{"id":7622,"date":"2025-10-04T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T23:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:34:15","slug":"malyck-wip-crop-the-harbingers-path-ch3-october-4-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landylachs.com\/sketchblog\/2025\/10\/malyck-wip-crop-the-harbingers-path-ch3-october-4-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Process Crops – The Harbinger’s Path Ch3 | October 4, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Harbinger\u2019s Path | Chapter 3 work-in-progress crop (art not final)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Progress crop from the page I’m cleaning up today I felt like sharing. The colors are not the actual ones – it’s just a bright color I’m using to see the mask more easily. <\/p>\n

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Edit: October 13, 2025<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Repurposing this post to add any additional process crops I feel like sharing for chapter 3! <\/p>\n

\"Comic<\/a>Did some drawing for this panel tonight! Did the line sketch drawing and color masks The red there is again only for masking, and not the final color – though it looks a little nifty to me, as-is. <\/p>\n

I have a confession to make – I have never been comfortable choosing local colors until drawing this comic. I’m not sure what happened, but I would never, not in a million years, have been able to choose the colors in this panel a year ago. My local colors often lacked harmony when I chose them, and I would need to do quite a bit of trial-and-error until figuring out a palette which was somewhat decent – and even then, I was often displeased by the colors. <\/p>\n

Remember, Chapter 1 was initially conceived as a black-and-white comic. For that chapter – and that chapter alone – I added color after doing a greyscale value pass. This was my initial plan because I am very fond of black-and-white comics – but it was also because I was not confident whether I could pull off color successfully for a comic page. <\/p>\n

In Chapter 2, this chapter was conceived in color from the start. However, it uses a mixture of different workflow experiments for different pages. Many of these pages didn’t begin with local color. Many began with a burnt sienna value drawing, with colors layered on top (though I might not have used this method for every page). <\/p>\n

Chapter 3 is the first time, I think, where I’ve been starting with local colors first (though I’d need to check chapter 2 to be certain). I never would have had the confidence to do this in chapters 1 or 2 – or anytime before this year. I definitely focused on values first before now, and drawing the comic has really felt like remembering all the things I used to love about lines. I haven’t really worked with lines (beyond very loose sketches) for years.<\/p>\n

It’s been helping so much with making several things which have eluded me for years feel much more natural to me. Mainly improving my construction drawing from imagination skills, and I think it is also the reason my ability to choose local colors seems to be improving. <\/p>\n

I’m so happy I started this comic, for so many reasons, and this is just one more reason to add. <\/p>\n

\"Loose<\/a>Here’s how it looked when I opened the file tonight (with some text redacted to prevent spoilers). <\/p>\n

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Edit: October 19, 2025<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\"Line<\/a>Crop from one of the panels I’ve been drawing this weekend. While drawing chapter 2, discovering Krita’s “isolate layer function” felt like unlocking a superpower. I was vaguely aware this functionality existed in Photoshop, but I never used it, because I rarely worked with lineart until this year. I never appreciated how useful and time-saving it was until now.<\/p>\n

During chapter 1 and partway in chapter 2, whenever I needed to adjust part of the lineart, I was manually going through my convoluted stack of layers, hiding and un-hiding through them until I could see the lines clear enough to pinpoint what I needed to adjust. <\/p>\n

But now, no more! All i need to click is “isolate layer” and that’s it! I can see the entire layer! Right then, right there. <\/p>\n

Magic, I tell you. <\/p>\n

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Edit: November 14, 2025 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Work-in-progress<\/a>Currently enjoying cleaning up this panel! <\/p>\n

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Edit: December 5, 2025 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Work-in-progress<\/a><\/p>\n

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Edit: December 13, 2025 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Work-in-progress<\/a><\/p>\n

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Edit: January 17, 2025 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Work-in-progress<\/a><\/p>\n

A work-in-progress panel, and–\"Work-in-progress<\/a>–a no context Trahearne! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progress crop from the page I’m cleaning up today I felt like sharing. The colors are not the actual ones – it’s just a bright color I’m using to see the mask more easily.  Edit: October 13, 2025  Repurposing this post to add any additional process crops I feel like sharing for chapter 3!  Did…<\/span><\/p>\n

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