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Published: 2018-07-28 21:53:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 3032; Favourites: 61; Downloads: 10
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IT's comic time! with 50% more blushing and Pearl angstSo I started working on this shortly after Reunited aired, and boi I did not remember comics taking this long to make
Anyway, I got inspired to make a comic about fusion after watching Now We're Only Falling Apart and realizing how truly important the events from The Answer were to the entirety of the story, and I just really loved all those connections. The title I partly nicked from a SU book called "Fusion for Beginners and Experts" (which is really cute and you should totally check out).
I'm overall happy with how it turned out, even tho I wish the colours were more pronounced, but that's just a watercolour limitation that I'll have to accept ;_;
and forbid my crappy handwriting, but I wasn't gonna spend another hour editing the text digitally, that already killed me the last time I made one of these
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Oooh this is such a dreamy, sweet comic you did here! The colors are so magical and the conversations are wonderful!
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aww thank you very much!
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You are welcome!
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OMFG THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL WHY CANT I FAVΒ IT MORE THAN ONCE?!!!?
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This is beautiful, well written and well drawn.Β 
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aww thanks, i'm happy you like it and how it came out
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honestly its brilliant
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Nice work! This whole comic probably took a lot of time to do.Β
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thanks! yeah i worked on it every day for a few hours for about 2 weeks lol, but then again, i took my time with it
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Aaahh...! The execution of this is amazing! Everything from the color choices to lineart and drawings is just so, so great! All the colors (but specially the blue-crimsom sky) are very soothing to look at, and they fit really well to this comic. Not everything need to be colored bright and strong.
As for the story...I have kind of mixed feelings about that. Fusion and what it represents has been done over and over again in the official SU media, be it the show itself or shorts, books etc. I just feel like your presentation of fusion and the characters here...I'm not sure if it feels a bit out of character or if it just lacks something very essential I can't quite grasp on. I think I had this same problem with your another Steven Universe comic about Steven and Greg. It might be just me, though.
Pearl's angst made me roll my eyes a bit, and the idea of Garnet's speech felt very similar to what she said at the end of Sardonyx betrayal miniarc.
In any case, you did great and you definitely should make more comics. I know they're a lot more work than just simple illustrations and the payoff might not feel worth it, but in the end people do appreciate the effort put into them.
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why thank you! i'm very happy with the color scheme itself, but i always feel like there's something lacking when it comes to contrast, but i'm glad that it still looks nice
tbh even if the fusion theme has been done over and over again i just wanted to take my spin on it just for the satisfaction (i very much love the concept and what it represents for all the characters). i get what you mean with the out of character bit, the last section (after rose leaves) actually gave me some trouble script wise, and even now i would change things if i could go back, but i really just wanted to finish it (plus pearl angsts so often in the show that i figured it would be fitting, especially considering that at this point she didn't quite grasp her own feelings and indepenence about everything)Β
i do enjoy working on comics, but i think i'll try doing shorter ones from now on. both this one and the last one (mr universe) were 8 pages long, so maybe i should try doing 4 pages (even tho that's really not long enough to convey anything so it'll depend on the idea). i have another SU comic idea in mind that's only 5 panels long and it's just a little gag, so i'll see how i feel working on that, in comparison to working on this
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Writing, like drawing and painting, is just something you can better at if you keep doing it long enough. In stories I work for very, very long time I tend to rewrite a loooot of stuff. Storytelling can be a long and complicated process, so you did just fine.
Ooh, a gag comic! I've enjoyed your previous gags, so I'm looking forward to it!
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she's been needing a break for 5750 years
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True ;w; poor Pearl.. it isn't over for her, is it.
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is that a song ref
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thank you!
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