Original DA Upload Date: March 8, 2020
The Oddball Tetrad has heard of several words used to define a lady. ‘Doe’. ‘Ewe’. ‘Hen’. ‘Sow’. ‘Jill’. ‘Mare’. But never the word, ‘woman’. How would they react to seeing the word ‘woman’ casually used in a sentence? I imagine something like this.
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First of all, yes, I do realize I technically made a typo here. I put the apostrophe in “Women’s” after the ‘S’ instead of before, as is correct in ‘International Women’s Day’. Luckily, the Grunvaliverse, as with every other universe I create, operates on its own rules. So I imagine the graffiti artist that wrote “Happy International Womens’ Day” here, comes from a universe where “Womens'” is correct. I could’ve sworn “Womens'” was correct while drawing this, though. But apparently it’s not, and it is indeed “Women’s”. Maybe I’ve Mandela’d.
Anyhoo, time for some production notes!
Believe it or not, the hardest thing about this, was coloring the Tetrad. You might notice that, like the room itself, they get slightly darker the further back they are in the room (most clearly seen with their whites). Gilda is the only one whose normal colors were used here; Wendy’s colors were obscured with a black solid at 5% opacity, April’s colors were obscured at 10%, and Margo’s at 15%. This filtering was pretty time-consuming, as you might imagine. And this was before the bandage layer!
Also, as you can see, I decided to use a colored subtitle for the dialogue (color-coded to show that Gilda’s the one speaking) this time around, instead of a speech bubble. There are two reasons for this. One, I felt it enhanced the cinematic look that I always try to go for with my artwork. Two, I tried several different ways of executing a speech bubble here, but none of them looked good. Every speech bubble I tried was either too small, in an awkward position, or obscured the rest of the Tetrad. So I decided instead, that it would be best to show Gilda’s dialogue as a subtitle. And, if I can be honest, I think I actually prefer the dialogue being presented this way. It doesn’t create any of the three problems I brought up above, and, like I said, it makes the artwork feel more like a still frame from a movie, than a panel from a comic. I’ll run a poll asking which my followers prefer; colored subtitles or speech bubbles. But put my vote down for colored subtitles.
Anyhoo, that’ll be all for this one. Happy International Women’s Day! Apostrophized correctly.
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Grunvale is owned by me. You’re free to draw fanart of it yourself, as long as you credit me.
This artwork was made at 4K resolution, in 2.35:1.
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“I’m sorry women.”
– Rodrick Heffley
Someone had to make that reference. 😆
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