CONTEXT

Hello, this is the first Dev Diary of 'Discourse Under Duress', A comic inspired by and occuring in Eipril's universe. It's also inspired by a dream where I came across a memoir of a furry who fought in a war, got nuked, survived, went to college and got laid, that's as far as I was willing to read.

I've seen and done weirder things in my dreams and turned them into Youtube videos, so this is nothing, I also want to declare that I am not affiliated with Eipril, so perhaps take this comic as a tribute to these kind of artists in the only way I know how.

THE ACTUAL DEV DIARY

I've learned a few things from trying to make this comic, this was the first time I used a script in google docs, and I learned to swallow my objections and truly getting knee-deep into the depths for my references... to also introducing and designing a new character based off the some new lore I established.

(^https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/colonelyuri/viktor-concept-art)

One of the things I've experimented with is page sizes, previously my standard was 1725 x 1300, which was far too small for me to actually fit anything onto the page leading me to use 4032 x 2410, why use is it? because I originally drew the comic on paper as a rough approximation on where things would be, which ended up being to big for the 1725 x 1300 size.

I can say for certain that I prefer the 4032 page size, being used to drawing in 1920 x 1080 for Youtube videos.

PANEL BY PANEL

Anyways, now that's out of the way, I want to dedicate the rest of this dev diary to the comic itself, here's the progress made + any commentaries I have, I actually have a LOT to say about character designs, but I want to dedicate a proper dev diary to it, hopefully I don't forget all the commentary about by then. That or I just make another dev diary.

• Panel 1: Payday-esque drill (complete with third world construction) and a Tankmen, who is from a previous video of mine, which is also a mercenary mission alongside Viktor, the new character.
• Panel 2: nothing special.
• Panel 3: the background behind Yuri is supposed to be faded or a single color, it's a bit hard to explain.
• Panel 4: drawing tied up characters is not my forte.

I also want address why Eipril's characters look so weird, well for one thing, I don't usually draw noses or proper eyes or ears or mouths for my characters, this is changed with anthropomorphic animals, and animals in general, whereby sometimes I might add more details, you can also see this with tankman, as you cannot see his eyes, and such I use his mouth for a facial expression.

Also there are barely any references I can use for the pair, so I had to make references of my own, this image is old, because it's on my desktop computer and I'm in a foreign country right now, the actual file has a proper look, complete with color, line art and shading.

I'm pretty convinced that Eipril has a ref sheet I can look at on her patreon but it's probably locked behind benefits.

Ending lines here

- Colonel Yuri, over and out.