Another quick one.
Hello all, I apologise profusely for this, yet another brief blog post, but I have about a dozen things to do and I have to get up in five hours’ time. I promise a proper text update on Friday!
In the meantime, enjoy today’s page! Introducing, Queen Kayleigh, Marquess of Wasps. Doesn’t she look a proper bitch, or what?
M.
That’s fantastic dialogue 🙂
Thank you. You are absolved from being pelted with further whining 😛
M.
I’m just curious–what’s going on with their cheeks in the first panel? They’re both in profile with lips visible, but it kind of looks like their mouths are visible as well. I noticed the same thing with Roderick’s face in the first frame of the previous page, but assumed it was just a hair effect that wasn’t looking right to my eye.
Took me a while to realise what you meant, but no, I get what you’re asking. It’s a style choice I made a while back: I don’t like breaking the outline for lips, i.e. bringing the teeth right up to the edge of the profile like they would be in real-life. I actually illustrate profiles like that throughout Elf Blood, but I think recently they’re more noticeable because for some reason I’ve drawn the extension of the lip-lines further in than usual.
Can I use my ‘I’m tired’ card to get out of this one? 😛
I definitely modelled most of my lips on Shirow, he’s one of my biggest idols as far as artistic style (and story style, for that matter) goes. I can’t remember if I based my profile lips off his work, though. Lemme check my copy of GITS when I get home! But I’ll be more conscious of how far I’m drawing the mid-lip lines from now on.
Cheers!
M.
Well, I just flipped through my copy of GITS, and though I can definitely say that my characters’ normal closed lips (straight line centre with ends angled down) are definitely derived from Shirow, but the profile view with the closed lips is not. In which case, I’m not entirely sure where I got it from! Like I said, it’s how I’ve been illustrating profiles throughout Elf Blood, and I think the reason that it’s more obvious now is because of the extended lip line into the face; It’s normally a fair amount shorter.
Looks like the mystery of where exactly I picked that up will continue!
M.
Sigh, rookies. Didn’t they teach this in combat maneuvers 101? Don’t. Flirt. On. Covert. Ops. Missions. The enemy is bound to find you while you are staring in each other’s eyes!