FaD strip: epilogue
Added 2021-03-01 06:31:48 +0000 UTCthis strip is one i had the urge to draw a couple of days ago. the freedom to be spontaneous with my art means a lot to me, and unfortunately i still haven't had the energy and leniency to do this right away, but it was nice to have a sunday where i could whip it out before the urge completely died.
several factors of this comic are a reference to a much older comic from 2015 about a poignant time in my life where i was trying on glasses, and tried on a pair of men's glasses, and instantly felt a connection to how i looked in them, and the fact that they were called gray when they didn't look gray at all.
you can see things like the circular mirror, tipping the glasses to see a more gender-euphoric image than expected, the short hair (that i mainly happened to have at both times), and the fact that you don't see the full face until the glasses are on are all similarities.
originally i was going to finalize the comic in greyscale, but after looking up the old one for reference, i figured it would be pretty easy to make the new strip blue as well, with slightly more vibrant and varied shades of blue.
tangentially, wow, it's shocking how comfortable i used to be with messy artwork. the act of making comics itself was still a novelty. i don't even know if i could replicate the jittery chaos of how i used to line.
"it's just who i am" is meant to be a line that means both i'm not someone who actually reacts strongly to things frequently, and that it isn't worth something reacting to because i'm just looking at who i am in the mirror.
