Selected work #5

Dimensions: about 9 x 13 inches

Materials:

Multimedia paper, 2H pencil, black ink pen, alcohol markers, white ink pen, rendered & text added on Krita.

Ideas:​

• ​ This was sort of a self-test to see if I could handle doing one of the sensitive PTSD parts of the story. Writing it is one thing; drawing it is another -- one has to spend more time with it.

• This isn't by far the most heart-wrenching (or bloody) part, but I thought it would be a good place to start.

• Since the ocean is associated with "the betrayal", I thought I'd have the flashbacks look like a torrent of frothing water.

Processes

​ The white ink pen is my worst enemy. It has only one thickness and if I use it to fix a black ink error, it makes the colored marker ink lighter in that spot when I get to that stage. Grrrrr. Hence, the Krita rendering. Chains take a long time to draw, too. And why. Did I make. My protagonist. SO HARD TO DRAW?!!! The white-on-black face details, specifically. And the thing with the oni with the preset emotions that make any expression other than the face pattern emotions more difficult.

Artists Referenced

• ​Jeff Smith's Bone for formatting stuffs

• ​Mostly sustained investigation pieces were referenced.