Selkie

Oh man, I had a busy busy weekend. My cousin got married this weekend! Congrats, Korie and Adam!

I’d also like to name drop something, if I may. My aunt is working on a start-up business designing and selling non-piercing belly jewelry. She has items designed for all sizes of bellies, including pregnancy stages. Her website is Belly Bling Boutique. Give it a look-see!

And lastly, I wanna share a concept sketch for the centaur forms that I almost went with:

I decided to go for a more real-life horse for the bottom half because I wanted the centaur forms to look graceful. But yep, almost had a My Little Centaur in the dream sequence,.

Jade and Trevor, I borrowed Miss Muffet a second time for an exit scene, hope that’s alright. And I’m sorry for the horrible tuffet joke. XD

Friendly Heads Up! There will be a Sketch Saturday bonus update this week. In the name of story progression I decided to axe the two-strip scene that would have “aired” next week (it was kind of random for it’s own sake and didn’t really add anything except acting as a questionably-necessary transition).

However, the scene included some non-sequitur dialog that I personally REALLY love and I’d hate for it to not see the light of day. So, come back on Saturday for a special Deleted Scene bonus update!!

-EDIT- Comic had a little downtime due to exceeding my bandwidth allotment. Fixed now, sorry for that!

I apologize to those of you who check the comic right at the crack of midnight CST, had a late start on finishing touches. But, today’s comic comes with a bonus extra: a Behind the Scenes look at the development process.

(I was originally going to share these as a Sketch Saturday, but I think they make more sense posted along with the pertaining comic.)

So, originally this comic was going to be two pages of content. Page 1 was Selkie falling through the sky only to land gently and delicately at the portcullis. Page 2 was Selkie asking the others for a teleport to avoid walking up a long flight of stairs which suspiciously resembled the staircase from Revolutionary Girl Utena. VERY suspiciously so… >_>. For brevity reasons I decided it did not need to be two pages long.

But, for a peek into the editting process, here are the pencils for the original draft of this page(s):

If you’re thinking that the first image, as a stand alone Thursday comic, would have been a bit weak, you’re thinking the same thing I was. I wanted to keep the Utena staircase as a nerdy shout-out, but it became too nonsensical trying to squeeze it in to the top row of panels alongside the castle and the falling through the sky (both of which are more important as scene-setters), and removing anything from the second or third rows of panels would mean less time spent on the characters, which is probably bad (I would think) for a character-driven story. So, sorry staircase. We’ll crack the world’s shell some other time.

I think the end result overall is stronger than if I had drawn and run these two as separate strips. I don’t want another year to go by before we even get out of Selkie’s dreamspace. XD

Welcome to Chapter 3. One day I may figure out titles for these arcs. XD

I also have another Fan Art update. ChellRaeSelkie sent me more MMO recreations of Selkie:

Thank you ChellRae!

And here is the first of the two reader-requested “where are they now” shorts. Hi, Jessie!

For those that don’t remember Jessie, she was the shoe clerk that appeared here.