You can tell this is a fantasy series because Jocelyn hasn’t been fired for his terrible worth ethic.
Because all of my characters look like girls, you might wonder how anyone can tell on sight what gender anyone is, but for the most part that’s a failure on my part as an artist. Thanatos is meant to look like a girl though, so it’s all the more hilarious to me that Jocelyn immediately pegs him as a guy.
Sometimes I regret his naming choice, but he’s been Thanatos so long I can’t really think of him as anything else. (There’s a few other characters I feel this way about, actually…) I do kinda sorta have a plot based workaround for Thana’s name, but it’s not really relevant to anything so I don’t know whether to eventually add it in or if it would just unnecessarily make things complicated.
Remiel looks so annoyed dealing with Thanatos despite the fact that he’s the one being a busybody to begin with.
Remiel and Qi’nya’s face probably got the most edits during the recoloring process. Remiel frequently looked so unimpressed with everything in the original art.
When I originally thought up Paradise, I wanted it to be black and white, manga style. But certain design elements were difficult to get across with just black, white and greyscale… So I added a limited color at first. For Chapter 2, I started to go full color, I’m not really sure why, probably to stand out more… Then I decided I should redo the older pages to match, and since I was doing it anyway I might as well fix some of the more egregiously bad art…
I like the colored version, it really adds something, but at the same time it takes so much more time… Maybe I shouldn’t have… I’m not even sure I’ll ever finish the story in my lifetime lol. But I’m stubborn and I really like the way it looks, so I’m sticking with it. Anyway I’ll put comparison pics of the old art below.
