“This is my robot!” Emily’s way of saying she’s about to show off her passion! I wanted to keep a continuous flow of Em’s acrobatics and verticality, as well as maintain focus on the alleyway, so I decided on a large page spread of movement, capturing her at every pivot. As the comic goes on, I’ll be playing with perspectives and maintaining this format whenever Em is traversing the city’s topography to try and convey her daring maneuvers. ^^
After JC impressed Emily with her tech, Em was eager to strut her own stuff! So she asks JC to pick a high spot. A high spot? Umm ok… Turns out Em likes a spontaneous challenge! She takes JC up on it, and preps to strut her stuff. On this page, I added a little shading on Em’s tank top and her close-up face in post. I liked the way it turned out and so future pages will have more shading as a result!
Here we have JC showing off what’s she’s all about! Cybernetic research is her jam, and this prototype is the tip of her research’s iceberg. Em is clearly excited to see where this goes!
JC is coming out of her shell and wants to show Emily firsthand what she’s been working on. Fun fact: when I first inked this page, it dawned on me that Em was much bigger than the Bunny Brews door lol. Sooo the window had a redo. Stretched to the right, and the interior was redrawn. Did I nail it? 😀
JC and Em’s meetups have become routine. JC decides it’s time to pick Em’s brain a little and see what makes her tick. I liked drawing this page – it was a fun exercise figuring out a way to make series of panels of two women chatting at a cafe booth come across more entertaining than just chatting, so I showed this through Em’s body language and JC’s hand gestures and subtle head tilt. We’re about to leave Bunny Brews, so stay tuned!
On this page, my first idea was to redraw the first few pages all over again – albeit with slight differences in facial expressions and dialog – to emphasize the routine they’ve established. Then, as I began drawing that first rehashed page, I decided it would be a nice change to instead incorporate some inner monologue from JC while still presenting the main page from that first day at Bunny Brews, this time with Emily waving to JC.
