Daily Update 6/26/24
Added 2024-06-26 07:34:14 +0000 UTCSpent most of the day re-inking, re-flatting, and re-lighting this page. I'm pretty happy with the improvements. I'll be the first to admit that it isn't perfect. I'm always learning and improving. I'm sure a year from now I'll notice all of the errors I don't notice now.
Here's the before.
and the after
I'm very happy with the changes in perspective, though Toph's enormous rack kind of covers up all the work I did to get the upper torso right... even the little squish of fat as she leans to her left is obscured. Shame.
and as a small bonus, I went through the rest of the pages of this chapter seeing if anything needed some redrawing, and I saw only one other egregious thing.
In the following image I noticed her deltoid was too large and the placement of her clavicle was wrong. Also her traps needed a minor adjustment.
before
After
Now this isn't to say that everything else is perfect, just that nothing else bothers me all that much. From here, I'm going to do basic lighting for every page of the next chapter. From there, I'm not sure how I'm going to approach it. I feel like if I approach it like a factory the quality per page suffers, but approaching it like a factory will result in quicker work.
I've got stuff to post publicly but honestly... I kinda just don't feel like it. Not right now. I've been watching YouTubers and other artists who work constantly on their patreon, but only post stuff publicly when things are completely finished. I know consistent posting is a way to maintain relevancy, but Toph Heavy isn't relevant. I just wanna focus on work and not worry about that stuff.
