Also, I edited page 105 and have reuploaded it. While doing the colors for this page I realized I did not properly color Ben in the middle panel to reflect that the only light source was directly behind him in the same way I did in page 103 for Gwen.
Of course as expected the colors took a long time for this as I had to decide how to establish the scene. I’m still on the fence about some things so they could still be subject to change over the next few days, but I think it works as is so far. Also, finished this with a minute of Friday to spare. Go me.
This page marks the end of this scene, meaning a new part begins next week, just in time for the new year. I know many people were likely hoping for Lucy to join in on the action, but this was only an introduction to her character. I have more in plan for her in the future, but that will come after Ben and Gwen finish a bit more of their exploration phase.
I’m not quite as satisfied with this as most other holiday pieces but I wasn’t really in the mood to do one this time around. As such I decided to just use this to mess around with some things in the lining, which I was in the mood for.
These tend to feel like a burden at times because I have to force myself to come up with a theme related to the holiday, so I may opt out of doing holiday stuff next year. Instead I’ll likely utilize the holidays to do an OC piece in general as opposed to just doing something holiday related. This means I’ll use the time slots the same way, I’ll just restrict myself less in what I can do. This doesn’t mean I absolutely won’t do anything holiday related, but that will depend on if inspiration for something strikes at the time.
I wanted to do something simple that I knew I would be able to start and finish rather quickly. I’m also messing around with a different pen tool and wanted to mess around with the coloring approach I tried out ages ago when I first made the models of these two.
I said earlier in the week when I did the SS sketch that I wanted to do the next page this weekend, but there’s less to get through in the current part than I realized, and I noticed how close we are to the holidays, so I decided I should get a head start on some things in case the holidays end up eating too much time. I knew there was no way I was finishing something like a full SS page in the time I had left once Sunday hit so I decided to do something quicker. I took the chance to mess around with lines and tones again with these characters, although I used a pretty thick pen tool to really help speed things up.
I believe I managed to fix the page order issue that occurred on this site upon this comic’s page count reaching the triple digits. It took some time to figure out how to fix it without having to reupload anything, but now that I’ve got it figured out that should hopefully never be an issue again.