Page 21, Third Version
/Yet another version of page 21, this time giving the volcano demon some energy lines. I tried painting flames dripping from his swirling corona, but that was a flop. I spent some time working on the eyes and then took a dive into digital features and used Clip Studio Paint’s “Saturated Lines” — those radial line blasting out of the demon. I like them because they say “energy.”
In my first attempts at this volcano demon I tried being “painterly”, but those paintings sucked. When I tried to draw the pictures using dark outlines, they sucked. I finally settled on this look. I will use this painting in the book because:
It’s graphic.
It’s simple.
It gets the point across.
It doesn’t look like I was trying to be painterly and failed.
It captures my vision of the volcano demon in his evil form.
