It's not safe! (PDAP Chapter Four, Pages 7-10)

Four brand-new colour pages from PRACTICAL DEFENCE AGAINST PIRACY!

In which we meet what I guess we'll call "Chekhov's Leopard." The anchor around its master's body provides the leverage required to restrain such a powerful animal.

The mist and lighting effects are coming into their own. I thought that A) obscuring everything with mist and B) having strong, consistent directional lighting would make pages easier and quicker to paint, but it turns out that is, uhh, not the case.

Aannd I remember having a conversation with Reader Heather about horse droppings and how they are so frequently elided in period fiction. There were a lot of horses, so there must necessarily have been a lot of horse poop, right? I promised that I would not forget the horse poop, and I'm happy to make good.

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I managed to get a LOT of pages coloured this week! My partner took some vacation days to get some springtime gardening done and, as a side benefit, let me focus on some work for a few extra days. Join me in being grateful for this!

Kiddo will be in preschool until mid-June, so my plan is to take advantage of that to finish Chapter Four colours as soon as possible, hopefully by the start of June. Then he'll be free, and it'll be the summer months, so I'll focus on thumbnailing Chapter Five (as well as other writing goals, like retrospectives for DD3 and the other, smaller projects). Writing and thumbnailing activities benefit from having extra mental elbow room, so this should time out nicely. Then I'll be pencilling and inking by the time Kiddo's back in preschool in the fall!

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Until next week,
I remain,
not a pirate,

TC