Update notice, April 4th: Damnation, I have to go do something tonight so I can’t ink the next page until tomorrow. ;__; And then I’m going to Finland (of all places), so I’m not sure if there will be any new pages until April 18th. V`(oo)´V
April 6th: Even further postponed, until I have a moment of peace and can edit and letter the next page, which I actually, miraculously, managed to ink and scan just now. Maybe I can do that on the flight to Helsinki …? V`(oo)´;V

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Uuh, I inked this page in an all-nighter this Monday morning. I actually sketched the sail in panel 2, but then I forgot all about it when I inked. WTF. Seriously. V`(oo)´V
I’ll redraw it later …

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There is a Russian proverb: “Первый блин комом” – the first pancake comes out a blob. That very much applies to when I draw comics, because I need to “warm up” before my drawing skills flow properly. Either I can doodle around for a few minutes before I start sketching, or I can gamble and start sketching the first panel without warming up. With the latter method, I sometimes have to go back and redraw the first panel. Sometimes it comes out okay, and looks decent after I’ve inked it. In this page I had to redraw it.

Most of the warmup sketches obviously look like crap (that’s their purpose, after all – to be the blob, so the drawings in the actual comics page will only come out as perfect pancakes). These two are kind of fun, though: