FaD strip: the breakup
Added 2021-10-10 22:53:31 +0000 UTCi've been wanting to draw this one for a couple of months now. unfortunately, periods of extreme stress are known to make chronic dissociaters dissociate their personality more, and i was going through a lot of new stresses at once -- moving out on my own for the first time, having a friend who felt the irreconcilable need to "fix" my touch and sex aversion and lack of a desire for a relationship with her after her mother passed, the hand injury, my ex-wife telling me that she was finally separating definitively and moving away because she had a not-so-new boyfriend, and my dog being diagnosed with cushing's... it was a lot to be dealing with all in the same go. a lot of it is only starting to stabilize within the last couple of weeks.
my sense of identity will probably take longer to stabilize, with two "parts" that have definitively split, but haven't entirely decided to take on separate roles. negotiating with myself will be slow, kind of like a hostage situation. i referred to the two separate identities here as gray and blue, referring to their colors, while working on this, even though blue responds and identifies with the name gray still.
Comments
I love how you realised the text in this to get across tone and quality of voice. It comes across really well while still being readable. The expressions and body language are also great as always, especially with conservation of detail in some of the panels. I noticed that in addition to the table appearing from the floor, the door before it gets slammed open is very nondescript and more like a placeholder than an actual door, like it's waiting to be used before actually existing
Fetian
2021-10-12 03:51:06 +0000 UTCokay i'm glad it came across that that was a meta joke about having a great idea for like literally the panels to come next in the comic. i really enjoy drawing smears, so it's nice to find an excuse to do them. i think it may be one of the only things setting me apart from my influences in a big way, that i tend to draw action with smears and motion lines instead of like extremely zigzaggy lines to indicate motion
gray Folie
2021-10-11 18:46:47 +0000 UTCraw and intense. i’m sorry about everything that happened and the results, shit sucks extremely hard. this is an absolutely gorgeous composition though and that sequence really IS dope as all fuck lmao. love smears, i never see them used effectively outside of animation and i could just… FEEL it.
Abel Venn
2021-10-11 01:46:35 +0000 UTC
