92 – Drawn up for battle
Greetings everyone, and I hope your Sacred Time rites were successful during the holidays! I would just like to personally thank all of you – those who support us on Patreon and make this comic possible ,as well as those of you who just follow us every week. You guys are great!
Now, as you can see the comic this week looks slightly…colorless. The reason for that is simple – our colorist simply didn’t have the time during the holidays, so I decided that instead of making you wait even longer, I’ll just post the page in this version, while we all await the colored one. Once that one is done, I’ll simply replace it here.
2016 was kind of rough for the comic, what with me having to pause it a few times just to catch up with life, other work and all kinds of stuff like that. But we’re still going, and that’s what’s important! I will, of course, try and not let stuff like this happen in 2017, but let’s be real here – I can’t actually promise anything, except that I will try my best.
EDIT: Hey, look at this – the explosion suddenly became much more colorful!
– Kalin
Thank you for posting it, it looks great. I actually thought the coloring was intentional and had something to do with the clash of magics!
I’m will Mullino. I thought it was intentional and I’d be half tempted to leave it as-is.
Happy New Years to you and yours, gents
Welcome to 2017! I hope it’s a good year for you and the comic. And I’ll go on record as saying that I’ll be happy to see the colored version. 🙂
Happy New Year to everyone as well. 🙂
And on the bright side, Our Heroes no longer need feel useless and be wondering why anyone thought they were needed. I guess the Lunar Penalty Brigade has done it’s work and shown the mages what they needed to see. ^_^
Happy holidays to everyone.
The wait is worth it. Exceptional work takes time to accomplish. Thank you for this comic.
Just a little reminder that for the Orthodox members of this group, the winter “Sacred Time” is still almost a week away (coming from Pittsburgh, it is hard to forget as the Orthodox are as common here as Irish in Boston). I would also question whether the Nativity Of Our Lord is the real Sacred Time, or should it be His Passion, Death, and Resurrection, which is a much better analog to the Lightbringer’s Quest except that its date is not fixed on a solar calendar.
PS: Please don’t replace the above B&W (sorta) version with a colorized version; either post it separately or have a link from one to the other. Even though Captain Blood and Casablanca were fine movies in their colorized versions, the original uncolored version had their own artistic merit, and should be available as well, George Lucas notwithstanding.
As someone who also lives in an Ortodox country, my only comment is – get with the times, folks. 😀
As for the colored version – nah, I’ll do it the other way around. I’ll post the colored one here on the page, and upload this one somewhere else and link to it. This is a full-color comic, after all, so I don’t plan on changing that, unless there’s a good reason for it. (Say, a very specific effect I want to have)
An intended-to-be-colorless version would have handled the shading and textures differently. I think the Lunars are supposed to be drawn up across the ford blocking the cradle’s path, but I’m not certain that they’re not supposed to be on the bank either. The colorist’s the colorist’s work to make that unambiguous.
I’m, glad we got to see this though. Working on a grey base so that you can add white highlight lines in addition to the black lines at this stage is a cool technique.
The Lunars are actually standing on a sheet of magical ice. That won’t really show up like this, until the color is added. You are right, though, that if I was to draw this in black and white it would look differently, which is why I have no plans of actually leaving it like this.
As for the grey base, the reason I draw on grey or some other darker tone (though the comic is almost always entirely on grey) is 1. So I can use white to highlight different elements – especially useful for me when I sketch stuff, and 2. It doesn’t hurt my eyes like staring at a giant white screen for several hours on end does 😛
Okay, that’s interesting. Thinking about what had transpired so far with this battle, I would imagine whoever is commanding the army going up against the cradle, they sent out their expendable vanguard to evaluate the cradle’s magical defenses before sending their elite-looking group with their “mages” to counter said magical defenses.
Could be obvious, could be a guess but I thought that’d be a great tactic in this scenario.
Drawn up – but not coloured in!
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself.
Ok, you were right and I was wrong.
It IS better in color! 🙂
Eh, it’s hardly about being right or wrong. My Glorantha is really colorful, so of course I’d prefer to have this in color. 🙂