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posted 2008.12.14 at 20:04

Aside from some tough calls on how and where to crop, the biggest change has been to the ammo can in panels four and five - it's now technically accurate in both panels, and shaded correctly in panel five. I toyed with the idea of adding a label (you know, a NATO 7.62 200 ROUNDS sort of thing), but ultimately decided against it.

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OPD : 2005.04.02 @ 23:36

20070724 : Left to right, panels two and three : A bunch of my own art. Copyright cleanup!

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Kind of surprised I can still write cursive, though the p really threw me for a loop. Panel five was sketched out, scanned, scaled up and traced in photoshop- I've no confidence in my ability to ink a straight line and lack any sort of useful augmenting objects, such as rulers. You'd think I'd've fixed this by now, but I've been averse to objects and backgrounds, so it hasn't really been much of a concern.

Still having issues with hands- the thumb in panel six is bent wrong and the hand in panel seven we scaled up after the fact- it was about 1/4 smaller at the end of the shading process. I don't draw nearly enough- life isn't structured to enable it at the moment.

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2005.04.04, 06:40 : Just now it occurs to me that cans that size don't have the mounting slats, and that even if they did they wouldn't close in that configuration. Maybe these are different ammo cans and the lip tucks into the inside or something. A few tweaks along these lines actually works to separate the Templar military equipment from the stuff in use on Terra - though visually explaining it is extraneous.

1719 : Well, it's obvious to me how the lip thinger works- the immediate answer is that the can is double-hulled- basically a dewar flask.