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Astor knows when something is up.

I originally intended to not shade Astor in, because I’ve been trying to find ways to make wraith abilities appear more removed from the surrounding environment and that was an idea I came up with. But I got distracted by anime and forgot my intent. When I finally realized what I had done, I couldn’t bring myself to delete the work. It’s a little hard to rationalize deleting 10-15 minutes worth of work when shading looks better than no shading.

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In addition to better backgrounds, I’m also trying to keep the light source consistent across scenes. I’ve really only paid attention to the light source when it is directly drawn into the scene and I’d like to try and not do that anymore.

This semester has been really stressful so far but if today goes according to plan, the biggest source of that stress will be eliminated. It’s a weird feeling for me. Back in May I was really excited to get an officer position in the club I’m in but now I’m just glad to be planning my resignation. It also helps that one of the other officers is right there with me. We both have the same problems with what is going on behind the scenes and with how we are being treated. When a conversation consists of “I’m glad you said something first” and “me too” repeatedly you know you are caught in a sick system. Here’s to hoping all goes according to plan.

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I purposely worked on the cover image while sleep deprived. I wanted a certain level of not-right-ness that I wouldn’t be able to pull off while fully awake. Sadly the images still look too good for what I was trying to achieve (next time I want poorly drawn, I’m using my left hand). The cover image is part of a larger wanted poster that will figure prominently in this chapter.

The cover and accompanying wanted poster is inspired by the poorly drawn image of Lloyd in Tales of Symphonia from when he was placed on a wanted poster. I have a lot of fond memories from playing Tales of Symphonia. My sister and I stayed up a ridiculously long time by eating nothing but chocolate chips to try and reach the elves. There are parts of that game that are not meant to be played while severely sleep deprived. We had the hardest time trying to figure out really basic puzzles.

This chapter was almost called intentional side effects but Fresh Start won out for subtle reasons. No actions are consequence free in the EC-verse but some actions take longer than others to catch up with everyone. See you Monday for the first page of the chapter!

Hope you enjoy!

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And that’s the end of the chapter. Thanks for reading!

There’s going to be a two week break where I post sketches and things before the start of the next chapter. I was planning to see how many pages I could get done during the between chapter break before making this announcement but updates are going to go back down to once a week with the next chapter. I’m putting a ton of effort into the backgrounds and that’s slowing down progress. I’m hoping to elevate the backgrounds to the same level as the character art and that means more work. But I hope the exchange of update speed for nice backgrounds is worth it! 🙂

Chapter 15 begins August 31!

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