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Outclassed 2 - Page 20 (WIP & PSD)

Added 2025-05-17 15:23:34 +0000 UTC

Since I was on page 20, my working folder had piled up about two dozen thumbnails for this project and I noticed the colors were a little repetitive (since most of the comic is set within the same roughly 6 square meter chunk of a living room) so I figured I could render Walter's inner thoughts in a more vibrant palette to shake it up a little.

Something I didn't think about until I got to the coloring was that Suarez -> Horacio -> Alfonso is the most sensible arrangement for this page, so the gradient on the background would go through a more natural red -> purple -> blue order. I guess I had their table seating in mind when doing the sketch, so the poses were already done, and trying to rearrange them to see if this would fit left a lot of negative space (notice how Horacio's raised arms fit into the upper edge of the page really well and moving him to the middle would cover up half of Alfonso's ass, while Alfonso's silhouette would leave half the corner empty). I'm not too mad about this looking a little awkward because the end page does look good IMO but I do think about this sort of thing a lot.