Chesca Hause

Making of "All Day"

Added 2021-09-08 19:13:51 +0000 UTC

This happens to me ALL THE TIME. I yearn for freetime and then I waste it all trying to figure out what to do. J will often come home to find me MORE stressed than when he left, because I've driven myself mad looking for the "perfect" thing to do. (Spoiler alert: there isn't one.)

I prefer to squeeze a comic into 2 rows, but it wasn't adequately showing the passage of time here, so I broke panel 3 into 3.

I used this picture as pose reference for panel 1:

The flow at the end was bothering me, so I flipped everything. We follow her face through the story and I preferred it being on the left in panel 6, so you're zooming out of her chaos and then seeing the family coming home. Technically the door opening that way isn't correct to older comics, but I already messed with the door continuity on the Pixie & Brutus comic and no-one complained, so to heck with it! As I was stomping all over the cannon anyway, I decided to make my life easier and remove the windows that run down either side of the front door. Shusssh! Nobody tell anyone! 😜

I was very conscious of the expressions in the last panel. I wanted to make it clear she was mad at herself rather than her family. I also averted their gaze from her, like they'd just burst in and hadn't noticed her yet.

This was the original bonus, which in my opinion is better, but I worried about people taking it the wrong way: