I suddenly had the need to break out of the three-lines-of-little-square-frames thing and just wanted to draw Fang all big and looking mean and imperious yet unsure and cautious; casual yet coiled like a spring, and Zedwig looking hopeless yet determined, beautiful and strong but fragile and cracking. I probably didn’t get half of that through in the drawings, but it’s always fun to try! 

I’ve wondered for a while what method best suits me for panel layout; I have long felt more comfortable with more panels to be able to pack in as much story as I can on each page. However, with this one, I packed in the same amount of story but streamlined it a bit. Maybe I could have packed in a little more. There are two cliffhangers I hypothetically wanted to end this page on, the first being this one, (which isn’t a huge cliffhanger really, as far as cliffhangers go) and the second I’m not sure I could have hit had I used nine, ten panels, or more. My pacing is a little off, or maybe the last page really looks blah to me, but for whatever reason it felt completely natural to break out of my standard paneling style. Besides, I always get artistically creative and experimental when these two guys are having a scene.

Anyway, I digress from things that are actually interesting to anyone but myself. Donations! Wow, you guys are crazy generous. Thank you so much; it takes a tremendous amount of stress off of my mind not to have to worry about how I’ll replace my old grannyboard (plus everything that’s attached to it). It looks like we’ve almost hit the target, but there are only two days left! There is actually a front-runner now in the whole donation race, and although it’d be great to hit the target for monetary reasons, at this point I honestly am more interested to hit it in order to get to see what the top donor comes up with for a request comic.  

So the reason I’m so babbly is because I finished the comic early tonight and obviously can’t figure out what to do with myself without a comic deadline looming over me like a guillotine. Wow… spare time… I guess I’ll play!

Thanks for reading! 

-Colby

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