Comic #82: Abyss (Patreon)

Originally published:  Mar 3, 2007.

What's the Narya murder count at now?

Speaking of Narya, let me give you way too much information about his robe design. This is the first comic I drew him in that green/purple robe that he still wears today. It was a little different in this one. The border between the green and purple is much lighter than it is in current comics, and the patterns of the purple are slightly different. In current comics the purple is at the end of his sleeves and at his shoulders.

There is one key difference between these older comics and more recent ones. In the older comics I tended to always draw the characters fully in frame, from foot to head. I think this was mostly because the drawings were too poor to withstand being in close up.

Weirdly, because of this, I originally had to draw pants and legs and shoes a lot. That meant that generally characters' shoes and pants remained somewhat consistent from comic to comic. However, in recent comics it's more rare to see shoes and pants, so I tend to fail to be consistent on a specific character's color/pattern from one instance to the next. That seems to be the case most often for the portion of Narya's robe below his waist.

It seems to change pretty randomly from one comic to another. I can't seem to decide what to do down there. For example, compare his skirt in #697 and #699.