And henceforth, it is updated

Latest page for my webcomic is up...and this page probably took the longest conceptually to come up with. I redid this page over, and over, but I'm relatively pleased with the results. Voyage Moyen is on the Girlamatic site under the links column.

I wish I could say that coloring pages is easy-but it's not for me. I sometimes will color a whole layer, only to end up dumping it later. I may put up the processes of how a page is colored-but in general-I tend to color as I feel-and I think that's why it changes so rapidly. I may put up some examples at some point-some base things that I do consistently between pages-but a lot of it is still trial and error. I'm still figuring it out. Yes, it's all done in Photoshop.

On another note, I saw the movie Pan's Labyrinth this weekend. I have to say, I wasn't wholly prepared for how utterly devestatingly sad and depressing the movie turned out to be. I was kind of torn about it, because I was really prepared to see something amazing, and I felt a little let down by it. I could see what Guillermo Del Toro was trying to do-and it's beautifully acted throughout, just there was a certain something about it that just didn't flow for me. It seemed to push everything at you-like here's this dark fantasy intertwined with the brutality of war-that just made it slightly theatrical-like a stage play or something. I honestly wish it were a little more fantasy than war. But, it is a beautiful looking movie, and it paces rather well.

In any event, I can understand the idea of life being cruel. That the cruelest act can never halt the freedom of fantasy and imagination. That the beauty of a fantastical world within the mind can be the only thing beautiful in the world. Sometimes fantasy is an escape from reality. And whether that's healthy, or not, who would be the judge?