Triumph! (DD4, Chapter Three, Pages 13-17) (Patreon)

(There are no pages 11 and 12, if you're keeping count of that sort of thing. The numbers I use here are the numbers on my files, FWIW. Makes it easier.)

Last week, Katerina was struggling to teach Alexandra to dance in time for the ball; everything is in place except for our heroine's complete inability to dance. Back home, Alexandra's mother was feeling the sadness of her estrangement from her daughter.

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I have no fun details for these pages except that

1) I hope that readers are suitably curious about the ornate dagger, and

2) I hope this sequence lands as intended!

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Oh! I think I do have to go back to Chapter Two and add those decorative tiles to the stairway. I've added that to my Revisions List (post-it notes stuck to my monitor).

Also, in the big Alexandra panel, the hutch behind her initially looked too "mid-century modern," so just now I painted some decoration on it. As a general principle of illustration, it's wild how important decoration can be. It's such an important but invisible-seeming part of our lives; it's easy to get away without representing it (and it saves time and effort), but a decorated world feels more believable.

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Next week: things get ornate!

Until then,
I remain,
as always,
never too cautious,

TC