[(unknown date in 2024) Number 64 in the 'over 2000 views club']
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Now at the edge of the wetlands, Sherryl gets cold feet. Can't fault her though, even though she's prepared for this impromptu hike in theory, bog-trotting is way outside her wheelhouse, much less doing it in brand-new sandals (she'll have to be reminded that they were picked because they're all-plastic and thus water and mud-proof). However, Tina knows something that will motivate her...

Technical:
Definitely a darker look than the previous pages. The setting is an open area within parkland that surrounds both sides of a swath of wetland bisected by a shallow river. Tina and Sherryl are standing at the edge of the clearing, which is why there's forest behind Sherryl, but grasses and water behind Tina. Also, the lighting is such that most of it is coming from behind Tina, casting her face in shadow while Sherryl's is lit from in front for the most part.

To accomplish this, I magic-wand selected all of the characters' flat colors (joining them across lineart with the lasso tool) and flood-filled them with medium gray on a shadow layer set to Multiply, then used the airbrush to feather white onto all the areas that were to remain lit. The fog was simply airbrushed light gray on its own layer, with areas farther from the camera receiving a heavier coat than those nearer to the foreground.

The phone in the last panel is showing a screenshot taken from my own phone on the National Weather Service radar page during a bout of thunderstorms conveniently pushing through my area. The image was cropped then perspective-skewed to fit the phone screen using the Transform tool

Digital drawing done in Clip Studio Paint EX. 29 layers including text objects, 31MB .CLIP file. Part of Project ID# 507

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