coming soon!
Added 2023-09-03 15:08:56 +0000 UTCDear patrons, thank you all for being with me in August and supporting me as always!
I know there haven't been any major updates but... I worked a lot and there will be many rewards for you ( NSFW!) really beautiful and well done :) As you know I don't make quick content while neglecting quality, with Patreon my philosophy is to give your best, take care of the concepts, lines and colors.
This page that is arriving (it's finished, I just sent it to Gialuca) has a panel that represents the house where William was born and raised and if you have read my previous posts you know that it is a place that I have searched for a lot, and I only found the resources in 2018. The furnishings are of Sicilian origin and taste, like the ceramics from Caltagirone, then there are the maps, the flags, the limoncello, and then there will be other important elements in the next few pages.
FILE in HD to download for you! https://pleasurebonbon-next.com/rewards/pbb-next/wip/chapter-1/page-65-wip/
Maps are omnipresent, William is after all a traveller, and every day he saw maps on the walls of his house, something that remained with me from my childhood when as a child I had a poster of Italy framed in my bedroom and my parents every year they chose from there a place to visit during the holidays. My parents never took me abroad, but I visited almost all of Italy, and I remember that there were atlases in the house, and my father had (and studied) maps for travelling. I remember when we stopped the car on the highway and he would open the maps on the closed hood of the car while we stopped and had a snack. So, maps are a very important thing to William, and he had to have them before his eyes to have the incentive and ability to travel. I also had a globe, so there will be one in another area of the house. I also had a telescope in my house, my father made me look at the stars and planets, these are things you had as a child in the 80s, although there were also other more modern entertainments such as TV and radio and some video games... but imagine what children in the 1800s could have to stimulate their imagination and intelligence? Whoever had a telescope at home had wisdom in his hands. And believe me, that telescope was used by both boys and girls, because I was a little girl and I loved those things! I hope you like this page, I know that reading it will take a second, while it took weeks to make it, but imagine overall what this comic will be like page by page! When I create the ebook of the first chapter, it will be truly beautiful, thanks to you too!
To make you understand my madness and how much I love you:
I looked online for maps from the 1800s but I was never satisfied also because of the watermarks.
After a search of days I found a Wikimedia Commons page where a New York antique dealer named Geographicus Rare Antique Maps ( official site https://www.geographicus.com/ ) has uploaded more than 2000 maps that can be freely consulted, downloaded and printed in HD! Unfortunately (and this was my problem, especially for the eyes!) there is no search engine in which to write, for example, "Italy" and you only find maps of Italy... no, they are all mixed up and therefore you have to scroll the thumbnails and guess which one you are looking for! But I hope you enjoy this sharing! Maybe an ancient map will look good on your wall too :) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Geographicus
I needed some wooden panels, oil painted, with late 18th century floral decorations, to decorate the doors. I searched, but couldn't pick up and put a downloaded painting in it because it wasn't the size or composition I wanted.
In the end... I painted the panels myself. It's the second image you can find above :D
I'll tell you about the flags next time, when the page is updated :)
V.
Comments
Thank you very much! I don't think there's always a need to point out how this story was conceived and written over the years through feelings, lived experiences and intimate desires that I really felt, and that there is something of me in every character, from the shyest to the most exuberant, but just a little touch, 90% came from themselves in their personalities! XD And history always has something personal, from my culture and my tastes, from my studies! I don't have to point this out all the time otherwise I'll seem presumptuous but this is Patreon and new readers are always added, perhaps for them it's the first time. Something happened to me today, I was telling a friend (via chat) how lucky I was at the Fiene Art Academy to have a set design professor who taught me how to design my sets! I remember him as a sweet and kind person! And I felt like looking for him, after 23 years (I graduated in scenography in 2000) and I discovered that not only is he still alive, but he has an atelier and still designs beautiful theater sets for work! Not more in Rome. Now he is 74 years old, but I can't find any social media or contacts to be able to contact him and say hello again, I would like to send him the PBB_Next link to show him my comic ahah, and the fruit of his teachings XD LOL... before it's too late! If you want to know who he is, his name is Paolo Bernardi, I'll give you a link even if it's in Italian. I really want to try to contact him next week! I got excited seeing his photos online. I owe him the fact of knowing how to draw (I'm not saying very good but acceptable) the PBB sets! :) https://paolobernardiscenografo.wordpress.com/tag/teatro-regio-di-torino/ And I would like to take this opportunity to "justify" why I almost always do, by default, bkg drawings with central, frontal, mirror perspective. Because I am a qualified set designer, and I always have in my head the theater with its proscenium that I had to draw in frontal perspective for years. Because it is the right way to drawing and propose the scenography of an opera. Which today is a trademark of director Wes Anderson! :)
Vanessa San
2023-09-10 17:52:09 +0000 UTCThank you for everything, both the compliments and the good critique! I am a fanatic of moonlight and I really like letting it enter the house through the windows in a glowy way, it happens in all my pages from the beginning, I can't resist this weakness :D so this time I believe now I exaggerated! LOL XD I'll keep that in mind next time! :D Thank you!
