"Bringing a knife to a tentacle fight" -Sofox

This is one of my favourite scenes in Epsilon. It didn't take quite as long to colour as the previous page, likely because most of the hard design decisions had already been taken. There was a certain amount of parallelism too, since for example, the green Lap character has a closeup of their clothing which looked different to the previous page and I had to check with Merlin to ensure it was consistent.

Fun Fact: When I was at school one of my weirder friends gave me a Christmas card they'd modified which depicted a kid sitting on Santa's lap. He'd added claws to Santa, and speech bubbles saying "Die, urchin!" and "Oh no!". I have waited many, many years to a chance to use that phrase.

Also, GIMP 2.10.10 was released on the day I received the line art for this page. I decided to try out the new "line art detection" fill mode, but it was a bit too slow to be practical (e.g. 3-10 seconds per fill, vs about 0.1 seconds for regular flood-fill).


The comic starts here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17939615/

This chapter starts here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/30417174/