Selkie joins the animated hair club.
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When noodling over this scene I had the idea in my head to have Anthony discuss some sort of color-based communication system they had worked out with Felix. Something like directing him to do different tricks with different colors of light, maybe even communicate Felix's emotive states. Ultimately I axed it because I didn't want to sidetrack things too much, plus I think it felt a bit too far towards fantasy-fiction.
Been thinking about moving to thinner lines, finally figured I'd see how it looks. Been looking at drawings on deviant art and liking the thinner outline look.
Looked up a lot of strange and interesting trivia while reading up on octopi for this arc. Here's one: apparently octopis don't survive mating. Males die shortly afterward and females die shortly after the eggs hatch.
I wrote the security guard in then out then in then out then in again. I'd like to avoid clutter and drag in the arc vis-a-vis extra character interactions, but I just can't see security NOT responding to a shouting kid.
Pohl strikes me as the type whose smartphone is filled with small casual games that he's played once or twice then forgotten about.
Fwoosh. Also, just feel like sharing the music I inked this strip to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMl8CraRBk0
Scripted sound effects for Panel 6, but I think it's more effective without.
I don't think I drew Selkie bouncing gleefully enough in Panel 5.
Linkbacks: Gregori and Hamud staring. Dr. Bunny-Me. Also, yesterday was the comic’s 5th birthday! Selkie (the story) is now FIVE! As is annual tradition, here’s a birthday sketch:
I make no claims towards the scientific or taxonomic accuracy of these fish. ;)
A reader comment by Dawn ("Selkie needs to know that an octopus isn’t a fishy, but a cephalopod.") inspired the cephalopod bit. The desk guy just kept staring and saying "uuuhhhhh" in my original draft. Thanks, Dawn!
