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FaD strip: a little off the top
🕑 Added 2019-12-24 21:32:35 +0000 UTCgave myself a haircut recently... or maybe not so recently by now.
i was a little ambivalent about this strip, but once i thought about how the mirror should be showing a reflection closer to reality than of these 2 i could NOT stop thinking about it.
i give myself haircuts. they look nice to me, but i was never a big fan of how weird and fluffy hair looks after going to a salon... after refeeding and gaining some substantial weight my hair also became significantly curlier, kind of like merging into one single mega-curl if i leave it alone, and i'm not sure how i'd feel about a hair stylist being able to treat it well. it's easier to do at home when most of your head is shaved, though.
weirdly, i still don't draw my hair curlier because... it's pain and makes me look like a jigglypuff if i try to simplify it.
anyway, that's all fluff. only some minor lines were cut from this; "you like it way shorter than me"; "you like it more symmetrical anyway"; "you're like an orphaned kitten that never learned to groom"; etc.
the colors are just 2 tones of gray tinted green and blue. my wife thought the color choices were to indicate a more relaxed tone, but i just chose them because i wasn't feeling too great physically that day after a lot of nightmares and consequent oversleeping.
the detached hands, no arm style is in full swing in this one because honestly if i had to draw the arms in it, most of the figures would be incomprehensible.
Comments
bramblepaws
i keep coming back to re-read this, just because it's so sweet with such nice extra touches. the mirror thing is Very fun (especially wrt whose expression the reflection is mirroring), it's impressively easy to track what's going on even with the simplified shapes/figures, and the interaction between you both is so sweet.... & the fact that Dupe keeps rubbing to get that Good Feeling is just very touching
Talonwhisker
The difference between whats shown in the mirror and what's happening between gray and dupe is really interesting. The expressions, where the hands are placed, it makes it really...fun's not quite the right word, but fun to compare the two.
