Goodnight, Goldie
on November 29, 2021 at 8:44 pmUPDATE: Hi everyone!! Sorry about the unintended hiatus. A number of personal emergencies in late November/early December have left me burnt out and with little time and energy for art, so I haven’t been able to give this comic the attention and polish I think it deserves. Unfortunately, I ran out of time before going on a trip to visit family, and thus the hiatus will continue for a little longer. I wanted to do a Lightfest update, but had a very busy holiday and decided my time would be best spent working on the next page. Things will be back to normal very soon!
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Painting scenes like this is so cathartic after spending so much of the early comic in interior spaces. I really owe a lot of this page in particular to Sea of Thieves, which filled my head with cool rocky islands. Our island here is inspired somewhat by Shipwreck Bay, minus the actual shipwrecks. But does it have a name? Surely no one lives here. We’ll just have to find out!
Again, can’t stress enough how much I love the colors and coloring itself here.
You’re an absolute master at telling stories without words, and these past two pages are proof of that!
The color work here is LOVELY.
Goldgills looks very much at peace here. ^^
Is his sword made of some sort of special material and/or enchanted? Because swimming through salt water would do one hell of a number on an actual steel sword.
I mean, if we’re just hand-waving it because it’s not important to the story, I can dig it, but that feels like the sort of world-building tidbit that an author, such as yourself, might have actually thought about but not had any real way to bring it up in the comic without it sounded weird and out of place.
Hey there! To be honest, I never really planned on explaining it, haha. But I do think about stuff like this! I’m honestly less afraid for the sword and more for its (presumably leather, or something like it) scabbard/belt, right? But I figure salamandrians tend to get their magical friends to enchant items for them to make them more durable in water! In this case, it’s one of the services Bones provides for his crew. Both the sword and the scabbard are protected, along with some of the other things Goldgills is carrying with him. The enchantment has to be renewed every now and then, but it lasts for a while.
Nice! I like hearing little tidbits like that. They’re fun peeks into some of the more…not really behind the scenes, but like “nitty gritty” cogs and gears of the world. Thank you for answering!