That's it, now you've been introduced to four of the nine person crew on Chandra. That guy there in the bottom left is sort of our focus in the story. I think that's what I was trying to subconsciously point to with the prominence in the foreground. He's a bit generic looking at the moment, but it's important to me that he have red hair. There aren't enough red-haired heroes out there.
You may have noticed this pervading texture all over the page. That was a last minute addition and I'm pretty pleased with the look. It ties everything together in a way that wasn't there before. It's simply a picture of concrete run through a few filters in Photochop and applied in a transparent overlay. I found that before the texture everything had too much of a flat feeling to it.
Now that I think about it, this book has a really weird look to it. It wasn't something planned, it just kind of naturally grew out of the process I was using when working on it. I made a lot of random decisions based on necessity in the moment. Mid-way through, when I began to color things I started pushing it in a sort-of cartoon direction, thinking that the panels were beginning to look like stills from some unproduced sci-fi animation.
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