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I have no idea why I kept putting random splits in the panels of Pandora, other than I guess it just visually looked cool? It doesn’t make sense from a design perspective, but you know what, it DOES look cooler this way.
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The primary change her was stopping Pandora’s breasts from floating away in two different directions… 👀 Pandora’s body type is supposed to be on the slightly chubbier side, but I’m awful at representing it. Just use your imagination to overwrite her image and make her a shortstack. Much like Qi’nya’s nose, I’ll try to be more courageous in drawing it in the future, but for now I just wanted to finish coloring the existing art.
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Some of you might remember Qi’nya’s name used to be Qi’nah. Apparently this is a Jewish word, though I had picked it because I just liked the sound. I do that a lot. Anyway, after I found out, I started thinking that a demon who loves money and has a hooked nose probably should not use a Jewish word for their name. I swear I didn’t mean to a commit a hate crime. I might be being over thinking things, but out of and abundance of caution and respect I gave him a new name that was similar enough but which hopefully doesn’t have any cultural links. It really gave me a new appreciation for sensitivity readers and cultural consultants though.
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I kept wavering over Skye’s hair color for awhile. Her original hair color was meant to be more orange (like a carrot!), but I made it a pinky red with a light gradient at first. Then I started thinking that maybe a cherry red like Qi’nya’s would look nicer, but then again maybe it would blend in too much. In the end I let my friend decide, and cherry red became the default, with the previous hair color justified as being in the Atra’novalis.
Below is the different hair color samples… I’m still not sure if it was for the best, the orange is really appealing with the green… But cherry red is easiest to use with my usual color schemes at least.
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Remi’s a little chibi and off-model in the last panel, but it’s cute and I like it so I’m keeping it anyway.
I always struggle with whether I should apply the BL tag to Paradise. Like, there’s literally guys kissing in the first chapter, surely that is BL? But the romance isn’t really the focus of the story at all (even the reason for the kiss is not really grounded in romance or attraction, though that’ll probably be explained more later), so it kinda feels like it might disappoint people who read for that reason, and so I usually end up leaving it off, even though it might attract more views.
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In the early days of internet webcomics, I feel like getting to page 50 and other such numbers might be worth a celebration or omake illustration. Sometimes, I miss those days… There was a level of sincerity and lack of self-awareness that I don’t think a lot of webcomics, or really even people, have anymore. The concept of “cringe” was non-existent. Sometimes it led to some wildly questionable stories, but there was a high level of creativity and experimentation. Sometimes I feel the internet has become too sanitized and self-aware these days. You can’t really be your most creative when you’re too self-conscious or feel like you need to self-censor to appeal to website terms of services and the like.
Anyway, this is just ramblings akin to “back in MY day” so feel free to ignore me.
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Continuing on with more questionable story decisions that I find bewildering in retrospect – who just sits down on the sofa with a bleeding wound on their shoulder? Why wouldn’t you go to the bathroom to clean it up before hand? And ripping your clothes for a bandage? Gross and unsanitary. Surely Remi has a first aid kit? It’s a trope, but usually it happens when you aren’t safe and at home so I have a hard time excusing it. That being said, Thanatos doesn’t really need to worry about silly mortal concerns like infections so maybe it slipped his mind.
I hope whoever is reading this doesn’t get put off by my nitpicking my own story… It’s probably not going to be the last time I wonder what I was thinking in retrospect. Hopefully the artist insight makes up for any bad vibes.
