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So Stricken (PDAP, Chapter Four, Pages 25-28)
🕑 Added 2024-05-30 18:03:01 +0000 UTCLast week, Alexandra rushed to her father's aid, putting herself in great danger. Can she fend off a pirate horde by herself, armed solely with a single burning torch? Well…
This week things get worse!
… is a sentence that — as soon as I wrote it — I realized will be true for the foreseeable future (of Alexandra's story).
One of the challenges with this week's pages was that I wanted to show that The Flagbearer shields Captain Lear using his own body as well as the treasure chest. As a solution I settled on this lighting treatment where, when the bullets are flying, I cast a bright hot light from the direction of the gunfire. Hopefully the shadow tells you, Dear Reader, "the Captain is being shielded from the bullets."
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It is a rough pair of weeks, this one and the next. Not a lot of working time available. This is a shame because I genuinely like working on these pages and I miss them when I am away from them.
Hmm. That seems like a strange thing to say, especially considering the line above about things getting worse and worse for Alexandra who — while admittedly a fictional character — doesn't really deserve for that to be the case.
Oh well! :D Have faith in the narrative arc, my friends!
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Speaking of narrative arcs, Long Time Friend Sarah Airriess just made a fascinating post about a presentation on "Demythologizing Terra Nova." All I can say is that it offers a lot to chew on, mentally-speaking. Empire, ideas of masculinity, class context, the stickiness of a story — a rich palette of colours with which to colour the history.
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Until next week,
I remain,
thack, spang, tack,
TC
Comments
Tony Cliff
Ooh, thank you for the feedback!!
jonsullivan
This is getting epic! Fantastic art too, as always.
Jana Hoffmann
Dramatic! I definitely picked up that the flag bearer was shielding the captain. These pirates are the pinnacle of patience and grace!!!
