Amanda added a lot of the effect and detail to this one. Including a little more definition in the detail of Roeke's eyes.

The cover! Pretty close to what ended up on the page, actually. That will be the case a lot of times. I don't often change my mind past this point. I kept a running list of reference I'd want to look up to help me draw good.

Originally a full on DPS (double page spread, not damage per second- nerds!), I chickened out and boxed up the main elements of pages 2 and three.

You can see me working out the paneling in the margins... after crossing out whatever I didn't like on the layout itself.

Did a lot of my thinking around the sides of this one. I definitely prefer where it ended up to some of the alternate layouts floating here.

Oh! I knew I did this SOMEwhere. The image in the bottom left is my aerial view diagram of Roeke's house. This helped me keep it all straight when I was drawing these scenes.

I had fun making these pages "mirror" each other. Well, mirror and flip.

I don't remember where, but I saw some comics where the framing would cut off a good chunk of the character or action, leaving a lot of open space in the panel. I like that, so I stole it. But then I doodled the whole figure anyway so I could wrap my head around where everything goes.

Sometimes, artist-Jhustoe complains about how many panels writer-Jhustoe makes him fit into one page. What a jerk. Obviously, the panelling stayed pretty much the same for these, so those are my "I've drawn this already" X's, and not my "No, not this way" X's.

I mentioned the progress bar before, right? I think I started that several pages in and went back to add it to the other layout pages, haha. What a dork. Also, pg. 16 technically has 10 panels, but I reassured myself that there was only 7 had any actual drawing to be done.

It all starts with stick figures. Also, the Champion (or ChampBOT) still hadn't gotten its name changed to The Guardian yet.

Oh, look at that! The blackout page was waaay different in the layout stage, it was real boring! I'm super glad I changed that. Now it's one of my favorite pages of the issue.

What angle best captures a yawn?. Also, great note, Jhustoe: "MOAR TREEZ."

Some of the first concepts for Roeke's look, and some bad puns. "No sunglasses (that's a bad idea)." I don't think I was actually planning to give her a scarf, I think that was a separate doodle, figuring out how to... draw scarves. There are a few attempts at naming the world this takes place in, not that it ever gets mentioned in the comic... . My initial instinct was my usual one with regards to giving her a thin jawline, but I wanted to work against my usual "type." The image of Roeke breaking down after losing Miri was one stuck in my head early on.

Here's a mix of my designs, and my practice sketches based on James' designs. The Torch and uppermost Spiders are me working from James' designs. The guardian and the Spider on the bottom right are my designs. Thank god for James, right? I do actually really like the Guardian here, but it was too similar to the Torch in the end (and I had no idea what to do with his legs...).