Previews For Next Monday's Chapter Of Falling Into Darkness. Very Grey This Week. ::sage Nod::

Previews for next Monday's chapter of Falling into Darkness. Very grey this week. ::sage nod::

First an OC, created to have a slightly more fuller cast of Freedom Fighters, who came with a Very Important Lesson about sequencing my coloring steps. Namely, don't start painting buildings on your background gradient when you haven't done clouds yet, because dang, that was annoying to fix once I realized what I'd done.

As for the other picture...hm, well.

See you Monday with the chapter link!

I didn't just get to meet mine. I lived down the road from one and not a very far drive from the other. My sisters and I would bike to the one's house on the regular to pick daffodils in her yard and have treats that she would save for my siblings, my mom's siblings (some of whom were close enough in age to functionally be my siblings), our other cousins, etc. She sewed aprons and let us help her gather eggs from her chickens and warned us to be careful around the cow fields because of the (mild) electric fence designed to keep the bull from trying to wander. The other great-grandmother crocheted afghans that she gifted us and kept a bowl of ribbon candy for when we'd visit.

My great-grandmothers passed away when I was in my twenties. they got to meet two of my children (as in their great-great grandchildren) as well as one of my nieces. We've got a five-generation photo with each of them.

Hey hey, it's Monday, and that means the next chapter is available! And you may have already seen, this chapter had two illustrations. I would say it's a treat, but there are more chapters coming that also have multiple (not every chapter has more than one, but a handful do).

Either way, enjoy!

Previews for next Monday's chapter of Falling into Darkness. Very grey this week. ::sage nod::

First an OC, created to have a slightly more fuller cast of Freedom Fighters, who came with a Very Important Lesson about sequencing my coloring steps. Namely, don't start painting buildings on your background gradient when you haven't done clouds yet, because dang, that was annoying to fix once I realized what I'd done.

As for the other picture...hm, well.

See you Monday with the chapter link!

Wouldja' look at that? It's a chapter link! Appropriately titled "Answers" because I finally give some (though props to anyone who guessed beforehand).

For anyone curious, this story was initially based on a dream I had way back in high school that stuck with me. More below the cut to keep this from being too long on people's dash.

For anyone who isn't aware, I'm on the older end of the Sonic fandom. I was almost into double digits when the first Sonic game was released. I grew up with the franchise, and my favorite piece of media (aside from Sonic 2, which I got pretty darn good at even without memorizing the cheat codes for level select and Super Sonic) was the Saturday morning cartoon, Sonic the Hedgehog, also known as "SatAM." At some point I had a weird dream that involved the basic premise of the answers in this chapter (I won't go into details because you should really read the chapter first). That idea stuck with me, and after I was introduced to the concept of fanfiction in college, I decided to finally use it in a story. I changed a lot of the surrounding details, but that core premise remained intact, leading to this story here.

Next chapter preview. It's a two-illustration week again!

I'm not entirely sure about the coloring job on the first picture, but I had to tell myself to stop fiddling with it or I'd never finish it. These are supposed to be quick-and-dirty illustrations, after all. Not slow-and-dirty. But hey, playing with some starker shadows to imply a harsh single light above them.

The other picture, by contrast, was much simpler. Just three sections to shade, only two of those to add highlights, and then playing with some overlays and coloring the lineart before quickly painting in a background.

Tune in Monday for the chapter link!

Two preview images for this week!

Both of these turned out pretty decent. The spotty leaf shadows on Knuckles look better than my previous forested images, so I call that a win. And the scribbly shading on the scenery works.

As for the other, I'm glad the shading still shows through because I like how the shadows on Snively turned out. I shaded it normally and then used a gradient fill layer to mostly colorize everything red like "robot vision," so the colors of everything kind of disappeared (except for where I very specifically faded out the gradient). I also had fun with the interlacing lines and messing with the text (it actually says stuff, but I used a symbol font to obfuscate it because it was distracting in readable English).

See you Monday with the chapter link!