Posted by qynceb on Jan 22, 2022
howdy!
I've been on a roll the last few days -- I've penciled 21 pages in 3 days! and thumb'd quite a few, too! I'm penciling probably my favorite scene in the whole book right now, which has probably helped. I call it the Beautiful Shots of Carpeting scene and I hope I can draw it to live up to it's name.
The story is partly inspired by my experience working for my college's facilities management while I was a student. I worked with the school's mason/flooring guy, and did a lot of carpeting for a couple summers. All the carpeting we did was carpet tile and I both loved and hated doing it, so this scene is kind of a love/hate letter to carpeting. I'm having a lot of fun using tiling in the layouts, and laying out these full page drawings that (I hope) will be beautiful and full of really intricate textural detail once I get to inks.
In thumb news, I just started on the final couple scenes, starting with the, i guess, climax of the story. For most of the book, the tension is simmering and our protag Cramsey is trying their best to avoid confronting it, but in this scene it all explodes. I've not really drawn a really intense argument before, so I'm rereading a few comics that I feel have really well done arguments in them for inspiration!!
That's all! See ya next week!
In solidarity and cooperation,
Qynce