The Scholar and the Seawal: Page 3
Story time! My favorite time, of course. I love a good story–so much so that I wrote a story about one. As I’ve mentioned in previous pages, I wanted to explore segments of lutren society that we haven’t really explored before, and this myth fits the bill in spades.
I was pretty sure that I’d written this myth down in one of my many supplemental documents, but after exhaustive exploration I realized that I must have only been thinking of doing that very hard, and thusly never actually wrote anything. This story is also a chance to remedy that.
You’ll notice that the stylized book illustration portions at the bottom half of the page evoke memories of Rachel’s own technique for felis illustrations, though I do love the little personal touches that Jayelle made to really show that this is something that was done freehand by Isa herself–the scribbly ‘anger lines’ around the treewalker. I love these kinds of touches, personally.
I also love how Jayelle decided to make Nora idly reach out and touch the ocean spray–and of course Isa’s expression in panel 3 so perfectly encapsulates her character. I’m happy with how this page turned out, is what I mean!
For guest art this week, a touching picture rendered by RM Fung, who has sent in some other wonderful guest pieces in the past.
In this piece, we see Quinlan saying one last goodbye to his grandfather, Caldus, before he passes away. This came from a real place for RM, and it made the image all that more powerful for me. No matter what Quinlan may have felt about his grandfather, and no matter what Caldus thought of Quinlan, when the end draws near, none of that matters.
Thank you, RM, for sharing this piece with us. I know it couldn’t have been easy to render it, but I feel it truly does capture the complex emotions of such an event.
I too am happy with how this page turned out, and exceedingly so.
One thing I’ve been wondering though, and perhaps it’s been brought up in previous Comments sections and I’ve merely missed it, but I noticed “TSATS” is credited to all three of you. Is Rachel making contributions to this side-comic as well? If so, I’d be interested to know what the division of labor is, like having two such fine artists working in tandem.
A good and fine page with a good and fine contented cat face.
Nora knows that sometimes flattery will get you nowhere but sometimes it will get you a story.
It also feels like some kind of fictional universal constant has been shaken to the core. Your cartoon scholar somehow ended up with gold hoop earrings while your cartoon sailor didn’t.
You know, those earrings are so subtly done, I hadn’t even noticed them until you brought them up. Then again, it was so easy to get distracted by Quintessential Cat Face.
Hehe, it looks like Nora reached out and touched a galaxy, that water is so sparkly!
I also really love the simplistic illustrations used to tell the myths, it gives a peek into some other aspects of the culture ^-^
Story time! Nora looks like an exited little girl about to be put to sleep with an awesome tale. I’m looking forward to it myself!