Happy (belated) International Women’s Day!

Read more about the Internationale. :3

No more easy backgrounds. ;_;
But listening to Cormack McCarthy’s The Road took away the monotony. (Or added to it?)

I hope it’s somewhat clear that the shading on Aeron’s skin isn’t hair, but sunburn and dust (except his beard stubble). I mean, I wish it was hair, but unfortunately he isn’t that hairy. :3

Since this is an odd page, I had to draw out the sequence a bit, so you’ll have to turn the page to see what it is that Aeron is looking at that’s so weird.

So it’s only three panels here, and thus I thought this page was so fast to draw that it should be criminal (I should draw more comics set in sandy deserts :3). And then Photoshop indeed punished me by making it really hard to scan by crashing many times in a row. V`(oo)´V

It was fun to draw that scene from chapter 3 again. I guess my style has developed a bit in the 12 years since then … V`(oo)´V

Sometimes I want to redraw the first few chapters, and other times it totally depresses me to even think of the possibility of doing that. After all, one of my mottos is “there is no going back – only forward!” And the time I have for drawing comics is limited, anyway.

Let’s say that if somebody would pay me enough money to do only that for as long as it takes, then I would redraw the beginning.
I guess I might also do it if I somehow wouldn’t be interested in drawing any of the other stories that are fighting to break out of my head, though that seems a bit unlikely.

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Fun fact: Willie’s sweater is based on an H&M sweater that I coveted back in 1997. It was purple, black and dark blue. At about 250 SEK it was way beyond my clothes budget, and I never caught it on sale, so I let Willie wear it instead.