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 page is kind of a contrast when it came to re-making it. For one, I made some horrendous art mistakes in the original. Just look at the frame with Sharon pointing and yelling. Even back then I knew that was bad!! However, I always liked the dialogue, and so I hung onto it.
The pages coming up make up one of my favorite sequences in Bata Neart so far, however I’m afraid that you’ll have to wait a bit for them.
I must apologize, and kindly ask for your patience again. In the past couple of months, my normally healthy update buffer has been obliterated by holidays and overtime at work. I’m now down to finishing pages a few hours before updating and that tends to drag down page quality.
So, I would like to give Bata Neart a 2 week break while I catch up. Again, I’m sorry for doing this. In my own pathetic way of trying to compensate, I will post up Bata Neart’s entry into the United Webcomics Summer Special.
There -after, I hope to make a solid run for the end of this chapter.
You’ve gained the attention of “The Man”, Ashling. Bummer. Especially with all the supernatural high jinx that seem to be offing in your future. 😆
What the? Oh no!! I posted this page on a Thursday by mistake!!
Oh well…please enjoy an early page 😀
Anois (Irish: Now) [thank you, Wikipedia!]
Hey, I really don’t see anything so horrendous or pathetic in the last two frames of the older page; it’s a fisheye othographic projection, and focuses attention on Sharon. Actually, I kinda like it. I got no problem with using a variety of changes of points of view and different projections.
Ah ha…my cunning plan to teach people Irish appears to be working 😀
You’re very kind in what you say about the older page. Problem is, I am my own worst critic. I can see countless faults in the page’s execution, both in the old and even the newer page. Back then I was experimenting a lot more with different styles (which is something I should really get back to) but I lacked the experience to really pull it off in the way I wanted. The panel with Sharon bugged me because I had actually managed to get the perspective correct, but then fudged the whole thing up in the inking stage…leaving it very sloppy.
It’s kind of maddening to look at my own work in this way…but it also drives to me continuously improve, so it’s not all bad 😀
“Killing yourself might get you out of exams, but in my class, I expect you to drag your rotting corpse out here for practice! And don’t give me any excuses about rigor mortis, either!”
Funnily enough, Sharon would probably say that 😀