Welcome to the lake!
Where is the lake in Ashford you may ask? I really don’t know, I sort of made up this place 😀
I don’t have an awful lot to say about this one I’m afraid, beyond the fact that we’re getting into pages that I was on the fence about re-drawing. I will certainly redraw everything, but my memory sort of made me feel that some of these pages were pretty good as they were.
Truth is though, every page I draw needs work, up to and including the stuff I’m drawing now. That’s kind of why I like this redraw. I’m correcting my errors with new tricks I’ve learned recently.
He’s the original, so you can see:
You can see that I was experimenting more then. Panel breeches, odd angles, light effects, and even the trees were all still sort of new to me back then. Only recently have I started to get used to drawing trees. Compare the tree-lines to see 😀
It will be exciting to see what comes next in this drawing odyssey, and hope you enjoy it too 😀
2.5% by volume? Yowser, that really is some weak beer. 😯
I was wondering if anyone would notice that 😀
I kinda wanted to underline how lousy ‘Star-brand’ beer was and also show the Rebecca’s decision to give it to her teenage daughter wasn’t an entirely reckless move. At 2.5%, they would have to drink a lot of it to get any effect 😀
2.5%? And here, I thought that I lived in the lnd of weak beer.
Here in America, we do have plenty of weak beer. More to the point, it tastes lousy — except for the craft beer and the stuff from the microbreweries.
The idea of a high school student drinking beer openly is foreign to us. Shortly before I turned 18, the drinking age was raised to 21. Even college students are often too young to imbibe. The ones near the border often go to Canada for their fix.
Me? I learned to drink ber when I was stationed in Germany. At the age of 19.
Welcome to Bata Neart Ray, I hope you enjoy 🙂
Admittidly 2.5% would make a weak, poorly tasting beer. But since this was ‘own-brand’ beer that Ashling’s mother was trying to clear out of the shop, I was kind of going for ‘crappy undrinkable beer’ 😀
It has always perplexed me that the drinking age in the US has been so high. Even with a drinking age of 18, many European teenagers encounter some booze long before this (especially the French). Underage drinking in Ireland is still forbidden, but is gotten away with by a bizarre legal loophole. It turns out that it is illegal to purchase booze before the age of 18, but it is legal to drink from the age of 16. Thus you’ll often have groups of friends leaning on one of their older friends to obtain their ‘legal to drink’ booze for them. As long as they are not loitering or causing trouble, the police will tend to ignore teenage alcohol usage (unless there is a clear problem).
PS. Saw you were on DA too. Now put you on my ‘watch’ list 😀