yellowhellion

ch 02 pg 34 sketch & thumbs

Here we have another page that went through a whole number of edits, even right up to the very last minute!

The first picture is the first thumbnail. I had written Min using her explosive to ...

ch 02 pg 33 sketch & thumbs

The most important factor of this page was Alexander's grimace, so I wanted to make sure I nailed that down, and I think it turned out great! Drawing stairs is always intimidating, but I actually h...

Sky Sea Saga 1st Anniversary

It's been one year since I started posting Sky Sea Saga! Time really flies!

Making this comic has been incredibly rewarding, I find I'm always excited to be working on it. Thank you to everyo...

ch 02 pg 32 sketch & thumbs

The hardest part of this page was always going to be the skeleton gang looming over Alexander. I think it turned out decent! You may notice that the thumbs for this page included the stab reaction ...

ch 02 pg 31 sketch & thumbs

This one was fun! The first panel looks a bit chaotic in the sketch since I kept iterating trying to land on the best pose I could. In the thumbs I had planned another panel between the two, but in...

ch 02 pg 30 sketch & thumbs

The pose in the last panel was so specific I had to take photo reference to understand how it worked and honestly I think it worked out pretty well! I now understand the utility of taking your own ...

ch 02 pg 29 sketch & thumbs

A fun fact here, these past couple pages were given a bit of a last-minute makeover. The last image featured in this set is the original thumbnail for the page, but when I got to this page proper i...

ch 02 pg 28 sketch & thumbs

This is another instance in which I actually quite enjoyed drawing the backgrounds! I guess it helps that they're pretty simple all things considered, but it was fun establishing a space and puttin...

ch 02 pg 27 sketch & thumbs

The sword action starts here! The most obvious change from the thumbs to the final sketch mainly just came from me actually figuring out the space they're in. Backgrounds can be rewarding!

ch 02 pg 26 sketch & thumbs

This one was pretty straightforward, with only a couple common sense edits made from the thumb to the sketch. It's common sense that Min would notice something toward the "camera" as opposed to off...

ch 02 pg 25 sketch & thumbs

This is another instance where I let myself get a lil looser with the panel layout than what I had on the thumbs and every time I've done that I've been very glad lol. Also I tried to make the figu...

ch 02 pg 24 sketch & thumbs

Perspective grid, you were my salvation in my time of need, without you this page would have been impossible 🙏

The final effect for this page wasn't actually TOO hard to pull off, it just ...

ch 02 pg 23 sketch & thumbs

This whole section of the comic really made me think about lighting in a way I hadn't before! Not gonna say I'm an expert at it or anything, but I think putting the thought in really pays off!

ch 02 pg 22 sketch & thumbs

One of the most important things I learned from this page is that keeping scale in mind is really important lmao!! You can see in the second panel that I wanted the mushroom to be the focal point o...

ch 02 pg 21 sketch & thumbs

I actually had a fun time with the backgrounds in this page! I needed to change the flow of the page a bit from the thumbs to fit the script better, I'm not sure how it was playing out in my head w...

ch 02 pg 20 sketch & thumbs

I've been looking forward to this one for a while! This setting gave me the opportunity to play with color and lighting in a way I'd never really had to do before, and it was so cool to see the res...

ch 02 pg 19 sketch & thumbs

This page is ALL about those backgrounds! Sometimes backgrounds are a bit of a pain, but in this page I was really excited to draw them! Had a lot of fun with it! If you treat the environment as a ...

ch 02 pg 18 sketch & thumbs

The age old question, why waste three panels when the effect can be better communicated in one?? I also did some last minute changes to the look of the ruins, you can see how they look in this week...

ch 02 pg 17 sketch & thumbs

Sorry that the sketch isn't very exciting this time around lol, but if anything I hope this illustrates that I am at least somewhat capable of working smarter not harder! Being able to copy/paste t...

ch 02 pg 16 sketch & thumbs

What a fun page!! I think this page really hinges on the first panel, and I really wanted to put the effort into making it as good as possible, and I think it paid off! 😇

ch 02 pg 15 sketches & thumbs

I want you all to rest assured that I'm gonna find ways to keep drawing Maeve in the comic lol, she's such a joy

ch 02 pg 14 sketch & thumbs

This one was fun to work on! But challenging in some ways, a lot of this page was dependent on the backgrounds so I had to nail those down as best I could.

ch 02 pg 13 sketch & thumbs

This page was the first time I got to deploy my favorite trick, and that trick is simply: Birds! 👏 For! 👏 Scale! 👏 Keep an eye out for me using this trick in the future, I'm sure it's gonn...

ch 02 pg 12 sketch & thumbs

This page was a late addition. When I was reading through the Chapter 2 thumbnails, I felt like I needed to establish some character and motivation in regards to Min so we can better understand WHY...

ch 02 pg 11 sketch & thumbs

Having lil illustrations in the dialogue balloons is just fun lmao, we like to have fun! I'm not too pleased with the first three panels, I feel like there would probably be a better way to handle ...

ch 02 pg 10 sketch & thumbs

This was a fun page to draw. 😇 Pretty straightforward too! Came together pretty much exactly how I expected!

ch 02 pg 09 sketch & thumbs

You can always tell the parts I've had the most trouble with by the density of the layers of the sketches lmao

Trying to portray motion is always a fun challenge, and it's one I ought to get ...

ch 02 pg 08 sketch & thumbs

The thing about this page was that the panel layout had an extremely last-minute edit made to it! As you can see here, the first panel was planned to be the widest one, but the more I sat with it, ...

ch 01 pg 07 sketch & thumbs

Sometimes you nail a key expression in the thumbnail and then the sketches are used to preserve as much of that original essence as you possibly can. This page is another example of that.

pg 06 sketch & thumbs

I decided to rehaul the third panel from the thumbnails to the final sketch, since I had the feeling that seeing the windup is more exciting than seeing the payoff of Alexander stabbing the absolut...