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Here's a practice page for '5 Finger Discount'. I work pretty fast when the ideas are flowing nicely, but this still took longer than it should've. (I need to work more efficiently, I think.) I normally don't post step-by-step stuff, but it looked cool. Perfect justification. The brown and red tones I'm going to use for the basic pages, but I might try a heavily shadowed, toned look for splash pages. There's an amusing little sample in the corner that ate up an hour of my life.

If you're wondering, the feline fellow that Emile's talking to is Leopold Katowski, aka Leo, Thierry's old partner in solving crimes. Leo was Thierry's best friend, and was almost as upset as Emile when Thierry died. Leo kept a weather eye on Emile after the passing of his uncle, knowing that the Cadavre family wasn't exactly the best at raising emotionally healthy children. When Emile graduated near the very top of his class and landed a prestigious position in the Department of Stealth and Sneaking, only to be dishonorably discharged weeks later, Leo knew that there'd be trouble. When Emile disappeared from Figment City only to reappear a few years later in the European underground, Leo was upset more for Thierry's sake than his own. The cute little kid he'd once known had transformed in into a fiendishly clever thief, the bane of his department's existence. Leo's had a couple of opportunities to go after Emile himself, but he's never been able to work up the guts to slap a pair of cuffs on him. Instead, they usually end up having delightful little conversations like the one pictured above. Leo and Emile are friends...in a sense...but it's a really odd relationship, especially since Leo should be dragging Emile off to jail and Emile should be escaping out a window. Leo would be in his late forties, early fifties here. He's supposed to have a weatherbeaten, gruff sort of look, so I based him off of this stray manx that hangs around my neighborhood. Emile is in his early/mid thirties. Something like that. Two decades of being a jerk takes it's toll. haha

This is right in the middle of a conversation, but you get the idea. Emile isn't in town too much, so Leo's filling him in on all of the lovely things he's been missing.

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Here's a practice page for '5 Finger Discount'. I work pretty fast when the ideas are flowing nicely, but this still took longer than it should've. (I need to work more efficiently, I think.) I normally don't post step-by-step stuff, but it looked cool. Perfect justification. The brown and red tones I'm going to use for the basic pages, but I might try a heavily shadowed, toned look for splash pages. There's an amusing little sample in the corner that ate up an hour of my life.

If you're wondering, the feline fellow that Emile's talking to is Leopold Katowski, aka Leo, Thierry's old partner in solving crimes. Leo was Thierry's best friend, and was almost as upset as Emile when Thierry died. Leo kept a weather eye on Emile after the passing of his uncle, knowing that the Cadavre family wasn't exactly the best at raising emotionally healthy children. When Emile graduated near the very top of his class and landed a prestigious position in the Department of Stealth and Sneaking, only to be dishonorably discharged weeks later, Leo knew that there'd be trouble. When Emile disappeared from Figment City only to reappear a few years later in the European underground, Leo was upset more for Thierry's sake than his own. The cute little kid he'd once known had transformed in into a fiendishly clever thief, the bane of his department's existence. Leo's had a couple of opportunities to go after Emile himself, but he's never been able to work up the guts to slap a pair of cuffs on him. Instead, they usually end up having delightful little conversations like the one pictured above. Leo and Emile are friends...in a sense...but it's a really odd relationship, especially since Leo should be dragging Emile off to jail and Emile should be escaping out a window. Leo would be in his late forties, early fifties here. He's supposed to have a weatherbeaten, gruff sort of look, so I based him off of this stray manx that hangs around my neighborhood. Emile is in his early/mid thirties. Something like that. Two decades of being a jerk takes it's toll. haha

This is right in the middle of a conversation, but you get the idea. Emile isn't in town too much, so Leo's filling him in on all of the lovely things he's been missing.