Today’s guest strip comes courtesy of Jade Griffin, artist of Shards! I like the split-screen effect here. 😀
Jade also drew this drawing of Heather being wistful and thoughtful.
Thanks, Jade!
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.”
Hey dave do you have any pictures of sarnothi architecture? Also i have a few pen sketches as practice to send in.. do I just send it to your email?
My email is fine, sure!
There’s some small examples of Sarnothi buildings during the arc with dinner at Pohl and Sai Fen’s, but they’re drawn in the loose “flashback” style so I’m not sure how helpful they’d be.
In general, Sarnothi architecture is rounded. No corners on the buildings, round doors and windows. Doors are along the outside at all levels, instead of lots of internal hallways.
Yeah I looked through all the old archives and I found more than enough. My one other question was- I can’t seem to find the M/F anatomy sketch anywhere and the selkie cover letter is missing? is there any way you could link it (not sure if it’s on a twitter or tumblr etc)
my main question was about her eyes- the black parts aroud the actual eyeball. Is it concave or at the same level her eye is, is it membranous or just like.. skin? I’m sure all this stuff has been answered before somewhere but I can’t seem to find it. Thanks!
Jade Griffin,
The split screen is well used, and really like the translucent webbing on Selkie’s hands.
Yay! Thanks for noticing! I do know that Amanda is left-handed but I agree with Dave and you can think of it as a mirror version, so that artistically I could show Selkie’s clip and Amanda’s pony tail.
It’s really good. I particularly enjoyed the angle at which you drew the picture. Great work 🙂
Well done Jade!
Ah, if only her thumb weren’t in the way, then we could read that word it blocks…I’m thinking it’s “girl,” but I could be wrong.
It says And, not girl. More what I am curious is if the “my” in the Amanda side with the long front tail is actually part of the word “Mommy” it would make an interesting symbolism with selkie’s dad part. But they again I am so used to Dave putting in hidden stuff I look for extreme meaning on everything.
Nice job, Jade! I LOVE the soccer theme in Heather’s room, especially the soccer stuffed animal! Adorable!
If you read Jade’s comic, you’ll see Velvey (The Velveteen Rabbit) on the top shelf.
It is! I completely missed that the first time, though I did notice that the picture as a whole looked very Shards-esqe.
Kiyaaa, both drawings today are so cute!
im sorry but i am unable to read fancy style so can someone help me decipher what they are writing?
Dear Sa/nta
for Christ/mas
I would like/a pretty
and for my/my
dad please
Never noticed before, but that is a weird way to hold a pencil. Especially when you’re to the level of cursive. The fine motor control comes from your index finger and thumb, generally, so those should be the ones directing the movement….