Onward to a new issue!
This page decayed as I continued to work on it. The inks are good; the only one I don’t like is the outline of Rosie’s head in the middle panel. But the colors are shaky. I’m not happy with the backgrounds; they look appropriately muddy for an early spring, but they didn’t really come together. And the shading! I just don’t know if I can keep up the “fuzzy shadows” for outdoor scenes. It makes things murky, and it looks a bit overproduced. The alternative is an almost artificially crisp shadow line, and while that doesn’t look as realistic, it’s good because I can’t hide my anatomy mistakes behind fuzzy shadows.
Clearly drawn from life — typical temperate zone early spring scene, here’s a couple out walking, make that trudging, through freezing polluted mud, trying to keep the dog out of something dead — although it’s usually salt and oil not metaphysical blight and the road kill isn’t usually people. (Except around Innsmouth.)