Interesting how you've used a much-blurred feel to the watercolor to gather in the atmosphere of the rain. Is it all traditional, or is some of the blur postprocess (computer?). This is evolving quite nicely and I do continue to look forward to further pages of what promises to be a rather interesting story.

It's all traditional; the only computer enhancement I do is to clean up the noise in photoshop levels to make it look nice onscreen. I do it all in shaded pencils and then add to it with black watercolor. I'm pleased that my rain effects came out well! And I'm glad that you are liking it so far.

Urgh, actually, I f---ed up the scan here (I don't deal with art and tech well, it seems). I've rescanned and replaced with a better version.

blurry, and it's not watercolor blur :( This and the previous one. I don't like the effect, intentional or not.

No, it wasn't; I think that the blur (which I managed not to see the first time :P) was a problem with my use of the new scanner. Thanks for letting me know; it's greatly appreciated.

I swear, if I could have anything I wanted, someone at my beck and call to deal with the technological side of getting my art on the web would be on that list. There's more than one reason I'm bucking the trend and doing a completely trad media comic.

Anyhow, I rescanned both problem pages, and the image has been replaced. Sorry, and I hope you like them as they were meant to be seen.

much better :) The climate is there all right. Awaiting development of action impatiently.

I had to re-read the whole thing! XP
Excellent and suspenseful! I can't wait to see the next few additions!

Thank you! Glad that you've enjoyed it!

At least the horses made it. Hauling a heavy load uphill on mud . . . well, that apparently was the end of many a horse, back when.

yep, it definitely was. I don't think that Hazyl and Russet would deliberately overwork these particular horses, and back on page 5 Danielle was mentioning in her letter to Amy that they stopped at a town for a few days to rest them. These guys have enough money not to kill the horses, which are a valuable matched team...oh, and they want to be able to get _back_ to Korfox at the end, too.

It was horses owned by the poorer classes, for instance cab horses, coaches for hire, etc. which were driven into the ground due to economic pressure.

(Just a silly detail, which I'll probably mention later, but those bays belong to Russet. They come close to matching his fur color. <G>)

Hee! He is a vain fellow, isn’t he?

Yeah, economic pressures. Makes sense, in a dreadful sort of way.

Russet is totally vain!

And yeah...between 'Black Beauty' and 'King of the Wind', you get a pretty good idea of wht horse care was like in Victorian England, the good and the bad. Both of them are brilliant beautiful novels that I have read x1000+, starting in grade school. ;)

I confess, I haven’t read either of them. But then I was never horse-mad as a kid.