Another thing that I’ve joked about in the comments for a good long while, but could never come up with a natural (or tasteful) way to actually mention in a comic… UNTIL NOW.
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“Cadillac” by The Kinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYx9KMY0bfc I can’t in good conscience say that’s a GOOD car I’ve drawn here, but it’s probably my least sucky one yet.
(Historical Notes: Yeah, if this feels a bit abrupt, that’s because it is. Past Me had unhappy enough with the previous couple of incentives that it just seemed like a better idea to bail out of the series entirely and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Oh man, this is even worse, though a lot of it is more subtle than the obvious problems of the previous page. On the one hand, the meat texture doesn’t obscure the line art QUITE as bad as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Barf. Yeah, if you thought I was being too hard on myself over the previous pages, just LOOK AT THIS HOT MESS. It’s legitimately difficult to even SEE the art here, because the background image showing through is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: …aaaaand here we go. This isn’t even one of the worst examples, but it still finds Past Me reeling from the failure of the previous incentive and using a background texture to hide the fact that I didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, in Past Me’s defense, pages like THIS are why I gave into the urge to let background textures bleed through so much of the art elsewhere in this series. I vividly remember being caught off-guard over how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Alright, this one I like. A lot. The dramatic lighting on this one is some of the best in this whole series, and more importantly, the background texture REALLY works. And that’s the thing about so many of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, not a lot to say about the art itself here… aside from the perspective of the canyon stock image not quite matching up with the drawing, but I’m pretty sure I would have had to cheat that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…









