004: Injury Shminjury
August 11, 2022
I injured my drawing hand right after posting the last comic. It was pretty bad. I completely lost the use of my left hand for about six weeks. Surgery, infections, recovery. It was not good.
One of the first things I wanted to do when I was able to draw was to continue this project. It was one of the things that motivated me to get through it, on top of a loving family and a needy puppy.
In that time I managed to come up with the name? I wanted a philosophical pun. There weren’t a lot of contenders. The joke is another good example of how I wanted most comics to run.
I’m getting closer to the colouring style. I found the ‘four-colour’ process was too much work to replicate across four panels. Imagine colouring the same bush sixteen times, then colouring around it another sixteen times. It gets old. I have always been a fan of a two-colour style. It gives you lots of colour options with only two layers (of colour, there’s a lot more layers in my Procreate files…). But which two colours? This comic is a bit of a Halloween Special.