Just binged the whole first series of Mackenzie Crook’s new… I can’t even say what kind of a thing it might be. If you can avoid reading anything about it beforehand, trust me, it’s probably worth a watch. ‘Small Prophets’.
The first UK story that you hit is Man of Iron and it’s so different in tone, art and telling from the ‘I am Megatron, I am a bad guy!’ style of the initial US pages that you could get whiplash.
I also really should have gone colour-against-opposite on each of the side transitions, but if you think I’m going back to correct that now…
Did I choose a sane, easily-accessible area in which to attempt the obligatory checkerboard pattern? No.
But will I at least finally learn from this experience? Also no.
You read the pull request, you close the window, you look at the clock, you wonder if you can wait out the rest of the day without having to be one of its approvers.
Never forget that Unicron once got so irritated with someone that he tore his own leg off.
First ‘contrast’ pass, what do we reckon? Better? Worse? Legally indistinguishable?
I think one of my problems is that I’ve pushed the skin so bright in the highlight (no regrets).
Ohh, we have a canonical spelling.
Two different wheeps! An exotic triple-a graaa!
Two painting sessions in a single day, purely to appease @erikcats ‘s relentless whip-cracking! My knees won’t last. My ‘painting knees’*
I have though, quite literally, turned a corner.
*What?
At some point I’m going to have to actually paint the front of this thing…
I feel you, Optimus.
Ba weep granna weep ninny bong, everybody.
Hasty post-work floor unboxing. It’s… it’s full of stars 🤩
Massive compendium box of 80’s Transformers comics just arrived. Regression to childhood approaching 90%.
Includes the legendary Marvel UK run, natch.
(Pics later when I unbox… you flippin’ nerds)
A few more tippy-taps at lunch and I think we’ve veered into Accidental Hulk territory.
Absurdly small forward steps, but this is now a full-on hobby streak: two consecutive human calendar days of tiny, tentative brush-pokery.
Trying to bring back a little saturation while keeping the contrast by applying yellow and purple glazes.
There’s a faint whine of something being stressed to its limit in the stormy dark.
(Not me…)
(… currently)
It is, of course, essential to choose the mini with the greatest number of back lumps when practicing skin.
Never a great sign when you can scoop the cardboard box from what was just delivered to you with cupped hands.
We have reached the ‘100% vocal fry’ stage of the meeting.