Distant glances

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((Here's my half of an art trade with *The-Chaos-Theory in which he drew my love squids: [link] ))

Behold everyone, this is my first comic I've ever made entirely on the tablet, the line art, coloring, everything was done on the tablet.. this comic does not exist in physical form!.. pretty neat huh?

I've really loved getting into business with Nex-Kel, she's one of my least developed characters and it's very refreshing being able to work with a Vortian character for a while.. art wise.. drawing the legs and horns.. it's a nice change from drawing Irkens all the time! Plus she's always fun to draw, incredibly cute and sweet.. which is always fun and rewarding to draw.

I find that I'm much more open to drawing detailed backgrounds using the tablet, being because I can draw in photoshop and put the backgrounds on a separate layer and not have to worry about messing anything up.. which is why I hardly drew backgrounds in my hand-drawn comics. I think this is my first time ever really drawing what the Vort Station #9 hallways and such look like.

I know people probably have all their own ideas of what the station looked like but hey.. this is mine. XD I always pictured metal hallways bathed in white, very clean, very cold temperature-wise.. and of cause very sanitary. In fact I pictured this so strongly it carried over to Owen and Plink themselves.. I always pictured them as very clean, neat, cold-skinned, and...virgin? XD

Well it looks like Nexy here has for some reason or another taken notice of Skif, Chaos' character, who is in fact her secret admirer who sent her the flowers and letter. Is it female intuition? Is it some kind of spiritual connection that drew her eyes to his? You decide!

I have to admit, I haven't studied what Skif's military position is. However I assume he's at the station as some sort of temporary security force or possibly there to pick up a new shipment of weapons.

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I'm getting to the point with this tablet usage where I actually kind of prefer it to drawing on paper now. I mean think about it, if you screw up you can erase completely with no consequence.. there's no touch-up process, you use up no physical material.. it's really nice. On the positive side for you guys, its very easy to color my drawings now making it easy to show you guys my characters in such in their full vibrant colorful forms! I'd really be interested in hearing your opinions on my tablet drawings because they seem to be met with mixed reviews.. would you be interested in me making the next OAPR comic in this form? Let me know ok?

Nex-Kel (c) ME
Skif (c)
Cameo? (c) maybe?