Saturday, 3rd October, 2009 Glowing Doohicky
Looking back at this page one week after I completed it, I realized that panel 4 is terrible! It's okay composition-wise, but from a story-telling perspective it gives you the impression that Corey suddenly acquired Mr Fantastic powers. I plan on redrawing that panel, most likely split it up into 2 panels to give it a better flow, but I won't be updating the website version of this page. Any fixed pages will go into whatever special edition I have planned for Crux. What do I have planned? I have some idea, but I want to finish this chapter before finalizing anything.
I guess the reason why I chose this panel is because of the doo-hickey Corey is holding. I got the idea that Corey carries around a magical light instead of a boring candle/lantern. You know, to show off his magical capabilities. I originally had the idea of a floating orb around him, a shout out to Net's other comic Tales of the Travelling Gnome, but Net said Dottiar had a floating orb because he had nothing to imbue the spell with. And when I stumbled onto pictures of Victorian poison balls (little ball containers to keep your pills in), I thought it would be neat if it was a light holder. The ball is compact, has a little gem to be imbued with a light spell, and if Corey needed to kill the light in a hurry, he just snaps the ball shut. I think it's a great combination of Ingam's doodads and Corey's magic, personally. :P
Is there a restriction to how long a comment has to be? When ever I post something it doesn't show up, and in my http bar I get a #error after the end of the address. Am I doing something wrong?