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Finally Tina has presented Sherryl with a serious contender for 'waterproof shoe that she can walk home in without embarassing herself.

Almost.

Well, not embarrassment, but the height of those wedge platforms is giving Sherryl flasbacks of banging her head on low-hanging stuff. Or reruns of Max Headroom (this character did exist during MH's run). Sherryl is questioning the height of the heel (as a human, Sherryl would be around 6' or 183 cm tall) when Tina presents her with a more conventional variant of the style, this time in her favorite color. I think we have a winner.

So why am I spending so much time on a couple of girls picking out shoes? It's a setup to some events slated to happen on their walk home. This page marks the last of the penciled-on-real-media pages in What, me Furry? and subsequent pages will be fully digital. What ensues on them is not yet thumbnailed out or scripted, but everything taking place from now to the introduction of new characters is mapped out, at least in my headcanon.

Technical:

Somewhere, there may be a reference to this being Installment 61. It got bumped up one slot when I split what was to be Installment 60 into two separate uploads.

It is with this installment I started using hair-highlight brushes on Tina and Sherryl. In an attempt to shorten the time needed to color this installment, I spent two weeks with all four pages open in Clip Studio, methodically filling in flat colors for both characters, assembly-line style till I hit either end of the sequence, then switching to another element common to most panels and working back to where I came from. Once the flats were done, I also did the shading/highlighting in the same manner. In the course of this, I had to experiment with a few different methods of producing effects like the gold shine in their earrings (more fiddly on Tina's since hers were too skinny to draw a proper fade-to-light/dark-to-midtone transition like I did on Sherryl's, so if you look closely, you'll see inconsistent coloring on hers across the four pages. One other series of corrections I had to make were Tina's hair bangs. On some pages I had drawn them straight across her forehead, on others I made them spiky. Making the decision to make them spiky, I had to redraw the straight-trimmed ones, not to mention redoing the curve of her hairdo as it curls back toward said bangs.

Pencil on bristol, inked and colored in Clip Studio Paint EX. 19 layers, 20MB .CLIP file. Part of Project ID# 451 (Pg#94)

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