So, there was supposed to be a comic here today.  But after three or four panels, I wasn't happy with the quality, so I scrapped it.  Which kind of sucks because I made a promise to myself I wouldn't skip comics, except for the last Monday of the month.

Maybe I mean, one week a month.  YEAH.  THAT'S WHAT I MEANT.

So, taking my one week off this month, we have,

Jenn's Comics Through the Millenia, Chapter The Second

1989 - The Year I Discovered Watercolor Markers

And look!  It's Proto Carrie!  Back when she was Carrie Green, security guard for the Cloning Research Center in the Far Flung Future of 1993. There are definite improvements from 1988.  Previously I was working solely in black and white, with Marks-a-lot markers and ball point pens for pure blacks, and pencils for shading.  Now I was using markers for bold coloring and pencils for more subtle shading.  I think this was the start of the cel-shading coloring I do now.  I'm rather proud of that "painting" in the last panel.

I was also moving away slightly from original "Robotech" comic imitation and deeper into a more "Dirty Pair" look for my characters.  Carrie's eyes are freaking HUGE.  And the hair colors and shapes are so so so mid 80s anime.  Some of the colored sound effects were directly inspired by Matt Wagner's Mage comic, who painted all his sound effects to match the background. Oanel 2 also has a lot of crosshatching, which would be the start of an experiment in the warly 90s where my comics were nothing BUT crosshatching.

There was a big change in quality from 1988 to 1989.  They're also a far cry from what I do today, but the core of what I'm doing now is unmistakably there.

I owned that shirt Jackie, the purple haired girl at the bottom right, is wearing.
 

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