CONTEXT

Hello, this is the second 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, by barging in screaming with a gun, knocking a vase over and blowing up a police station.

THE ACTUAL DEV DIARY

I've made some progress on the comic, it may be small but it's surprisingly calming when a comic comes together, some problems are figuring out the clothing both the hostages are supposed to be wearing, I just assume a shirt and cheerleader uniforms or something, but I'll have to go through more references, which is something that takes a bit of mental preparation.

I don't actually know the names of the 2 characters, so I'll refer to them as hostages for the foreseeable future.

I also don't exactly know their personalities, I know that they're in college, and that's just about it, really wish animation didn't take that long, or the artist made some sort of introduction comic for all of them.

there actually isn't too much to say here, just problems with characterization and the satisfaction of seeing a plan come together.

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, hopefully I don't get sued by whatever legal team Eipril's got behind her back, bigger fish to fire right?

• Panel 4: finished the faces and added dialogue, facial expressions will get better hopefully.
• Panel 5: I like using fake outs in my text whenever my character talks, not because he's noble, it's because he can't get a girlfriend.

Next steps include finishing the clothing of the hostages and then moving onto the second page's sketches, so I'll:

1. Sketch everything
2. Lineart everything
3. Color everything
4. Shade everything

And then upload them in a stack, or maybe in a pair (hey, much like our hostages) so readers (if any) don't have to wait for another one to get out.

All of this is me experimenting and finding a system that works for me anyways, so I'll try to not sweat it too much unless legal trouble comes.

- Colonel Yuri, over and out.