Comic #26: Death From Above (Patreon)

Originally published: Feb 21, 2006

Narya and Nyte were married in real life, hence their relationship in the early comics.

I don't have that much to comment about this comic in particular, so I'm going to use this opportunity to mention how I draw eyes.

The way I draw eyes has changed a lot over the years. They used to be partially open circles, and in some cases, just dots (like in this comic). I think I was borrowing mostly from Calvin and Hobbes.

My eyes now are almost always completely enclosed circles. I remember that being a purposeful change, as I didn't like the open eye style that I drew. I still may do it on some rare occasions such as this comic, where drawing a full eye might interfere with glasses.

I also only now realize that I seem to have stopped drawing panels where the character's eyes are just dots, like in panel 1 and 2 above. This used to be my neutral expression for the characters. That change was definitely not intentional, I just seemed to have stopped doing it. I think nowadays my neutral expressions are a little more crazed. I draw the eye fully open with the pupils slightly askew. Look at the third, and even more extreme, the second panel of this comic, for example. In the past, his eyes would have simply been dots. It gives a kind of an unhinged, thousand-yard-stare look that I like.

There. Way more information about my drawing eyeballs than you ever needed. You're welcome.