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As the bus drives off,  roochak 's Genevieve glances up and notices the trolley poles. Briefly, she wonders how the vehicle gets its power without the overhead wires. Well, she never gets her answer as the Temporal Corps-modified vehicle boogies out of the scene in iconic fashion, minus one detail owing to the dismal weather. Meahwhile Nei'chelle is briefly distracted by the timeline-induced change in priorities, shifting from the garden she was preparing in a portion of the yard before the storm, to waiting for a local artist whom she has commissioned to arrive so discussions over some very naughty artwork can commence.

Technical:
As I mentioned on the previous page, I began using some custom rain effects brushes for Clip Studio Paint (CSP) to lessen the effort needed to render all that rain. You might have noticed that the first use of these brushes resulted in raindrops falling straight down rather than the slanted path they were taking in the previous pages. I was thinking about that too. I really needed the rain to be blowing around somewhat, and straight-down rain was kinda useless (which is why the rain in the close-up at the top-of-page was hand-drawn once again. I discovered quite by accident that the rain brush always renders rain straight up-and down with relation to the application, and not the image. What this means is all that's needed to tilt the rain is to rotate the image. The rain streaks will still look like they're going straight down, but when you zero out the rotation, they retain the angle relative to the rotated image. Voila! diagonal rain.

Another thing about those brushes. They were designed by a Japanese author, and natually the titles are Japanese text (they're auto-translated in the Clip Studio asset browser, so you don't know this till after you've downloaded the brushes). So how do you know what the brush names are once you've set them up in your tool collection? If you right-click on the tool and select [Settings of the tool], a dialogue box comes up with an editable name at the top. By default, the author's original tool name will be there, but now you can copy the Japanese text and paste it into Google Translate. In my case I added the English translation and left the kanji in parentheses in case I ever need to match it up with the original file in CSP's library.

Digital drawing done in Clip Studio Paint EX. 18 layers, including text objects. 26MB .CLIP file. Project ID# 261 (60-4) (Pg#89)
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