This time around I kept all the boring history to like less than one page. See! I am learning I swear!

Brother’s response is literally mine when I read the first chapter over again. I’m like, “How do you know all this stuff?! And why the heck are you wasting all my time telling me?!” Also Brother’s exclamation is there to help quell my own fears that I wasn’t just writing another Mr. Connors #2. Also also, what is up with Brother’s stance?? It’s like some weird interpretive dance 😛

Also I wanted to pull the lame “BONK stick” joke once more this chapter. Just like me, Joel is learning his lesson. Slowly, but surely.

I put the first panel and the last panel off to the very last. Doing a detailed background that is in proper perspective is tiring at times.

Today’s history lesson: Fort Cosgrove is a place, and this place was attacked during the war.

……fascinating.

Typography is such an interesting art style.

Working with type and font was actually one of my biggest struggles during my design classes (that and color, go figure…). To this day I still kinda dislike working with type. HOWEVER! If I have to hand drawn type it is a much, much more enjoyable experience to me. This is only my second time working with Blackletter (also referred to as Gothic Script), and while it is pretty tedious, it is very rewarding! I also really enjoy psychedelic font work. Fitting everything into shapes or distorting letters in a really funky way :3

Ah yes. Another one of infamous “walk-and-talk” scenes coming right up. It’s normally my way of cheating with boring dialogue, while still giving the characters something to do. Don’t worry, I plan to wrap up the chapter in just a few more pages (hopefully).

Ha! So you thought I was updating on a weekly schedule? Or at least I would finish a page every other week? How about more like once a month?! >:D

But seriously, I’m extremely sorry about not posting the past few weeks. All my time was eaten up by the combination of getting used to Seattle, finding a temporary job, starting that job, still looking for another long term job, traveling two states over to go to a wedding, etc. Okay…so maybe not all my time, but when I found some free time I either was too tired to draw or not very inspired to do so. But I will try to make more of an effort though.

As for commentary about this page in particular, I can’t think of much…

……Joel’s word bubbles look like little ghosts :3

Alright, page one-o-one. Had to find a new scanner, so it’s up today a little later than planned.

Don’t worry, Joel’s just freakin’ out. Also I thought it was kinda ironic how both Sven and Joel were both worrying. Joel’s breakdown is from a legit fear, but seems odd because of the delayed reaction; while Sven’s fretting is over unimportant matters, but seems realistic in nature.

Also I had to put Sven’s lines in because I find that I ask myself some of the exact questions every time I get done talking or visiting with someone. I guess that’s one of the things I inherited from my mother 😛

Page. 100.

And it only took roughly four years to get here…

Everything seemed like it was against me on this page.

I spent like an hour working with the printer to get it to work, and after I figured that out GIMP decided to join the “trouble train” as well and not launch on my computer. So originally the plan was to upload this shortly after lunch, now it’s almost supper…

As for the page itself, at least it was a lot of fun to draw. I decided to go with some more unusual panel shots (like panel 3 from behind Joel, or especially panel 4 looking down from the rafters). Although panel four sure gave me some extra work to figure out perspective, which changed from being behind the characters just slightly above them (so you would see the whole room) to being directly above them and just looking down. I ended up with this more three-fourths view, or isometric view.

Joel seems pretty good at “story telling” on the spot…

Also…hype……for………next…………page! 😀

Whoops! Meant to finish this yesterday. Didn’t have the shading done till late last night.

Oh, by the way, have you heard? I’m switching to an every-other-week schedule! Okay, no, not really (thank goodness). Things have just been super busy figuring out housing and a job that I just haven’t been able to set aside much work to do on MitM.

After my most symmetrical page ever, I do this haphazard layout. When sketching this page I was really struggling to get the panels to layout how I wanted them, so I gave up and went with this weird layout in the end. I wanted to try and have a character breakup two different panels, and I ended up with Sven awkwardly thrown into the middle of it. If you’ve been reading MitM so far, you’ll know that it’s ripe with several layout experiments, some which are awesome and others that kinda fall flat, and I’m afraid this one leans more towards the latter category…

Also it would seem that Joel is really testing Brother’s “cool nerve” O_o

Well this page was all sketched by last week, but I didn’t get the time to actually shade it till recently. Moving out of my apartment sapped up all my extra time…

Back to my old scanner for a few weeks, so I’ll do my best not to have the right side of the page cut off…

As for the page itself, this is definitely the most symmetrical page I have ever done. It’s also one of the only pages I have ever done that does not feature a panel that bleeds to the edge of the page. I think I counted 3 pages out my current 97 that are like that. I dare you to find them all! :3

I’ve seen this joke before…

Anyways, trying to lighten up my shading and use more highlights than I used to. I’m doing this because it’s finally day again and no longer night time (in story). Also a keen artist should be able to point out my failing in one of these panels. I swear I know how to draw perspective!

I just rush some panels without fully thinking through them 🙁