Page 71 and a change of plans

Gonna do the double update next weekend. Trust me, it makes more sense.

I'm also going to try to actually talk about the pages themselves in these posts and less about how I fail at updating on time. Well, that and site updates and mild alterations to past pages (which are planned, but only to the extent that some panels get rearranged, some colors getting added, etc.). On THAT note:

Epicest. Page. Ever.

In GS's history anyway. Yes, that's Genetrice. Yes, it's orbiting the planet. Yes, I used a lot of brushes trying to effectively create the stratosphere. It took more doing than I thought it would and it probably would've worked out a lot better if I had discovered the lasso tool sooner. Up until now I was just coloring the old fashioned way which is murder on my wrist. I always knew of the trick to select the area with the lasso tool and fill it with whatever color you want (or take away that color; also super useful since I no longer have to work around that using some extremely complicated method involving Fireworks to make backgrounds show up properly)--but for some reason I always thought it was too hard or it would take longer or...something. Yeah. No. It takes far less time, it's way easy, and it doesn't destroy the health of my right hand. I felt like such an idiot when I realized I'd been doing it the hard way all this time.

Next week we visit Farouk for a couple of pages before abandoning him again for chapter four! Yaaay!