Do you post your comic anywhere that isn't Instagram? I checked your links, but I don't have an account there and can't view anything there to follow, so it's hard to know if it's something I'd want to support without having access to reading anything in the first place.

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This man

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I came close to ruining this, but I brought it back from the brink with gouache and color pencils 👌 My issue was that simply rendering it felt not "enough," I wanted to experiment more and have something more abstracted, but most of that just made a mess (which was mostly fixable).

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Namely, I tried adding lots of gouache with a brayer, which was an interesting effect, but wrong for this illustration. I'll save that idea for another piece, I think. (I used water-based gouache so I was able to scrub most of it off afterwards and take the image back to its watercolor base layer).

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I still feel like it's missing something. 🤔 I'm finding lately I want both soft edges and crisp silhouettes, a lush soft fullness but also strong negative space, to obliterate the sketch beneath layers of flowing color but also have a clean read. A difficult balance, and this doesn't achieve it.

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