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[PSD files] Chapter 6.40-42

These ones are all a rinse and repeat of the last couple pages, but again the red layer does a lot to add to these pages. I enjoy working in the limited palette, but that does mean that I have to work a little harder to get proper shadows and highlights to create shapes. 

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Chapter 6.42

:) I loved drawing Derik getting punched in the face.

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Chapter 6.47

big rocks go boom

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Chapter 6.46

A bit of violence on this page, but it's fine, Rocky's here to save the day.

Things have been busy on my end! I've been getting things ready for TCAF and I've had a lot of personal stuff come up. But pages are still trucking along and I'm starting to prep for chapter 7. Tomorrow I'll have another chapter 6 page for you, though!

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[nsfw] tinder selfie

If you ask to see a little more, maybe you'll be surprised to find you'll be rewarded.

all characters are portrayed as over 18 years of age

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Chapter 6.41

ugh, i love that little gremlin man.

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Chapter 6.40

The team's got a plan, which is good because one of them almost got their arm amputated.

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[PSD files] Chapter 6.37-39

Page 6.37 has a couple of extraneous special effects layers that add to the glows and background effects. The red overlay layer is still there, but it's not as prominent as some of the other ones.

Page 6.38 has some really fun glow effects, but to get that specific electricity look I had to try a few different colors. Try turning either of the top two electricity layers off to see how much those are adding. Also, I played a lot with the different colors that made up those two layers and...

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Chapter 6.39

good thing they brought a healer, amirite?

Anyway, Aidan doesn't have great bedside manner, but Nikki is even worse at sympathy so I guess it's better that Aidan does the healing.

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Chapter 6.45

The girls are fighting!!

This page was a fun experiment in lighting, but I think I had the most fun trying to get the action sequence to work. 

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[PSD files] Chapter 6.34-36

Shoutout to the big heavy-hitter in these pages: the red highlight layer. That is doing the biggest work in these pages. There's another layer that's also adding to the eyes, which is only meant to go on the eye layers.

You may notice that if you isolate the eye layer, it's actually on more than just the beast eyes. Just a lil fun fact.

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Chapter 6.44

the marshmallow fluff cave scene continues

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[nsfw] more

I started up a little nsfw twitter account to share some previews to a wider audience and shared this doodle there to kick it off. I think I gotta do some more nsfw comics like this.

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[nsfw] Spa Day Selfie

The last of the spa day drawings, one more selfie from Vivianne. :)

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Chapter 6.38

Toivo has a lot of different emotions that he goes through on this page...

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Chapter 6.37

I initially finished this post on Toivo's birthday! It was February 20th. Happy birthday Toivo, hope you like your gift! It's pain.

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[PSD files] Chapter 6.31-33

I decided to make a little banner for these PSD posts, just to make them a little easier to differentiate between regular comic page posts.

This group of PSD files also includes a double page spread, AND the vertical scroll that I made for the website and for Tapas/Webtoons. I figured it might be fun to see how I broke apart the spread on 32-33 into a vertical version. It's really just a bunch of panels that I broke apart and stacked on top of each other.

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Chapter 6.43

The beginning of chapter 5 is where younger Aidan shows up, if you need a refresher.

No big comments about this page other than I had a LOT of fun with Derik's faces. He's one of my favorite characters to draw, haha.

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[nsfw] Spa Day Selfies

In the immediate aftermath of sending a stupid photo, he notices that there's one particular piece poking out between the folds of the robe. Embarrassing, but he might as well own up to it, and sends a second selfie showing off.

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Chapter 6.42

:) I loved drawing Derik getting punched in the face.

I don't have much to say about this page. It was pretty straightforward as a continuation of the last one, with the weird wobbly panel borders. I almost left the gutters white, but ended up changing them at the last minute like those other pages I posted  yesterday.

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Chapter 6.36-41 - Updated

One thing I was doing in the earlier pages in this scene was making the gutters black. I had done it when they entered this area, but I guess I forgot to do it past Derik's entrance. I tested the black borders on a couple pages and felt like it made the scene stronger, so I decided to go through the effort to update all of the other pages to have black gutters. I figured I should update the patreon pages first and notify y'all so you have some idea of why the next page has black gutters.

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Chapter 6.36

FIGHT TIME FIGHT TIME

I'm very excited for the next page :)

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Chapter 6.35

here's our good buddy Derik again! yay! we love to hang out with him.

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Chapter 6.41

ugh, i love that little gremlin man.

I tried something new with the panel borders, clearly. I wanted the fog to feel oppressive, and the page does feel pretty claustrophobic, so hopefully it's working.

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Chapter 6.40

The team's got a plan, which is good because one of them almost got their arm amputated.

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Chapter 6.34

I'm just having a lot of fun with the colors on these pages.

Also, in case you're a little fuzzy on the details, the back half of Chapter 4 is where Derik revived someone from the dead using Enfyn's heart.

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[nsfw] hold on tight

This is actually based off of a "your character here" drawing, which i might post eventually so you too can also have your oc's take a ride on Toivo.

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Chapter 6.32-33

The missing people that Toivo's referring to are mentioned here: https://www.ingress-comic.com/comic/chapter-6-08/ 

Second, what Nikki is referring to about "what happened before at Aidan's temple" is this story that Aidan told from pages 5.08 until 5.11, where Derik was transforming the clerics into Beasts.
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Chapter 6.39

good thing they brought a healer, amirite?

Anyway, Aidan doesn't have great bedside manner, but Nikki is even worse at sympathy so I guess it's better that Aidan does the healing.

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[nsfw] spa day

hope you enjoy a selfie from Vivianne's spa day. :)

(technically not completely nsfw but there's some nice booby so... enjoy)

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