Vanessa San
2023-09-10 17:21:01 +0000 UTCI love the step by step work you show us in your pages, Vanessa. ^o^ I also enjoy hearing the stories behind why certain things are added to a page, and how it was because of certain things in RL that was a big impact for you. :3 And finally I'm always stunned by the small details you add to your comic, Vanessa. OoO They're super nice and I appreciate you showing us the artisanship of your digital pen and what you can draw. X3
Kanbe Namura
2023-09-06 06:10:12 +0000 UTCI adore the soft lighting in the last panel. It adds a sense of coziness and warmth to it, while making it feel extra open and even a little bit lonesome, with a single person standing in it. One critique I have, however... the light shining on the floor, through the windows... you have that coming from two sources. Unless there's two moons, or two suns out there, the light shining on the floor should face the same direction, and if it's coming in directly, the way you have it, one side of the other wouldn't have light coming in at all. Or only the slightest sliver of of light.
Silvador
2023-09-05 15:58:44 +0000 UTCErold, thank you, yes you are right, and thank you for your honest feedback! They are three reproductions of the same decoration, not that it was impossible to replicate such a simple decoration, considering that there are many fakes from past eras. It was common to make reproductions on commission in an age when the camera did not exist, so it is not impossible to make decorative panels in series. Medieval painters often turned to copies of earlier models. In the scriptoria, places where illuminated manuscripts were made, the head of the workshop established the main lines of the composition, imposing ready-made models. In fifteenth-century workshops, students sometimes had to imitate the master's manner. This in order to be able to make copies of his works, which he could sign and recognize, as if he had made them with his own hands! Sigh.. In this sense, some laboratories were transformed into real painting factories to satisfy the demanding tastes of customers. At the end of the 15th century, awareness of artistic individuality and therefore of the non-"ethical correctness" of making copies began to manifest itself. But faithful copies of famous works were always in great demand. Some painters were more copied than others. Do you think that there are currently over sixty ancient copies of the Mona Lisa, and more than forty of Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks. Starting from the 17th century, copying became a genre practiced by the greatest masters, who considered it an exercise in style, a tribute to other masters or a memory. Thus came to us works created by Rubens copying Raphael, by Watteau copying Rubens, by Manet copying Delacroix and by Degas, who was an excellent copyist. So I decided for a simple panel reproduced in series, instead of downloading a free resource, since I decided not to make you wait any longer, this was a compromise, a method that saved me time while still having an original decoration.
Vanessa San
2023-09-05 13:39:06 +0000 UTCOne of the reasons I support you is because of your quality over quantity approach. So you just keep doing what you do :) Oh yeah, I do remember you showing us your resource, from a magazine if I remember correctly. So you're well traveled in your home land. I never traveled much, never found that appealing. However, I do love maps, and for as long as I can remember, I always had a globe in my bedroom too. So when my old globe was way out of date, I relized that it was hard for me to imagen myself without one ... so I got a new one :P With things like Google Earth and such, a physical globe might be redundant, but I still really like spinning the thing from time to time, finding new things about the world. I never had a telescope through. I did see Jupiter one time when my school had a small event and let everyone use the school's telescope to look at the gas giant. Well done on finding the maps! And the floral decor is nice too, but if I'm being honest, considering the setting, they look ... a bit repetitive. I mean, there's three of them that look the same, and I'm not sure if things like that could be mass produced yet. Anyway, well done, Vanessa. Each page is a painting in of itself :)
Erold
2023-09-04 19:12:14 +0000 UTCThe backgrounds look amazing. Thank you for the time, and attention put in making them. Most artist would just put together a simple background because most readers only pay attention to the actions of the characters. It's a great detail me, and the other readers definitely notice and appreciate.
Michael S Marks
2023-09-03 20:32:17 +0000 UTC
