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[Dragyn]

Heh...caught yerself, then?

There's actually...let me think...scribbledy, sketch, BG, ink, detail, color, shadow 1-3, bgcolor, trees...I think that's all of 'em. So, that'd be 11 layers. No...12, there's also the one called smokestyle.

So yeah, just 12 layers on this one. I'm getting better.

[Faith]

*Laugh!!!*

I love the name of the layers... ;D

Neat. Wasn't your old average something around 30?

[Dragyn]

20 to 30, yeah. I occasionally drift towards that many, but not nearly as often.

That's actually what the layers are called, too, by the way.

[Gryphor]

I use the same program and 5 is high for me.

[Faith]

Heh. I use Windows Paint, so I don't get any layers.

Meh, still fun to play with, anyway. ;D

So... I'm curious... does one of the moons change color, or something?...

[Dragyn]

What? Why would the moons change color?

@ Gryph: 5 is high for you, is it? Do you shade your work, or just outline and color it, 'cuz the shading usually accounts for most of my layers.

[Gryphor]

i don't usually shade ;D ;D

[Faith]

Heh. Yup, that'd be it, then.

Well... in one of the beginning updates, on the basics of the systems of Symmetraxis, it showed and named all the moons, but none were white.
Now every moon I see is a solitary white moon.

[Fox]

I don't get layers, so I don't use them. >_> It'd probably be easier if I did....but I'm impatient. Blargh....

You know, Faith, there are so many things I've never given any thought to until you mentioned them. I can't tell you how many times I've said to myself "Wait....where was that?" and looked back.

[Faith]

*Laugh!!!*

Sometimes I think that Dragyn would prefer that I didn't notice those things.
Not that a moon that changed color wouldn't be neat, or anything... ;D

Well, your drawings still turn out really well, for not using layers...
Extremely well, actually. Like in those winter pictures you do with all that snow falling. As well as your shading and light affects.

[Dragyn]

Well, the White moon you see should probably still be red, and it is, in fact, slightly red-tinted, though that sorta' makes it look like the wrong moon. It's just not as red as it was, 'cuz I seem to have lost the pallette I'd been using for it.

Uh, since I don't think this'll be mention again in-comic:

Tyr: Blue/Blue-White moon
Karma + Kismet: Twin Moons, usually drawn purple
Mara: The red moon (The one you've supposedly been seeing)
Phairon: Lighter Red Moon

[Faith]

Heh.
Thought so. (As to the naming.)

Mara doesn't always have "her" (?) face, then?
Do any others ever get faces or designs?

[Dragyn]

Mara should always have the face. Look closely...

[bloodreaper]

You're drawing your comics digitally, without using layer, but you have a layer feature?
1. Your coloring is very impressive, for not uing layers. -Or even for someone using layers.

2. Get yourself some layers, it will really make coloring and shading faster, easier and better.

The principal advantages of layers are twofold. There's other tricks that become natural once you get used to using them.

1. You can paint on a layer under your line work. This allows you to color right up to the lines without worrying about coloring over them.

2. You can shade or paint in a layer over something and then erase parts of that layer, without effecting the stuff under it. Again you can color in a line drawing without worring about hurting the background, as you can erase the stuff that sticks out and the backround will re-appear.

Plus you can shade something, erase the shading and redo it, or simply change the tint/shade of your shadows later, without damaging the actual picture.

I hope this helps.

Also, moons with faces are creepy. I think you did that on purpose.

[Dragyn]

Indubitably.