Hello! Dia duit! ..and welcome to Chapter 4 of Bata Neart!! This begins an exciting chapter for me, as each page is an interesting new challenge to improve on relatively new material (the original Chapter 4 was drawn about 4 years[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
CH04 - The Lake
Page 2, and the re-draw continues! Scene-for-scene this is pretty much the same page as the original Chapter 4, however the original was disqualified for use due to poor draw quality and the fact that Ashling’s design didn’t stay consistent.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
With Page 3, we get the Bata Neart logo and this chapter’s title page. This is one of what I think will only be a handful of brand new material for Chapter 4. I needed to introduce this scene as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Following on from the title page, I’m hoping that Page 4 gives you better sense of what Ashling has been doing in the previous page. As mentioned before, this is my re-write of Sharon’s punishment for the girls and it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Quiet page huh? This is a sort-of redraw of the original title page of Chapter 4. The main point of it is just to set a mood for the coming scenes, but also to give you a slightly better feel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another re-draw and an odd character design side note. When I first drew this page in the original Chapter 4, this was Aoife’s first re-appearance in her original re-draft design (which is what I use for her now). I actually[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Following on from last week, we get continue this corridor scene with the girls. Like several redrawn pages in the New Addition of Bata Neart, these two pages actually formed one page in the Original Bata Neart. Now, for the first time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Now things will get a little more Irish 😀 The following scenes will heavily feature Camogie, a varient of the ‘GAA’ sport ‘Hurling’ which female players practice. There is very little difference between Hurling and Camogie, beyond the gender separation,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello and welcome to yet another Retro Flashback page! By which I mean another page where I compare New vs. Old Bata Neart pages. Before I continue, please see the older page that today’s update is based on: This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Summer time! Time for warm weather, days at the beach….and my annual comic flake-out. Yes, my update buffer has gone straight to the wall again and I need to rebuild it while getting my energy back for the next drive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…