Ties That Bind - Page 15 (Pencils) (Patreon)

Pencils crushed me this week! After how smoothly the last pages of pencils went for me, it really took me off guard!? I thought I'd leveled up and was gonna have an easy time with this page. Instead, I was coming back each evening going 'woof' this all needs a redraw'.

A couple of things happened in the process! You might be able to tell by looking at the Roughs, that I changed up the game plan a bunch. That top panel was supposed to be a closeup, and the middle panel was a sort of over-the-shoulder angle of Judy and Owen kissing. But as I started to pencil it out (which I left in so you can see in the middle of the picture), I realized, how similar panel 1 felt to the previous page's close-up, and that for panel 2 I'd drawn almost the exact angle a few years ago for Chapter 5, page 14 (it gave me such de-ja-vu as I sketched it, that I had to look it up!). In the end, it was a sort of blessing as I wasn't really feeling that panel to begin with; with the content of what was being said (an Owen monologue) we really needed more of Owen's face on the page.

What I landed at, is just fattening up panel 1; pulling the camera back enough that we can SEE Owen revel in the new position and pose, followed by a face close-up. It's his monologue; now it feels like he's got room enough to shine!

As for the millions of shoulders and arms, feet, and faces I had to draw in order to feel like things looked 'right'... well I got no excuses; I just couldn't find my groove. I hear it happens like that; ups and downs. Fingers crossed the inks slide together easily!

Hope you all had a lovely Halloween! 

Version with Sort-of-text is in the attachments (*Sort-of because it's not formatted correctly and just moved around for me to plan things out a bit)

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