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familial stranger, page 20

Added 2018-07-17 04:13:29 +0000 UTC

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this page frustrated me. the shading on sugar to make it clear that she was in a dark room at night sounded simple in theory... was much more time-consuming in practice.
i'll have to experiment with using palettes in a different way for night/dark scenes... maybe making the lines a light color.

i also broke a few "rules" that i usually have for myself on this page.
one was "don't let speech bubbles intersect with panel borders." this confuses the sense of time continuity when reading a comic... here, though, i felt it worked well with jumping into the middle of a conversation, and showing both characters while one is talking on the phone.

i also considered whether lola's hotel room should be a bit messy or not, but i thought it would be cuter for the setting to imply she literally called sugar to talk as soon as she was "home." i thought it paired well with sugar wrapped in a blanket clinging to a pillow (which turned into That Body Pillow Mentioned In Drop-Out) with a cup of coffee to stay awake to talk to lola, because lola is 3 hours behind currently.