I listened to four entire Sleater-Kinney albums (Dig Me Out, One Beat, The Woods, and No Cities to Love) just while doing the outlines. The colors are devoted to Smashing Pumpkins (Adore).
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For the longest time I had trouble pegging down Amanda's interests. She hasn't had a lot of on-screen room that wasn't an antagonist role. I started thinking about her anger, her sadness, and the way she seems like she constantly feels like her insides are boiling. I started thinking "maybe Amanda has some stuff to say. Maybe she has stories to share." So I gave her a notebook.
Initial sketches had a mistake where Amanda was facing the front of the bus while giving the "eyes on you" gesture, which is all kinds of wrong compared to Panel 2.
The emotive pigtails are a "visual cue for the readers that characters in-universe don't outright notice" thing. If they were, she'd have a bad poker HEAD.