done in more than a few years.

Pencil on bristol, inked and colored with Krita 3.1.3 and text added to logo with Micrografx Pictuyre Publisher 10, six layers, 23MB at original size (Krita .KRA format)

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