Moonlight Angel Page 1 WIP (Patreon)

(PATREON SCREWED UP AND MIS-CHARGED SOME PEOPLE, SO I'M MAKING THIS ONE A FREEBIE. ENJOY!)

There wasn't much to show for this week's WIP (it's a house and some trees - not much to say), so I figured we can do a little something different and show one of the many WIPs for Page 1 instead!

You'll notice the text had been significantly cleaned up on this page since this first version. One thing that isn't shown here however (though I might post in a bit) is that I did some rearranging of the panels as well. The general gist of it is the same, but I sincerely felt like I could pace out the buildup to revealing the main character much better. 

Once again you can see that on action panels (such as the final one), I keep the initial sketches very basic and focus more on pose and proportions than details. I wasn't 100% sure what the flight power would look like at this stage, but as you can see, the idea of secondary, magical wings was more or less hammered-out by this point.

As mentioned before, the main point of the flight magic from both an in-universe and meta standpoint was practicality. In-universe, the fact of the matter is that any wings large enough to make a heavily-muscled human-sized-or-bigger demon flightworthy would be UNBELIEVABLY massive and would get in the way constantly. In terms of artwork, drawing every Istrala with gigantic wings would just clutter up every panel and be a general pain in the ass. I feel this was a fantastic compromise in addition to giving the Istrala a very recognizable, unique visual feature.