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If you're following this series in order, click here next (Beware: Nudity) . For more information on the entire series, read the "'Demon's Due' Defined" journal entry here. [link]Dernhem, The Fair Harvest Inn, Mid-morning....
I started this one a year ago, actually, and it still took me about ten hours once I hit the inking step. It's good to have it done, anyway.
I'm 200 comments behind now, and I'm going to get caught up before I post the next pages.
Enjoy!
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Reasonably sure I would go insane drawing/inking the cobbled streets and the roof shingles. That or just start seeing everything in gray-scale.[link]
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Thanks! Yeah, no one's claiming I'm completely sane here.
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Yeah, and the cobblestones were even worse. 
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Beautiful detail... It irks me that you pull this off seemingly effortlessly
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Those cobblestones must've been a pain. Still great. I like the chimneys all smoking in unison.
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Thank you! Yeah, the cobblestones took a tedious while, but I don't mind that so much--it allows me to think, and thinking is important...
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It must have taken incredible focus. Or at least appropriate breaks so that one didn't become sloppy.
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"It's oh-so quiet . . . it's oh-so still . . ."
Nice overview.
Not that I would know for sure, but it seems like a picture like that would be REALLY hard to draw. Was it?
Anyway, I'm eagerly waiting for the quiet to be rudely shattered . . .
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Actually, other than the rather tedious (Jeff's Interpretation: "therapeutic" ) approach to the shingles and cobblestones, it was just a matter of double-checking my idea for architecture, and then throwing together a two-point perspective of a street corner. Not to sound pompous, but I've been doing two-point perspective since I was about ten years old (although I've gotten better at it over the years). Three-point perspective took me a few years more to fully pick up.
As far as the rude shattering of the quiet this picture represents, I'm putting together pages 16, 17, and 18 now, and things are starting to get pretty loud...
Thanks for the compliment!
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This is magnificent work... geez, it looks awesome at first glance & improves as I'm drawn into the tiny details... This is a wonderful demonstration of talent along with patience & discipline...
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Thank you! It was fun, if a bit tedious. 
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The roofs impress me; they look like actual wooden shingles. The shadows "follow" each other nicely, and aren't overpowering.
I like the people in the corner, by the well--I wonder what they're talking about. You have a strong sense of how to "move" a viewer's eye through the picture. Wonderful ^_^
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Thank you for noting on the "moving the viewer's eye through the picture" idea, because it is something I consciously try to manipulate as I draw. This one was definitely full of that, since it was going to have so much to pull the eye this way and that.
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Wow great job on the town and its buildings, once again
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Thanks! I might darken in the streets a tad--take the contrast down a bit.
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Damn, dude, that's gorgeous. Not only do I appreciate old-fashioned, Euro-looking architecture, I also highly respect anyone who can actually draw it well!!
Cause I like using quaint villages like this as settings for my monster stories, but I find drawing them a struggle. I was never good at buildings... ARG!! Bravo, man. I love this.
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Thank you! I find it quite enjoyable to see the environment in which the debauchery is to take place... 
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It's true - I have found in creating my comics that the stories and characters always seem to come alive and seem so much more "real" when you build a solid environment around them. I definitely agree with that. But unfortunately it doesn't help the fact that I still suck at drawing buildings!! So I just have to do it anyway and fake my way through it! I guess that's how you learn.
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Haha, well, thanks for that compliment. But in all of them you can tell I'm hiding the buildings as much as possible!
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Kind of a "glass is half-empty" way of looking at it, I'd think, except that you are the actual artist and so your opinions should go unquestioned. 
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Excellent work ! this medieval village very is successful! environment is there!
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Thank you! I'm glad you think so.
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Oh my God, I wouldn't even know where to start with such a picture. It's just so much detail...
Awesome work, dude!
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aww, I can hear the 'de de de de de' morning music playing in my head. Oh yeah!
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I know what you mean! Although I always think of that as a nature scene instead of something like this.
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this is beautiful!!
your attention to detail is amazing
I really like this one
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Thanks! It's a bit of a change for me--a break from pretty, nude women...
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I can see why it took you forever. So...many...cobblestones!
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Yes, it's true. And it's therapeutic for a nervous guy like me...
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I could see how that might work.
It'd make an easily-bored girl like me -need- therapy. :B
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Nice! Great perspective and impressive amount of details and textures.
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Thanks a ton! I was really hoping this would give a detailed, memorable image of the inn.
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It really does! Quite fascinating that you're able to use older works to create the story you're working on now.
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Little town full of little people....everyday like the one before
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"There goes Old Albert with his slaves like always, the same old pretty girls to sell..." 
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