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So I've been hmming and hawwing about Chapter 3 of LOKI. My main issue was that it was too episodic, and unlike the first two chapters, which are also quite episodic, didn't really do anything in terms of advancing the plot or characters in any way, shape or form.

I told myself to just tank it out and do it anyway, since the chapter was only 19 pages and not a whole lot of work compared to the first two but. I just finished thumbnailing the chapter that comes afterwards, and not only is it monstrous in length and will take me a long time to finish, it does a better job in terms of both advancing the plot and characters and makes Chapter 3 pretty much redundant. So now Chapter 4 is Chapter 3 and Chapter 3 is a scrap folder.

Unfortunately I couldn't have figured this out BEFORE I did a whole bunch of inking, but I'm getting better at not trapping myself into spending weeks on comic pages I'm not excited about because the whole point is to enjoy what I'm doing, right? So, the pros outweigh the cons I think.

Anyway, so here's some of my inking progress (with sketch layers visible). These will never see the light of day as final pages, but I'm still pretty proud of the way they were turning out. Don't worry about spoilers, it won't ruin anything for Chapter 2.

( Image dump under cut )

OH MAN GUYS I JUST STARTED WATCHING SENGOKU BASARA    !!!!!!

I feel like they literally sat down and were like "Okay, hmmm, what would Justin like to see in a show?"

Seriously, like...seriously.

-WORLD OF HAM check
-EVERYONE IS BADASS  check
-RIDICULOUS CHEESY EVERYTHING check
-SO  MUCH HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT IT MIGHT AS WELL BE TEXT check

I'm only on episode 5. I can't even watching it more then 1 episode at a time, I'm afraid I might explode from the awesome.

Also, some art! More original stuff, that's really all I've been working on:
( Arts under ze cut! )