First comic of winter break! I don’t have grades yet, but I feel pretty confident about this semester. Thanks again for your understanding, everyone, when I had to shelve the comic for a bit the last couple weeks.
I’ll probably announce this again on Thursday, but I will be doing a bonus Sketch Saturday this week with a Christmas drawing. 😀
I also have a piece of fan-art to share. Lekadema sent me this two WEEKS ago after I posted the sketch of Selkie’s mom, and I am afraid I got a bit slack-y about sharing it.
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Sorry for the delay in posting this Lekadema. Thanks again!
My original exit line for Andi was going to be "You know Selkie's eventually leave for the ocean, right?" The whole scene was originally a lot angrier and more bitter on both sides, but after actually sitting down to work on it, it became more... "world crashing around you" -y, and I feel that original line is a bit too snipe-y for what Andi's feeling right now.
Huh I wondered why every time I typed in Selkie in Google the first thing to come up was a Wikipedia. :/ Guess I should have looked at it xD
Uh oh. Here comes Papa Bear Todd.
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Andi, let’s hope Todd didn’t just hear you call his daughter an animal.
I suspect that’s not what she intended, but…
honestly, she needs to either grow up and/or leave them alone. It feels like she’s clinging to Todd out of habit, and refusal to accept change,
more than anything else.
I don’t think she was calling her an animal as much as trying to be cute with her name. Anyways, it seems like she’s begining to accept that she and Todd are through. Or at least she’s going to find a way for the both of them to change so they might get back together in a more stable relationship. She should have at least offered couple’s counseling or something similar, but Todd seems dead set to call it off. Eitherway, its nice to see a break-up with equal blame in fiction. Too many examples out there where one is saintified and the other is demonized.
I don’t think she meant it as an insult since that is what the species is actually called.
Heh. Maybe not. Minor, and I shouldn’t get hung up on details…I liked this strip, particularly the facial expressions. Definitely a case of a picture
being worth a thousand words!
Todd might want to reassess the Andi decision. She’s the first person to immediately recognize the origin of Selkie’s name.
Relationships founded on mythology don’t tend to go anywhere.
Well there’s proof that Andi is not ready for a relationship with him again for all that feel sympathetic towards her. If she was ready, she’d be up on her feet and insisting on helping out and letting him know under no uncertain circumstances that she was there for even smaller crisis like this.
Instead she just packs it up and backs down. Andi is NOT ready for a relationship with a single father. Things like this happen, maybe not stolen clothing in school, but falling down and spraining ankles, ice cream falling off the cone, papercuts. If she can’t fight this fight, she won’t fight the bigger fights.
Actually, she’s being *mature* here. There is some sort of crisis here, she isn’t part of the “family unit” as it were, and she knows she’s on the outside. *Much* better to profess support and leave then to force herself into a delicate situation.
Do not care for Andi–though i think her character design is adorable. While she seems sad, she strikes me as immature and mentally off. I am getting the vibe we should feel bad for her and will see personal growth, but is it wrong I hope that Todd finds a different lady friend? Known (and related to too many ppl like that).
I don’t think that recognizing that it would be a bad idea to bring a child into a grown-up conflict is a sign of unworthiness. The reason she’s not getting involved is because Todd pointed out that it might not be good for Selkie to meet her under the current circumstances. I think that backing off and letting him take care of his kid at a time like this was a very mature decision.
st offf, i kinda like the allmost nonexisting background…it gives a background that still puts focus on the characters 🙂
and
2nd I afgree with Somebody that it seems like the mature thing to do..i’d do the same, even though I’d hate every darn second of it…I’d want to stay and help out, but I would respekt HIS choice of me not meeting HIS kid under those circumstances…
storywise, this introduces a lot of questions… I like it. I could theory about for awhile with just this, but my fingers are already sore, so I’ll sit it out today.
and the art seems a notch better today, too. related?
Not intentionally. I just thought I’d try drawing the backgrounds without vector tools again. I dunno if I like it honestly, I’m better at people than objects.
FWIW the art in this comic is always better when you don’t use vector tools, and as I’m sure you’re aware, the only way to get better at drawing something is to draw it over and over.
I still don’t like Andi, but asking for Selkie’s name is the first smart thing I’ve seen her do. That, and not insisting on meeting her in what’s probably VERY embarrassing situation for Selkie.
Still enjoying the strip….
I just read through your whole comic,
the story is pretty cute, and while your art has improve greatly, your anatomy needs a lot of work. Not to be offensive, just offering constructive criticism.
I’m very thick skinned about constructive criticism, don’t worry. 😀 Welcome to the comic!
(I hear you about the anatomy thing, every so often I go back to a finished comic and wonder why I was completely blind to something.)
Oh, my. I can’t stop wondering who’s the JERK who did this.
The Jerk who stole the shirt? Well, we didn’t see it happen, but it seems pretty obvious….
I’m still up in the air about Andi; I think we need to see more of her in differing circumstances. It’s clear that she has her blind spots, but Todd has his own.
He should not have put off confronting her that long, for one. And I speak as a Master-Class procrastinator.
As someone who was bullied as a kid and did not receive much adult support, I feel for Todd and Selkie in this arc. Though it’s clear Selkie has had this kind of thing happen before, it leaves a mark on you: it cost me at least one potential friend.
Hi! I love your comic so much!! Selkie is super cute I love her ‘s’ at the end of words.
I live in Shetland where the myth of the selkies are very popular. My team in sports day are called Selkies! I hope Selkie bites that person for stealing her clothes!
FWIW, I don’t think Andi is all that mature… just because it’s the school year and she’s wearing that. Granted it’s probably early October, so not too cold yet, but that outfit in this setting just makes me distrust her as a parent-like-figure.
On re-read…it’s August… so Andi gets a little more leeway, but not much.
My original design for Andi actually included a leather jacket to go with her boots, but then I remembered I set this part in late August.
I think one thing about it is that in this case, Andi is meeting with someone she cares for and wants to be back in a relationship with, which may mean she is wearing clothes that appeal to Todd. Also, with Andi being a tattoo artist, that is very likely work clothing for her, so the school year has nothing to do with it.