Because it’s a panel that takes up half the page, even though it’s merely interior scene setting I felt the need to put extra effort into it. Plus, it shows of Jocelyn’s personality. That being said, it took over a day to draw that single panel alone, and I suffered greatly. Even worse, the next panel while much more simple still took me ages to get right, because as previously mentioned I struggle with scale. If you want to know a secret, I put Jocelyn’s room together in The Sims 4 and used that as my reference.

I had a hard time deciding between which colors to go. I think the blue-green one looks more harmonic, but I really liked the depth the purple tint one added so I ended up going with that instead. In the end, I don’t think there’s a right answer so I’ll never be sure in my decision…

Drawing backgrounds always leaves me with this sense of bewilderment at how I can interact with objects every day and not understand their scale or how the even the simplest pieces like wood joints connect together. I put a lot of effort into the background in the first panel, and it mostly ended up covered up by the chapter title and number, go figure. Plus, the direction of the light on this page keeps changing, so let’s just say it’s causes by a passing cloud.

I also regret Remi’s hand in that first panel, since looks like he only had 3 fingers. The other one is supposed to be behind the mug, but when you add the gap between the ring and middle finger it just looks his middle finger was cut off lol