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©2009 ~raizy
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Artist's Comments

This page actually changed a lot from my initial plans, but I think the gist of it is the same. The biggest change was to have Rhea make snarky remarks in the second panel, leaving the last row to be completely serious. Despite what it looks like, the next page will not be saturated with angst!

Since one reader said the trees looked too blurry in the last page, I tried adding some black outlines to them and the flowers. What do you think? Am I actually making improvements in my attempt to make nicer backgrounds? Or are you wishing that I would just stick to rainbow barf so your eyes can stop bleeding?

Two more small notes: Buwaro, Sakido, and Iratu's entries on the cast page have been slightly modified in light of this page, and there will be no updates next week because I will be out of town. That means no new vote incentive on Wednesday and no new comic on Saturday. But! You know me-- I'll make up that comic page eventually. It just won't be on Saturday.

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:iconhierroofskykingdom:
I fave this comic because I feel like its ... just Awesome! :D

As for actual helpful commenting |3 uh, the second to last panel with the cliff, the lines kinda feel awkward in that part :/ might be unessisary, ... or it might just be me |3

otherwise I feel like the lining of your background has made an improvement :3 especially with them broken like that at parts.

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:iconvivid-nightmares:
Awww Buwaro... very good work ^^ still loving the new backgrounds

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:icongamerwords:
well this is a breaking development. i wonder whats going to happen next.

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:iconkhran1505:
Something about Rhea's funny little expressions makes me wanna giggle like a little girl. She's just funny that way, I guess. XD

Fantastic comic. Glad to see the angst is slowing down now. Make room for the crazy times!

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:iconrawr-grawr:
That last name sounds like "Choice" in spanish

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:iconritabuuk:
I have trouble with backgrounds myself. To try to create atmospheric perspective, I find it works best to drop outlines at a certain distance away. You sort of do that in panel 2. In panel 5, you seem to have more outlines on the more distant branch than on the nearer evergreen tree, which makes it look really close, which doesn't make sense and breaks the perspective.

The evergreen trees look generally weird to me, though much less ethereal and fuzzy than the previous page. They still seem too thick, bushy, and uniform. I've not tried this myself, but looking at a picture of a pine tree, it might be more realistic to draw some of the branches showing through the needles, perhaps by drawing the bare branches first and then covering them with the clumps of needles. That might also help prevent them from having such an inorganic shape like stereotypical Christmas trees.

Don't stop drawing backgrounds! If you keep at it, they will only continue to look better and better and strengthen your comic. I marvel at how the majority of webcomic artists have exponential increases in ability, which is clearly visible just by checking every 100 comics or so from the archives. Look at how much better you have gotten over time! If you continue to work at it, I am sure your ability at drawing backgrounds will keep improving as well.
:iconraizy:
Alright, I'll keep trying! Thanks for the encouragement!
:iconraizy:
Neat, it's like unintentional symbolism or something.
:icontheclamakaeffe:
^^ better job on the trees, definately ^^ Well... maybe... the tree in the second panel... i know this is a detail, but the top we can see should also have some outlining, or just, not so blurred out :/

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:iconpaladinwillsteel:
I'm a relative newcomer to Slightly Damned (and for some reason, I keep forgetting everyone's names except Buwaro's), but having already caught up on the whole thing, I like seeing how far they've all come; from funny demons and a not-quite-damned soul to an unforgettable cast of characters. And the art has certainly improved over time, as well.

Though the "cliff" in the next to last panel looks a little... too straight, I guess? Maybe it's just me.

And on another note, I hope they didn't get left behind during all that character development. :D

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