Page 112 - Unity

So this should give you a preview of how all the different styles will be coming together for this last segment of SoG. Which means that the final book will have to be in color, but that's the price to pay. Bummer.

SPEAKING OF BOOKS!

Realizing that, no matter how much I beat up on myself to get the book 2 (LONG long long overdue) re-scanned and prepped, I was never going to find the time to get it done. So I got an editor, and holy cow he's AMAZING. ALL of book 2 has been re-scanned. That's right. ALL of it. SO now all that's left is assembling the FoTs, making the title pages/table of contents/etc and adding in the contest winners work. SO! That's exciting!

This whole thing taught me something important. Actually, several important things.
1) NEVER run a contest for something that's not already finished. It will only cause dissapointments.
2) ADMIT LIMITATIONS EARLIER. *grumble*
3) Help is good!
4) FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS GOOD, KEEP YOUR HIGH-RES FILES!!!

Page 111 - Priorities

Hans = Holden Caulfield.

I realized this recently. Now that he's growing out of it.

Blech. I always disliked Catcher in the Rye. I've come to understand that it's a book of male adolescence.

Being female, it now makes sense that I couldn't relate.

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Page 109 - Eating old Friends

It struck me, as I was putting in the Shades for Racy and Sincerity, that these two characters represent two negative patterns that I often see in women and struggle with/despise greatly. One is the manipulative woman who hides behind a mask of syrup-sweetness, but is vicious and cold. The other is the woman who uses sexuality as a weapon, or defines herself as nothing but a sexual object, thus devaluing her character to little more than breasts and a...well...you know.

Vapid women and manipulative women...two of the worst manifestations of corrupted feminine power in our society. At least, in my opinion.

I wonder why I never noticed this before.

Page 108 - Watching

And so we begin the last part of the last chapter. The final style will be a hybrid of the old and new ones, to show that, no matter how much you grow, your past will always remain a part of you.

Page 107 - I do

So that's (mostly) it for our dream sequences. I hope you have enjoyed them! I learned a lot about the characters and a lot as an artist in this section. Both will be useful in the next, and last, section of Shades of Grey.

Next up! The beginning of the end!

Page 106 - Just Enough

I like this speech.