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eyeball

this is for tuesday's page, this is the closest i've ever been to a deadline hoo wee

i feel... much lighterThere's still so much work to do, but the bulk of it is done. The remaining weeks of update previews are going to be spent double checking everything (fun), and... MAKING THE COVER (that's ACTUALLY fun).For now... I'm... exhausted, but there's still the page to do for next Tuesday, which will be the last update of 2018 (Christmas break!). I'm very tired, a...

Ch 7 Pg 53 [BETA2]

OKAY SO following y'alls feedback on the last post, I've given the text more room to breathe from each other so they're a bit more legible, and added a bit of a dark backdrop which WORKS REALLY WELL AESTHETICALLY holy cow.Thank you guys so much - your help helped make this page better than it was before. This is why I like to involve a lot of people in a project!

Tattoo Removal

Unfortunately, no version of these pages exist where the tattoos layer and the skin layer are unmerged, which means I have to go through and Photoshop out all of them by hand. This means we're getting a lot ofnaked boysbefore I can go through and update the tattoo designs again.It figures that the dying gasps of the corrections process are the most tedious/difficult, but seriously, it's on...

Ch7 Pg73 [BETA]

Hey Buds, be a new set of eyes for me real quick: I updated the Lettering on this page (here is the original for reference) and I wanna know how it reads.Does it make sense?Does it have more impact?Can you read the jumbled bits of dialogue or do they need a little more room to breathe?THANKS GUYSEDIT: YOU GUYS ARE SO INCREDIBLY HELPFUL I'M SO GLAD I DID THIS, I'LL BE POSTING AN UPDATED VER...

Finally

Gettin to those corrections that REALLY MATTER.No joke tho - ever since this was pointed out to me, it's been REALLY bothering me.

CH 8 PGs 5 - 9 HIRES

Main Site: http://daughterofthelilies.com/You can download the .zip file of the pages by clicking on the Download Link at the bottom left corner of this post.Oh man, this is so much better than uploading each page individually!This month's bundle includes the crazy bookshop splash page, I hope you enjoy!

???

howon eartham i supposed to ink a FINISHED PAINTING

Ch5 Edits Underway

I had a little bit of time to kill today waiting for a meeting, so I got a little bit of a head start on the edits for Chapter 5 of next week.The good news is that the edits are really easy and straightforward, like redrawing word balloons and adding small effects here and there.The bad news is that most of the edits are shockingly boring and don't make for fun before/after images to share on ...

remembering

one of the benefits of going back through old pages is that you rediscover what the secret meanings of specific things are that you've forgotten

i love you guys very much please don't hate me

this feels mean spirited so i don't really want to post it publicly but this is turning into a real problem that i need to clarify in the comic as soon as possibleor maybe i just need to get better at drawing

Chapter 3 Corrections Preview

Status: COMPLETEHot dog, it took way less time than I thought.----------REMAINING CORRECTIONSChapter 1: COMPLETEChapter 2: COMPLETEChapter 3: COMPLETEChapter 4: pendingChapter 5: pendingChapter 6: pendingChapter 7: pendingEpilogue: pending

amatomy

okay that's much better

yikes

when doing parody, one question you have to ask yourself is when it's TOO much

Ch8 Pg08

Hey, yeah! That's a nice looking page!

BLEEDS: COMPLETE

...and the last page was, appropriately, this one. I still have to double check all my work to make sure I didn't miss any, but it feels pretty good, man.ONE PHASE LEFT, and that's corrections. That's the FUN stuff.

Quick Update

...just to let y'all know where I'm at.Bleeds are coming along... like, really fast. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 7, and the Epilogue have all had their bleeds handled and checked off the list, which means that three Chapters (4, 5, and 6) are left. That's nothing!EDIT: I just knocked out Chapter 4 while waiting for a meeting with my director. Two More Chapters to go!If I'm able to keep this ...

PAGE FORMATTING STATUS

COMPLETEbring on the bleeds

Page Formatting Status: the end is in sight

HOT DANG.After formatting, bleeds will be next. See those little circles next to the check boxes? Those indicate which pages have Bleeds that need to be corrected.Correcting Bleeds is similar to Formatting, in that they are just as tedious and will take about the same amount of time to complete. But! There are way less of them.I have some serious momentum going on this, so I'd like to take one...

formatting pages is boring until

yoop de do, dum te dum,Oh! What is... what are these layers? I don't see them anywhere in theooooooooohhhhhhhh that's right

PLEASE CHECK YOUR PAYMENT METHODS

Due to some sort of error on Patreon's part, 90% of your pledges DID NOT PROCESS this month. ALMOST EVERYONE'S PAYMENT METHODS WERE DROPPED SPECIFICALLY FROM THIS PROJECT.Please check your payments and your payment processing to make sure your payments actually went through.I have heard that you can easily fix this issue by just re-selecting your pledge amount, or by lowering, then re-rais...

Here's what you can get done when you allow yourself to focus on ~one~ thing.

After deciding to step away from the drafting table last week, I was able to actually take care of the things that were causing me the most stress... and surprisingly, that revealed itself to be Kickstarter Page Prep.Filler will go up on the site this week - I'm sorry only the one page was up for the duration of last week; I was way more tired and burnt out than I originally thought.But, well,...

doof

one of the small pleasures of going through past files are all the things you forgot you deleted from the final pageThis is from Chapter 3, Page 31.

Thursday Update?

Instead of working on a new comic today (though I will be uploading some filler later - people actually did stuff on Halloween??? that was DotL related???), I am determinedly throwing myself back into page formatting for the Kickstarter.My goal is to finish formatting the ENTIRETY of book one before the end of November, and have EVERYTHING READY for the Kickstarter done before the end of the year....

my dayjob

Yup, there it is.so yeah i've been freaking myself out for possibly no reason but hopefully you can understand why i've been dealing with imposter syndrome now, but this job is great and i need to get over this anxiety i have about it, and maybe that includes just talking about it more openlyI'll try to answer your questions about this, but please understand that I like having a job an...

Ch8 Pg08

phewHey, guys! Give me a second to get real with you:I've been... I've been stretched, like, really thin lately. Like, you know the expression "burning the candle at both ends"? If you took a candle, a really long candle, and cut out the wax in the middle of it so the center of the wick was exposed, and then lit ALL THREE wicks, that's how I've been feeling emotionally late...

Patreon: Upcoming Pledge Changes

Despite changing the New Post page only a short time ago to a new layout that no one... has been asking for... and that forces me to now scroll up unnecessarily when I'm done composing a post in order to give you your content, Patreon has decided to implement a NEW new change.So I've... just received this email from Patreon, in which they ask me to pass along this information instead of ju...

Ch8 Pg07

THERE they areSo, uh, a fun fact: Lyra's line about Tiffany's shield will be changed slightly. BECAUSE, as my very-smart-and-who-has-done-more-research-than-me-HUSBAND has pointed out, Pauldrons are shields. So Lyra will say something like "why does she even have a shield?" or something like that.EDIT: Moved to the Patrons Only Tier, because we are running late and I don't want...

Ch8 Pg02 Process GIF - FINAL

here it is, the whole shebangHERE'S THE BREAKDOWN! ONE TWO THREE FOUR:Thumbnail: This is the sloppy drawing I do when I'm transferring my script from the traditional format in my sketchbook to the digital format in my Photoshop template. This is typically the phase where I figure out panels and broad layouts, but as you can see here, there's only one panel, and... Past Meg just... trus...

Ch8 Pg06 HIRES

Main Site: http://daughterofthelilies.com/I'm... I refuse to wait until the end of the month to give you this at is full size because of how much grief it gave all three of us.