More stuff (my titles are pretty much useless, aren't they?)

I've decided to scale back my output. I won't try to push for a page a day, but I will go for at least two panels a day. The quantity suffers but the quality might be raised since I'm doing less in one sitting.

The nature of Maletilla, with its gray inks, tells me to ink as soon as I finish the entire panel itself since it'll be a pain to discern what is inked what what is just a line of graphite. Noodler's Lexington gray has a reputation for its closeness to the appearance of graphite itself. Mix that with my messy pencil work and you have a recipe for confusion. Of course this means I'll be hamstrung in terms of speed since I'm used to drawing the panels in graphite and inking it a good while later after I'm done with all the other pages. Black ink standing out from the sea of gray really contributes to that, y'know.

Realistically, I CAN pencil and ink a single page in one day, buuuut I have a certain sickness. It's called laziness. That and I don't have an economic incentive to really push myself to finish it. There's that abstract incentive to push myself to making better art buuuuut pride and the compliments of the few people that would see the final output isn't the most convincing thing to make me go further than what I can for now. Maybe it'll be different if I'm getting paid. I don't know. At least I'm trying. With that said, here are the latest outputs that I've pushed out of my metaphorical loins for Maletilla.

I was still fatigued from drawing all that crazy perspective crap from the other day when I was drawing this. I had to fake it just to get myself to finish this. It may or may not be too obvious, but I had to replace panels three and four, with four being replaced twice. I might go back to this later on when it's all done and replace them again with better art.

Saving the third panel for last since it's one of the most complicated shots in the entire comic. It's also the fourth panel in the actual script since I combined two and three into one panel. I might just crap the first two panels of this page altogether and slap the last three panels into another piece.

Testing out the overall composition of the panels with perspective. I wanted to go two-point with it but it's at the very edge of the page in the final piece but I don't know how to get past that. Not yet anyway. Also it's on a block so it's not easy to rip off unless I feel like ripping it off. I don't right now, honestly.

Have some art for my other project. You, whoever is reading this lonely little blog, have seen some other concept art in the last post. It's a little alt. history thing where them Nazers won WW2 and they live in a giant enclosed bubble. Lots of drama and scifi crap. Drawing Nazers in alt. history scenarios is always fun. Man in the High Castle, Dead Snow, big market.

I tried to me maximalist here. I just can't do it. It's also the proper version of the guy I was drawing the other day. Got back with my collaborator and she drew me the way she imagined him. Clearly, he isn't supposed to look like his 17th century namesake.

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