Rawlin art from Madgic #3
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lb_leeMori: I'm working on Madgic #3 again! I was stuck cooling my heels for months, waiting for my brain, and now I have the final six penciled comics pages I need to get it done. It's all Rawlin stuff, and we don't have a lot of art of him here, so I'm uploading some! (Sorry, y'all only get the non-spoilery stuff.)
People who only know Rawlin by reputation tend to imagine him as some hideous troll of a man, but no, he's really classically handsome... as long as he doesn't move or emote. Once he does, everyone runs screaming. Madgic #3 covers the brief window before that time, when he was still himself and not psychologically hideous.
Rawlin's size makes him a royal pain to fit into panels. He's curled in a ball on our healthymultiplicity.com header bar because it was the only way to make him fit! He's so gigantic, we can't even do the David Hasslehoff tricks of having him lean on things or do the Captain Morgan knee-bend to make him fit better. You have to completely frame the paneling around him, and the challenge is conveying through comics that it is HE who is BIG, not everyone else who is tiny.
I've chosen to deal with it by having Rawlin conspicuously strain the boundaries of every panel he is. Everything should feel just a little too close-up, a little too tight around him. I want it to be uncomfortable, because being around him these days is uncomfortable.
Another thing I've tried to do is show how Rawlin has changed, and how his behavior can make him seem like a decent, overly-large man... or absolutely terrifying once the wheels start coming off his bus. I tried to show the inner conflict in his earlier stages of not-okayness as his compromised self and his original self kinda fight back and forth without him realizing he's doing it... at first. I wanted to be able to follow, by the panel, which Rawlin was running the face levers at any given time, and I wanted Rawlin's realization to be visible.
I am stupid proud of that last face. That there is the face of a man who has just realized how irreparably he has fucked himself. I'm still not happy with the "No" one.
Original ink lines. Even when Rawlin was getting god-eaten, for a little while we could still work well together. This was probably the last time we ever did.
Finished version, with brush pen fills.
People who only know Rawlin by reputation tend to imagine him as some hideous troll of a man, but no, he's really classically handsome... as long as he doesn't move or emote. Once he does, everyone runs screaming. Madgic #3 covers the brief window before that time, when he was still himself and not psychologically hideous.
Rawlin's size makes him a royal pain to fit into panels. He's curled in a ball on our healthymultiplicity.com header bar because it was the only way to make him fit! He's so gigantic, we can't even do the David Hasslehoff tricks of having him lean on things or do the Captain Morgan knee-bend to make him fit better. You have to completely frame the paneling around him, and the challenge is conveying through comics that it is HE who is BIG, not everyone else who is tiny.
I've chosen to deal with it by having Rawlin conspicuously strain the boundaries of every panel he is. Everything should feel just a little too close-up, a little too tight around him. I want it to be uncomfortable, because being around him these days is uncomfortable.
Another thing I've tried to do is show how Rawlin has changed, and how his behavior can make him seem like a decent, overly-large man... or absolutely terrifying once the wheels start coming off his bus. I tried to show the inner conflict in his earlier stages of not-okayness as his compromised self and his original self kinda fight back and forth without him realizing he's doing it... at first. I wanted to be able to follow, by the panel, which Rawlin was running the face levers at any given time, and I wanted Rawlin's realization to be visible.
I am stupid proud of that last face. That there is the face of a man who has just realized how irreparably he has fucked himself. I'm still not happy with the "No" one.
Original ink lines. Even when Rawlin was getting god-eaten, for a little while we could still work well together. This was probably the last time we ever did.
Finished version, with brush pen fills.
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Date: 2023-08-08 12:44 am (UTC)Fun fact: he also wears very few clothes. His "suit" is mostly thick fur. It's really dense, enough so that I just realized he'd probably be uncomfortable wearing much more. But that's kind of weird to explain, so for Madgic I just draw him solid black, and probably people just assume it's a bodysuit and not 80% fur.
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Date: 2023-08-08 01:28 am (UTC)[Janusz]
Yeah that's what I assumed too lol. It makes sense that somebody with a lot of fur would not be comfortable wearing much clothes
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Date: 2023-08-08 04:04 pm (UTC)In the original romance novel, there's all this crap about the fur's texture being all velvety, but Rawlin's not cool enough, I guess. He just feels kinda like felt.
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Date: 2023-08-08 05:13 pm (UTC)[Hikaru]
Man if I was covered in thick fur I'd do whatever it takes to stay cool, even if it means running around half naked lol. Especially in this weather!
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Date: 2023-08-10 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-08-10 04:36 pm (UTC)[Hikaru]
Man, summer heat is the worst!!!
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Date: 2023-08-10 04:38 pm (UTC)[Janusz]
This reminds me. I feel like I asked a question like this before, but does the headspace world have seasons? If not, does it resemble a particular season?
I think I asked you guys before if it had a day/night cycle but I don't really remember the answer.
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Date: 2023-08-11 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-08-11 03:35 pm (UTC)[Janusz]
That is really interesting, thanks for answering
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Date: 2023-08-30 04:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-08-30 04:44 pm (UTC)[Janusz]
That is really interesting, thanks for sharing!
Hopefully you find more about how the weather works there.