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The Elves of LleuGarnock is Copyright Irene Pitcairn<2008-2009. The Elves of LleuGarnock is hosted on ComicGenesis, a free webhosting and site automation service for webcomics.

LleuGarnock HOME Archive     --- CHAPTERS & Sections     --- Chapter 1: Amaranta's Grandchildren 1-1: The Berry Incident 1-2: Destiny & Mr. Cat 1-3: By Garnock River 1-4: Pursuit of Fruit Chapter 2: Gemini Alone 2-1: The Dangers of Thinking 2-2: Healing 2-3: Destiny or Somesuch 2-4: Humans in Town Chapter 3: Laws and Secrets 3-1: Comforts of Home 3-2: Colliding Worlds 3-3: Living History 3-4: Gifts Chapter 4: Calindell Roads 4-1: Blue Girl 4-2: Toad's Story 4-3: Getting Along 4-4: Arledge Chapter 5: Under the Full Moon 5-1: Black Cat Inn 5-2: Corn Cat 5-3: Helpless 5-4: Story of the Opals Chapter 6: Prisoners of the Earth 6-1: Bitter Words 6-2: Kings and Constraints 6-3: The Shape of a Prison 6-4: Lightless Chapter 7: Bonds of Hardship 7-1: Differences of Opinion 7-2: Truitt's Tale 7-3: Strange Magic 7-4: The Black-Haired Man 7-5: The Evil-Hearted Monk Chapter 8: Shedding Light 8-1: Curses on Verses 8-2: Who Needs Keys? 8-3: The Sacrifice 8-4: Prayers Chapter 9: An Unequal Fight 9-1: Drawing the Curtains 9-2: Power of the Staff 9-3: To the Ends of the Earth 9-4: And Back Home

I got tired of drawing trees.
Which is unfortunate, since I’m so fond of how they look. And since my characters live in a forest.

For a while, the background to this was a photo, because I just got so sick of drawing flat little stick-figure trees. But fortunately I went to the art-supply store and found something new and interesting to experiment with. This was done on black paper, in white watercolor pencil and watercolor. Originally I got a bunch of watercolor pencils but only the white ones look good on black paper. But I bought two white ones and only a few others - I suspected that might be true.

I was inspired in this by the backgrounds of Earthsong; they look like pastels on black paper and they're quite pretty. Unfortunately I really hate media that smudge. But I found a way. The layout is very fluid in these first few pages. I’ll probably never have a set format, but I will continue to draw each page on a sheet of printer paper, portrait-wise. The previous page is a little shorter than the rest, and the next page significantly taller. I don’t know what I’m going to do with that one when I go to print a book.

A lot of more serious story comics have pages with not much value on their own. I’m trying to avoid this. In every script I try to provide information about the world, move forward in the plot, and entertain. Mostly this has been through humor. I don’t know how long I can keep it up, since I have not really done humor before, and the plot isn’t inherently funny. In fact it’s rather dark. But I’ve kept it up longer than I expected already, so here’s hoping!

Later:

The backgrounds are continuing to shift and change, and I'm managing to keep humor in the story. My formats have gotten even more varied - the comic I just drew had ten panels, the record! The story requires at least ten, and I think it looks good. I'm excited to be switching to a Monday/Thursday schedule so I can show everyone how much better I'm getting!