Episode 19 : Pollution

✶ Official Link for better resolution + all translations, sources, etc :

http://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article383/episode-19-pollution

(Note: Krita/hi-res sources files, 400MB, will be uploaded tonight to the website. the 'HD button' will work in a little hour because hi-res files are still transferring as I type this. )

Episode 19 is an episode about pollution, and also about the fighting of Pepper against the tradition. It's an answer to a previous episode the episode 12 'Autumn Clearout' (with the black hole of potions) and also an answer to the bad behavior of the witches of Chaosah "to bury everything".

I wanted to take an unusual point-of-view on this topic: about the embarassing 'history log' the pollution can leave in the layer of sediment soil. Also, in this episode, it's the first time Pepper really 'wins' against the three witches of Chaosah. But she doesn't win because of her effort themself (to embarass the witches) but because of the new situation. 

This episode production was longer than usual because many topics: 

- Happy ones as my wedding with Alicja and the honeymoon trip <3

- 'Meh' ones, as the polemic in France about the printed version of Pepper&Carrot...

- 'Bonus' one, because the production in august of a very long free video tutorial on Youtube.

- Technical one: because I wanted to open the storyboard to collaborative work on our IRC channel, and that was a good move.

That was maybe to much for me ^__^ , and it made me dive in a 'over-busy' mode. Sorry for all unreplied emails, comments...etc...  I'll work on it.

A propos technique: This episode was painted fully 'digital' with Krita. For inking, I used the preset 'Pencil 2B' (from my "8.1" brushkit) at size 7px, the style was made to match the episode 12; colorful with a focus on the precision of drawing and inking, and not so much on painting this time. It was longer, out of my comfort zone but I learned a lot.

Many thanks to all who participated to this episode, and all the patrons for funding Pepper&Carrot! Also, welcome to a new publisher sponsor : Popcom (Germany) who also prepare a printed version.   :-)