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My apologies in advance for the cheese dripping right off of this strip. Hopefully, it's still tasteful and makes for an enjoyable read.
In this week's GiG, I wanted to retell the transformation scene from the point of view of someone describing it. This would make it less voyeuristic and more of a rumination. Specifically, this story is told from Evelyn's point of view. She makes for a hilarious narrator sometimes as she influences the comic's internal monologue and style with her thoughts.
On that front, the technical side of this comic is actually noteworthy. This style employs the main usage of a flat-tip brish for lineart and other brush strokes and only uses three colours instead of my usual 4-5. My favourite artists who have used this style to tremendous effect include Cameron Stewart in his Eisner Award winning comic, "Sin Titulo", Johane Matte's "Water Tribe" comic (found here on Deviantart) and Peter Wartham in his webcomic, "Stonebreaker. The last two have both been involved in my favourite animated universe, "Avatar the Last Airbender" in some capacity; Johane with the episode "Firebending Masters" and Peter recently as artist for the upcoming tie-in comics for Aang.
Emulating their work goes all the way back to when I started here on Devinatart. The three-colour style is incredibly striking due to high contrast between colours. It's also theoretically simpler to do since you don't have too many layers devoted to colour. In practice, however, this would be my first attempt at it. The flat-tip brush is really unintuitive to me—working more like an unweildy calligraphy pen than what I was normally used to. This is why you can see a lot of malproportioned anatomy here. It's almost like relearning to draw all over again. It does lend itself towards a more impressionist style so I decided to take full advantage of that in some scenes.
More importantly, this was meant to be the style of the main comic. But I just couldn't get it to work at the time.
As mentioned previously, these GiG's will continue to experiment on different styles and will be terribly light in substance. The first GiG was a GIF. The second was an insight from Eve. The third was both the Mask and Eve having the same insight. This one's Evelyn. To follow in sequence, the next will be The Mask. And then Stanley.
But the next comic to come out on this site should be the next Homecoming. To be posted late this week or early next. Thanks for reading! Enjoy!
EDITED: Nov. 8, 2017
In this week's GiG, I wanted to retell the transformation scene from the point of view of someone describing it. This would make it less voyeuristic and more of a rumination. Specifically, this story is told from Evelyn's point of view. She makes for a hilarious narrator sometimes as she influences the comic's internal monologue and style with her thoughts.
On that front, the technical side of this comic is actually noteworthy. This style employs the main usage of a flat-tip brish for lineart and other brush strokes and only uses three colours instead of my usual 4-5. My favourite artists who have used this style to tremendous effect include Cameron Stewart in his Eisner Award winning comic, "Sin Titulo", Johane Matte's "Water Tribe" comic (found here on Deviantart) and Peter Wartham in his webcomic, "Stonebreaker. The last two have both been involved in my favourite animated universe, "Avatar the Last Airbender" in some capacity; Johane with the episode "Firebending Masters" and Peter recently as artist for the upcoming tie-in comics for Aang.
Emulating their work goes all the way back to when I started here on Devinatart. The three-colour style is incredibly striking due to high contrast between colours. It's also theoretically simpler to do since you don't have too many layers devoted to colour. In practice, however, this would be my first attempt at it. The flat-tip brush is really unintuitive to me—working more like an unweildy calligraphy pen than what I was normally used to. This is why you can see a lot of malproportioned anatomy here. It's almost like relearning to draw all over again. It does lend itself towards a more impressionist style so I decided to take full advantage of that in some scenes.
More importantly, this was meant to be the style of the main comic. But I just couldn't get it to work at the time.
As mentioned previously, these GiG's will continue to experiment on different styles and will be terribly light in substance. The first GiG was a GIF. The second was an insight from Eve. The third was both the Mask and Eve having the same insight. This one's Evelyn. To follow in sequence, the next will be The Mask. And then Stanley.
But the next comic to come out on this site should be the next Homecoming. To be posted late this week or early next. Thanks for reading! Enjoy!
EDITED: Nov. 8, 2017
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Love the celebration of the transformation in this one. It's very funny to see the differences in Evelyns between these and Homecoming. They're at such different stages in a familiarity with The Mask. It's interesting to imagine the one from homecoming growing into the confident and embracing Evelyn in this. Guess I'll just have to wait and find out 
Can't wait to find out.
Noticed the different shape of Evelyn's Mask. I may just not be familiar with the cartoon but does that have some lore attached to it? Just curious.
This feels a lot more in contrast to the last GiG. The last one seemed to emphasize the love for each other beneath The Mask but this one seems like they're relationship is shaped by their connection with The Mask. It's not a dinner date it's a Mask date. It'd be interesting to see how either of these love birds would react to someone else wearing their Masks.
Love the overtone switch from the dark black with Evelyn and Stanley to the brighter and overt green with their Mask selfs. Your attention to detail is fantastic
Can't wait to find out.Noticed the different shape of Evelyn's Mask. I may just not be familiar with the cartoon but does that have some lore attached to it? Just curious.
This feels a lot more in contrast to the last GiG. The last one seemed to emphasize the love for each other beneath The Mask but this one seems like they're relationship is shaped by their connection with The Mask. It's not a dinner date it's a Mask date. It'd be interesting to see how either of these love birds would react to someone else wearing their Masks.
Love the overtone switch from the dark black with Evelyn and Stanley to the brighter and overt green with their Mask selfs. Your attention to detail is fantastic