Anemone Dream, re-finished (Patreon)

I haven't been posting Elephant Town pages to Instagram lately, because I was hung up on the idea of getting this page completely finished first (if you'll recall, I posted the digital draft a few weeks ago when I shared it with y'all, because I didn't have time to properly finish it!).

Here's a comparison of the two:

I'm not sure how many of you have noticed, but I'm using a very faint color for each character's linework. Miranda's is a soft dark gold color; Kris's is dark violet red; Paul is blue, and Berto is green. It's REALLY noticeable when you see the effect next to a page with black linework (like the one on the left)! 

The black linework really pops, but I still like the dreamlike quality that comes from that slightly-colored linework. :) 

So, just for the sake of clarity: the left page was drawn and colored entirely in Procreate with black linework, and the one on the right was inked with black ink on paper, scanned in, and colored (including changing the linework to that soft gold) in Photoshop.

Really I could just do all this stuff digitally and I'd be the only person who cared, but I wouldn't get to enjoy that sweet sweet inking stage, and I wouldn't have original artwork of each page afterwards. ;)

I also made a few adjustments to the pages following this one - including giving the anemone a mouth (!!) - but I'll repost those here when I have the high-res versions finished. I hope you don't mind basically being my editors on these pages; you're seeing them before I tweak them for the website, and then I'm sure they'll go through a final series of edits for the book in about a zillion years!

Here's an imbedded version of the final page, in case the one up top isn't ideal for your viewing platform o' choice!

I'm off to go sledding for an hour or two. If you were in the path of the east coast snowstorm, I hope you're finding a way to enjoy it!!