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"Tell me, young Apeo. Do you want to know how the rulers of each planet are actually chosen?"

-The Gatekeeper

Yeah this was that "huge project" I was talking about in my previous deviation. I guess it's sort of a poster/teaser/cover for Lunia's story in evomagi?

I figured I'd change things up with a portrait-oriented piece for once. Tall compositions differ from wider ones in that they take a little longer for you to process visually, so the viewer takes them in more slowly. And at roughly 30 hours spread out over five days, it wasn't exactly quick to make either! But honestly, most of the time went into deciding how all the different light sources would interact. There are a total of four light sources here: ambient light from the sky that's also reflected from the ground, the planet's rings, Lunia's armor, and the candle.

So does this mean I've made progress on actually writing the comic? Sadly, no. But to be honest, what's mainly holding me back is deciding on what style to draw everything in. It certainly wouldn't be as detailed as this deviation, but at the same time it won't be as simple as this other comic I made . (On second thought, don't click that. It's pretty cringey.) Style evolution is something that naturally happens over any serialized work of art, but I want to avoid it as much as possible and improve as much as I can before I start the first page so that the look stays fairly consistent from start to finish. Obviously I won't be able to avoid any style evolution, and it's better than de-evolution (lol) but I won't improve by spitting out one deviation every year. Sooooooo, the forecast is that I can begin after I get my graduate degree, which, if nothing disastrous happens, should be in two years. The good news is that should give me a lot of time for actual development, which is good for you guys because that means the story hopefully won't be poorly-edited, cliché-ridden, plot-hole-filled, and heaven forbid, boring.

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"Tell me, young Apeo. Do you want to know how the rulers of each planet are actually chosen?"

-The Gatekeeper

Yeah this was that "huge project" I was talking about in my previous deviation. I guess it's sort of a poster/teaser/cover for Lunia's story in evomagi?

I figured I'd change things up with a portrait-oriented piece for once. Tall compositions differ from wider ones in that they take a little longer for you to process visually, so the viewer takes them in more slowly. And at roughly 30 hours spread out over five days, it wasn't exactly quick to make either! But honestly, most of the time went into deciding how all the different light sources would interact. There are a total of four light sources here: ambient light from the sky that's also reflected from the ground, the planet's rings, Lunia's armor, and the candle.

So does this mean I've made progress on actually writing the comic? Sadly, no. But to be honest, what's mainly holding me back is deciding on what style to draw everything in. It certainly wouldn't be as detailed as this deviation, but at the same time it won't be as simple as this other comic I made . (On second thought, don't click that. It's pretty cringey.) Style evolution is something that naturally happens over any serialized work of art, but I want to avoid it as much as possible and improve as much as I can before I start the first page so that the look stays fairly consistent from start to finish. Obviously I won't be able to avoid any style evolution, and it's better than de-evolution (lol) but I won't improve by spitting out one deviation every year. Sooooooo, the forecast is that I can begin after I get my graduate degree, which, if nothing disastrous happens, should be in two years. The good news is that should give me a lot of time for actual development, which is good for you guys because that means the story hopefully won't be poorly-edited, cliché-ridden, plot-hole-filled, and heaven forbid, boring.