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Comic Report #29 - Doctor's Orders
🕑 Added 2017-09-28 22:42:36 +0000 UTC Here's the inks for the next page. I'm gonna push through it and spend this week getting it done and posted, since I've put a bit of work into game time I need to swing back into comics. I'm always torn about sharing unfinished grey tones vs. sharing the lineart, and I think the lines are just nice and clean and I tend to lose that in the final comics, so I share my inks this week.I encountered an odd problem in planning this page that one maybe wouldn't expect given the nature of my work. This is the first time I've had to draw a human corpse that isn't dramatic or cartoonish- in the beginning I made them kinda raw-looking but eventually started doing X-out eyes to keep it lighthearted and cartoony. The sheriff's body is a straight-up dead dude, though, so the X eyes wouldn't be quite the right tone (or maybe it will? Filing away for future consideration). I opted to draw him with his usual grimacing expession, since he always had the eyes-closed schema, even in death he looks like a disappointed father. The medical staff are seasoned pros, though, so they're not shy about the corpsiness of the sheriff, it's just business as usual for them- even after Alice's initial surprise at meeting the sheriff like this she just goes right back to work.
One of the earlier story seeds I planted a long time ago (in the pp.304-308 range) was that Alice had wanted to be a surgeon, but her uncle lost her inheritance money so she pursued nursing instead. Dr. Parker could have been any type of doctor, like even a general practitioner, but I thought that it would be better if she was a surgeon at the hospital Alice worked at. This way, in a lemons-to-lemonade sort of deal, she could use the opportunity of medical examination in a makeshift survivortown to teach Alice a little bit of her surgical knowledge. It's a small way to expand her knowledgebase and help her grow as a medical professional.
I'd thought a bit about how I wanted to decorate the interior of the medical exam rooms. I think I touched on this in my last comic post but there's a lot of metal toolshelf cases everywhere, but in the surgical room I wanted to put a bunch of hand tools on the wall, specifically the sawing, drilling and cranking-open kind. I doubt I will actually draw them directly being used, as that's a bit much, but just having them there implies the way a lot of surgery is handled in Tombstone.
I'm gonna get back to work now. As I mentioned above this week is all about comics, so I'll have something more complete to share by this time next week. Thanks for sticking with us!
