Private Eye
on September 17, 2012 at 12:01 amAltermentality:
I walked across an empty land, I knew the pathway like the back of my hand…
Heyyy you’ll notice the art has reverted! Victor was SO beat up about losing the simple cartooniness that he had come to love, it just broke my heart. And as he is my boyfriend, I mean, co-creator, his opinion matters the most. I’ll try to work the more detailed shading into some special panels here and there.
If I never have to draw a spinny wall panel again it’ll be too soon
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so he that’s where his other eye went. How he still can see from it is still a mystery.
MAGIC
but really. Zombies can still use limbs that become detached – they’re all tied together by magic. Posti’s eye won’t stay in his socket anymore, but it still functions!
Dun dun duuuhhh
Eyeball, get!
The return of the best onomatopoeia ever! (In panel 2)
Sherpost Humous! He definitely has the “I don’t care about you, just about what I’m interested in” attitude down. Also: ew.
Its like a monocle!
I am going to have to do that to my eye too.
Also, Spinning Walls>Eyebrows?
At least make it your avatar
[You got the Zombie’s Eyeball!
… It’s kind of gross…]
Also
NOOOO LORELEI!!!
The thing I hate about schools today is you learn stuff your parents never had to. For example if you went up to your mom/dad and asked them what a “mitochondria” is they would have no idea.
I bet if i tried I could probably tie that into the comic.
So he just carries his other eyr in his pocket like that? Yeah, that’s not weird at all.
I thought I’de have both eyes-
It’s in this pouch!
Clearly, the “eyes” have it:
If he has a little case to hold it, would that be an eye-pod?
If he fitted it with clockwork, would it become an eye-piece?
I imagine that it’s rather handy in battle: he can really “socket” to people.
It’s not fake, is it? It might be an eye-glass then…
It’s surely quite a load to carry; being as it is an (eye-)ball and chain…
If he left it such that it could peek out of his coat, it really would be a pocket-watch!
I’m not using up any jokes that you planned to include in a later comic, am I? That would be an unfortunate bit of eye-rony…
… <__>
*runs and hides preemptively*
(I do love Skärva’s expression in Panel 3: “… What?” ^_^)
*ahem* On the art side, for what it’s worth, I think that I agree with Victor: the art style of a comic can have quite an effect on its tone, I feel, and I do think that the simpler colouring that you use here is probably better suited to what you’re creating in this comic than a more detailed shading might be (exceptional instances aside, as you indicated).
Caddy, my 5-iron should do nicely…
I think you should use ubershadding only in panels like panel 2.
Yes I did just say “ubershading”.
i love the faces in panel 3!
If I could so suggest…perhaps it would be best to use the heavy shading technique the page before the last used on more serious panels/strips? It may just be me, but that technique of shading or whatever made the overall comic seem a lot more dark and serious. I think what you’re doing here is more suited for the overall purpose of the comic…but the other shading may have its uses, too.
I appreciate the attention to detail in placing the white footsteps on the other side of the trap door.
Please call it “ubershading”
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