THIS PAGE IS SOOO GOOD IM ABOUT TO LOSE I,i honestly think it might be one of my favorites lol
for some reason kims Stance on panel 3 is really cute to me lol, also the fact sugars hanging back 4 her. ALSO KIMS... EVERYTHING ON PANEL 7..it reminds me of that gif of the content aware scaled black cat you know the one
also love how lou's weight looks in the next like, 3 panels after that (also "one last FUCK YOU huh")
i ALSO love the shot of Literally Everyone at the table and kims faces in the last 2 panels, especially that second to late one.. ultimate >:C
AND AS USUAL the colors are soo good. another thing last thing i promise and i know this is like, an obvious yeah of course thing but i love the like..familiarity of the patients. the staff change a lot (theres even a new one on this page) but the patients have been a pretty much constant the whole time. its Nice
not really relevant to the story, but a security guard who's been seen escorting her and kim before. you can tell this without remembering him by the ID badge and dark blue scrubs.
man when you have a long inpatient stay and like the three ppl u bonded with are let out and ur with strangers again hits different .... but I mean when I was released last time I was literally doing a happy dance so it’s bittersweet
I get the feeling that maybe Ms. Whittaker has to stay a little while longer, like overnight, because this hospital seems to have a knack for losing papers. But maybe that is just wishful thinking, because she is one of my favorite characters.
if i can speak from experience--yeah! whatever time they estimate for you to get out is gonna be like 3 days longer at least.
i'm also kind of expecting Lou to respond that she's homeless, as that's pretty common in psych wards.
will spoil it in advance-- she's not homeless. i did want to confirm that's a true phenom in general, though. in the original script for fresh meat, one of the main cast members was a homeless character, discharged on the second day of kim's stay.
in my experience, they get discharged fairly quickly because when you're homeless you rarely have health insurance, and it was not profitable to keep them there.
in the case of this character, i decided to remove her during the rewrites because it was simply not enough time to adequately build her character. whittacker embodies what her personality was like in the original squad, though.
oh was this viscera? i was wondering if she was going to be in the comic but i'm glad lou is here. she is a little grumpy but she seems more like she is tired and doesn't like being told what to do than actually being mean. i think miss whittackeris my favorite member of the crew \ (•◡•) / also. nice.
yeah, that was her. the only characters remaining from that cast are sugar and kim, because that felt most reasonable, i guess. it's a small world, but not that small!
yeah she is a soft pink, although you're not the only one who's interpreted her as tan...
all characters are genetically altered humans in this story, and most of them aren't "pure" 1 species. this is generally why characters also don't refer to their own species a lot if at all. for characters like kim and lupe, they have some kind of DNA from other animals that affect the pigments that color their fur. usually these chemicals are from bird DNA.
oh wow, it's super cool that you put so much thought into this. i can totally see it now, but i read her palette as relatively "natural linsang" this whole time just because your use of colour theory is always so good!
the pink is often kind of neutralized by the tone of her markings and shading but it really just brings out the effect of the type of lighting in here
(coincidentally i just now went back to an earlier page that literally pointed out that she's pink, somehow i missed that i guess!)
also, I really like the contrast between these deep purples in the hall that look kind of sleepy and almost comfortable when compared to the sterile light in the room at the end. The sudden shift makes things feel more tense when everything is out in this kinda light.
but seriously seeing you work on this and then getting to see the finished project is so cool..this is a great page and i love how you show kim and sugars relationship in cute ways like the hand on her shoulder
hi, thanks for the comments. i was going to ignore the hand-on-shoulder interpretation here because i generally don't like correcting readers' interpretations unless i feel like they're overtly harmful.
i think you both are referring to panels 5/6(?) so i went ahead and removed the tip of kim's tail in those panels to avoid confusion about it.
The streeeeeetch of Kim's neck in that one panel, and the "Be nice!" "Be QUIET" contrast that kind of emphasises what seems to be the patients' only choice (or, well, only acceptable-to-the-staff choice) in this place...
im a huge fan of your "simple" style, the one used in the first four pages! it almost reminds me of nintendo miis, with the circle hands that are sometimes disconnected from the body. anyway it's just really nice and something you uniquely pull of very well!
related to things about your art i love, i'm extremely impressed by your ability to stick to palettes and play around with lighting and colors so much while still keeping your characters completely and always recognizable. for example the orange-red character with the dark gray face on the left of the 2nd panel- the colors picked for that scene are far from the orange-red seen on page 68 but it's still most definitely that same color, just effected by lighting. its pulled off super well!! it's one of my favorite things about your art. anyway tysm for your time im excited to see how this comic progresses im a huge fan!
this page is so pretty...i'm sure i've commented this on another page, i can't remember lsfkdjlds but i love how between panels 8 and 9 the nurse sort of "unblurs" into focus...except there's no blur to begin with but the effect is instead done by emboldening the colors in the next panel. i think that's REALLY cool, it's amazing how much you can do with just pixel lines and colors without having to use any blur or extras at all
