Early Page 392 (Patreon)

Communication is hard.

As you might be able to tell from the thumbnails, there's a lot of moving around I did on this page. When I do thumbnails I often don't have the backgrounds done yet, so I make a best guess at scene blocking -- figuring out where the characters are in the scene and how they "act." This almost always changes between thumbs and the final page, but this scene in particular had a lot of blocking tweaks.

The main culprit is that when I did the thumbnails, I intended to draw the entire kitchen for the background, which gives more room for the characters to move around and do things like tend to dishes, etc. However, as I was doing the background, I asked myself the very important question of if I really NEED to draw another half of the kitchen. The answer was no.

So for example, instead of a comedic camera pan where Walter was to the left of them the whole time, which wouldn't have made sense due to previous scene acting/blocking anyway, I had him entering in from the other room. A quick slap together of some foreground walls over a previously made background made that a pretty easy thing to make without having to make a whole other background for one single frame.

Also, to explain before I get questions:

What Walter is saying: we talk a lot about Oakewood considering he's never actually around.
What Belfry hears: Oakewood's here???