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Complex page layout progress
🕑 Added 2022-09-19 03:44:37 +0000 UTCThis page was made in several sessions over about a month. I just finished it up now so I might end up tweaking a few things later (always save your layer files!) if I'm unhappy with them, but overall I'm calling it done!! I was having trouble getting Beat and Brad downstairs without a lot of panels, so I opted for this larger layout. I'm so glad I stuck to it!
1 - General sketch, different colors for different areas/depths to help the lines make sense to me. Blue - upstairs, previous area everyone was just in. Green - Foreground, laundry room and garage. Originally was gonna have a few figures in it. I later changed this (too much, possibly too distracting from the rest of the page.) Orange - Midground, Beat and Brad walking down the basement stairs. Pink - doorway to where the two are heading. I wanted bright pink/purple light coming out of this door so I made the sketch extra-bright to keep the focus in mind.
The panel below was set aside for an establishing shot for the downstairs room.
I have another page open to the side for a reference of the outside of the house so I could set up windows / walls correctly.
2 - Some lineart and color. I went into this without much of a plan. Usually when it comes to making large scenes with a lot of things I've never drawn or tried drawing, I just go for it and slop around until it looks okay. Looking in my layers from here on out , you can tell I'm not very organized, especially in the final screenshot.
3 - Main page finished minus a little extra rendering / effects. All the lighting and colors are in place, along with the shadows. I left the bottom panel aside as its own separate beast. Compared to the previous screenshot the layers are complete chaos. Usually when I'm coloring on this level I have to stick to 1-2 nightly sessions in order to not lose track of what each layer is for. This process is very hasty.
4 - Fully-rendered bottom panel, adding several other layers. I kept this panel in its own folder set on sai so I wouldn't accidentally screw up any of the layers from the page above. Very fast and loose here!! This scene is going to be extremely brief, and this lighting will never be repeated after the next few pages, so I opted for something a little more exciting than monochrome purple (which is what I originally intended). Kicko disco ball along with some LEDs for some fun, why not?
5 - The (probably) finished page.
I don't typically keep track of how long these pages take me, especially odd ones out like this, but I'd estimate the total time spent on this would be about 15-18 hours. Could be more though! We may never know u_u but it did take a long time. Worth it? I think so! I love making big weird pages like this.
