[blog] Year 2, Comic 13 - Frozen Four
★ Notes on Year 2, Comic 13 – Post II: Frozen Four★
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NOTES
✓ How many seats are in this comic? You know when you plan a scene in the bleachers of an NHL arena and then slowly realize you’ve made a terrible mistake? You know, that thing. Drawing stairs is hard. Bleachers are stairs with chairs. (Chair stairs, if you will.) Like, drawing a car is hard—imagine covering it with chairs! Obscene! I’m never going to sit down again.
✓ Hello, I do not care about those dumb chairs. (Aw.) What’s going on in all those photos? Jack took like a billion of Bitty. Why’d he do that?
Jack: What.
Jack: Oh. Well.
Simone: Yeah, I really like these character portraits? Like, how you’re constantly? Catching the light in his face? Or like backlighting him?
Jack: Oh yeah I guess so.
Kris: So you had the campus and geese portraits and then this guy?
Jack: No it’s the campus pictures and then my teammates.
Simone: Oh, well, he’s in all the second set pictures?
Jack: Oh, Bittle’s one of my teammates. Haha, he’s kind of small but he’s on the hockey team.
Kris: Dude…they’re mostly him.
Professor: I believe Simone and Kris are saying he seems to be the subject of your second set of photos.
Jack: Yeah, I decided to use my teammates as my subject.
Professor: But this teammate in particular?
Jack: Uh, not really. He’s just around a lot.
Greg: Uh, aight, so, I think what everyone’s saying is—we KNOW you did your team as your subject for group 2? But it’s like this guy is in ALL your photos. Like, even if he IS around a lot, it’s like you made him the subject of these compositions. And yo they’re successful and all! But see what I’m saying–it’s like you’re implicitly saying HE’S an important part of your team. Least that’s what I see.
Jack: Well. Bittle’s a great teammate.
Professor: Let’s move on to the geese.
WHAT’S THAT ON JACK’S PHONE. IT’S A TEXT SAYING HE LOVES BITTY, I KNEW IT! Oh my Lord, no, here it is. Jack forgot a book on the bus, is the story I was trying to make, I think. Perchance it was next to Eric Bittle? To be QUITE honest, I come up with 25% of detail-things in this comic on the fly. (Remember that Post-It note from 2.1? ON THE FLY.)
How does Shitty get his hair so lush? Shitty Knight might seem quite the “wild child” but takes his self grooming somewhat seriously. If you’re gonna have flow you have to condition and brush that stuff. (?) Also, it seems to have layers, so I think someone (Lardo) helped him sculpt. More on Shitty’s hair—his flow has grown since about the first comic in Year 2. (Though not consistently.)
Alas, there is so much more to talk about! But I could go on forever. 2.14 – Post III will be up in about two weeks or so, and will feature a lot of locker rooms, Wellies encouraging each other, and hockey captains who really really really leave everything on the ice. Thank you!