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Well past time, I think, to post a few single images from Sleeper Squad #38 for the benefit of those who can't or won't read PDFs. Alas, while there are some fun scenes, there are not a lot of single panels that stand well by themselves. So we'll have to do the best we can with what we've got.

As I said in the work notes under the story, the oil painting of Judith Barker was done ages ago by taking a render of Judith standing in front of some curtains in her nightgown, then clone-painting it with an oil brush in Painter. The resulting image was pasted into a picture frame for this render. I knew even back then that this painting would have a prominent place in Josiah's house; it has just been waiting for its time. Nor is this the last time we'll see it.

All four of the panels in the Josiah scene are quite grainy; you can see some of that at full-size here. (Zoom in!) This set was hard to light, especially since I needed some fairly unearthly lighting in this scene. (All the lighting in this scene comes up from a very low angle.) I didn't mind the graininess for once because here I think it adds to the hallucinatory quality of the whole thing.

Incidentally, even though Judith has been dead since long before the storylines in these comics began, I have had a base for her ever since #12, when she appears in Josiah's dreams (not for the first time, and not for the last). However, in that dream sequence she wasn't wearing this nightgown because I didn't own it yet. It was what she should have been wearing, though, in my mind's eye, and as soon as I bought it I switched her to it. It is very much a Heroines Fleeing Big Dark Houses Book Cover sort of nightgown.

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Well past time, I think, to post a few single images from Sleeper Squad #38 for the benefit of those who can't or won't read PDFs. Alas, while there are some fun scenes, there are not a lot of single panels that stand well by themselves. So we'll have to do the best we can with what we've got.

As I said in the work notes under the story, the oil painting of Judith Barker was done ages ago by taking a render of Judith standing in front of some curtains in her nightgown, then clone-painting it with an oil brush in Painter. The resulting image was pasted into a picture frame for this render. I knew even back then that this painting would have a prominent place in Josiah's house; it has just been waiting for its time. Nor is this the last time we'll see it.

All four of the panels in the Josiah scene are quite grainy; you can see some of that at full-size here. (Zoom in!) This set was hard to light, especially since I needed some fairly unearthly lighting in this scene. (All the lighting in this scene comes up from a very low angle.) I didn't mind the graininess for once because here I think it adds to the hallucinatory quality of the whole thing.

Incidentally, even though Judith has been dead since long before the storylines in these comics began, I have had a base for her ever since #12, when she appears in Josiah's dreams (not for the first time, and not for the last). However, in that dream sequence she wasn't wearing this nightgown because I didn't own it yet. It was what she should have been wearing, though, in my mind's eye, and as soon as I bought it I switched her to it. It is very much a Heroines Fleeing Big Dark Houses Book Cover sort of nightgown.