Bk1: Ch2: Pg14
Maeye: My cousins, Pretah and Nori... they are missing!
Maeye: We have to find them!!
1b
Maeye: Pretah!
Maeye: Nori!
Maeye: Where are you?
Arayanna: Maeye, over here please,
2a.
Maeye: What did you find?
Arayanna: Tracks. Many Minox and what appears to be two small humans.
Maeye: That must be Pretah and Nori! And the Minox are chasing them!!
Arayanna: Maybe. but I do not think so. It appears that the Minox are walking. If they were chasing the women then they would be in full charge. Also, none of the Minox tracks are tread upon the women's. It appears that the women are being walked between the beasts.
Maeye: Wait!! When the Minox were chasing me, one of them said "Keep the females alive." Pretah and Nori must have been captured!
2b.
Maeye: Come on! Let's go get 'em!!
3a.
Arayanna: Maeye, please wait.
Maeye: Arayanna, we have to rescue them!
Arayanna: Yes, and we will. But before we go after them we need rest, provisions, clothing and weapons.
Maeye: But you saved me with nothing but Brigielle.
Arayanna: Yes, but that was just one Minox, and I was able to surprise it. I estimate there are at least four of them now. We cannot prevail against those odds.
Maeye: I don't care! I can't leave them in the hands of those monsters. I am going after them!
Arayanna: They have full day head start and their tracks wil be obscured by rough terrain and rain. We cannot hope to track them.
3b.
Arayanna: But there is another way.
Arayanna: If what you have told me is true, what I am about to show you could cost me my life.
Arayanna: But I will trust you if you will trust me.
3c.
Arayanna: Fiet!
Arayanna: With blood and will...
3d.
Arayanna: I summon thee...4
5.
Maeye: Well kiss my sweet ass. You're a summoner?
Arayanna: In a manner of speaking... yes.
“When we get your cousins back safe, I will take you up on that sweet offer, but for now, please allow me to introduce you to Fiet.”
Did Aray summon Fiet from her belly? o_O
She was summoned from the gem in Aray’s belly button piercing. The logistics of Summoners and Summoning will all be explained soon. The short version is spirits or demons are contained in an object – usually crystal, stone, or bone – and then can be summoned forth from that object for a small price of blood and will and power.
Oh yes, can see that now, got confused by the scar/scratch just to her right of her button
For a faerie, and one of Fiets size, those wings look wrong (unless she flaps them as fast a a hummingbird, which would produce nasty wind, they would not do a good job of allowing her to hover)
Still not sure why you had to change her appearance though (if you felt flutterby wings no longer worked, you could have made them moth, can get some very nice looking dark moth wings)
The change in he appearance will make more sense in the next panel.
“By your sweet ass”? Honey, as far as I can tell, your sweet ass is entirely normal, and nothing to swear by, except maybe in the regard that it’s yours. 😀 I kid, I kid, but only somewhat 😉
Meanwhile, I’m personally waiting for her to start swearing by Aray’s sweet ass…and kissing it besides >:D
I have a feeling it’s not the ass she will be kissing this night, other things may be hinted at though. I hope one of those barrels has water so they can get the blood, sweat and tears washed off before they start to cuddle.
Also I get the feeling the storm may not be entirely natural.
Theres a storm a-brewing!
Been waiting to see her inn-adventures (even if it doesn’t go exactely the same as the invotives {still would like to see the first 2 someday})
Check the Galleries. 🙂
How long have those been there? (Thank you :D)
Aray is still nervous/scared about revealing she is a summoner, isn’t she? You portayed that perfectly in the last panel
Thank you! Yes. She is nervous and is a little upset by Maeye’s apparent displeasure.
Mae is displeased? Didn’t seem that way to me: surprised sure, but not displeased (the part about kissing her sweet patootie must be throwing me off)
Ah it seems summoning with you are intelligent creatures rater than magical mindless beasts.Which would mean summoning from other realm or so called space between realms.
It depends on the critter/spirit/demon that is summoned. Some are intelligent, some not so much. The summoning aspect of Prentil is one of my favorite storylines. I will tell all eventually, but i don’t want to give away too much too early. 😀
BTW where does the line form to comply with Aray’s demand?
Aray? Don’t you mean Mae?
Well I guess it proves that the comic does not update enough often for people to remember names. Not that I pressure you or anything since in the years(hopefully) to come the comic quality not how often updated shall be appreciated by new readers. I won t lie though it would be even more appreciated if Prentil would have a few more pages.
I am cranking them out as quickly as I can! 🙂 One of the things that I try very hard to do is to ensure that each page presents a reasonable piece of the story – a mini chapter all in its own, so to speak. I want the reader to come away thinking they got something new and important, not just 4 – 5 more panels that continue from the week before. This often means that my pages tend be longer and more detailed than others, which of course means they take more time.
I have been improving in my techniques (at least I think so), so I am able to do more in less time, but some things still surprise me and slow me down.
For instance, page 15 is full of three person conversations. When I wrote my first draft for this, it never occurred to me that this would pose any difficulty. When I started rendering, I found this was far more difficult than I had imagined it would be. It is important to me that the facial expression and the pose of each character match the words that they are speaking. When you have characters speaking to more than one person at a time, you have to shift their eyes and often their expressions. So you will see in page 15 (the largest page I have made yet) that there are quite a few extra panels that would not have been required if it was just Aray and Maeye. More panels of course means more rendering and more post work, etc etc etc.
Anyway, I am rambling. The short version is, I will get faster as I develop better technique and I hope you all stay with me until that time.
As always, I thank you all for your support and your comments! This little community we are developing is by far my favorite part of producing this comic.
Personally feel you did a great job with Page 15
And thanks for explaining how you do the pages: must be difficult to find a balance between more pages with fewer detail and less pages but more information (but so far, it has been worth it, and of course, doing an archive swim when things get slow is never a bad thing :D)
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