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The Contingency Plan
Just in time for his demise, I present Erik’s entry in the cast page. He was only with us a short time, but longer than I had thought at first.
The original for this page is smudgy as all get out. I order tabloid size card stock from Staples and have them cut it down to legal size to draw on. There are other, probably better options available, but for whatever reason, this is how I started doing it, so I can’t change it now.
What this means is, there’s a good side to draw on, and a bad side, a smudgy side, and a slightly less smudgy size. I prefer to draw on the slightly less smudgy size, but when I printed out strips to draw on this week, guess what, smudgy side. It’s a gamble every time, I can’t feel the difference, I never know until the pencils start to get all smudgy.
Were I an undying “flesh golem” the villagers would have been dispatched too fast for Vaagen to intervene. Good thing I’m not an undying flesh golem, I guess.
On a sidenote, it’s always better to work on “legal” format. Keeps you on the right side o’d’law, y’now.
On a side-side note the smudge doesn’t show too much, but I feel you (not THAT way, silly!). The smudgy side is very good for stump effects though. Or so I’m led to think.
… but you don’t like to work the stump much, as I gather. The frame on the first panel may have benefitted from some stumping. But hey, it’s good as it is.
I think Erik wanted to enjoy the moment, and take his sweet time with it, and that procrastination did him in, in the end.
I assume by ‘stump’ you mean the pencil? I don’t like the smudgy, I don’t like the smudgy on my hands, which spreads the smudgy everywhere else. But yeah, that first panel could have used some more work. Maybe a definable light-source or ten.
By stump I mean the smudging tool made of paper. But as I said, it’s quite good as it is anyway.
I have one of those! Never used it, might break it out, see what I can do with it. And thanks!