Okay, now I remembered what I actually wanted to write about in this post. How could I forget?!<\/p>\n
This chapter had some of the most difficult and at the same time enjoyable scenes that I have drawn so far in my life. Scenes I had both longed for and dreaded to draw for fifteen years … Yes, I’m talking about the make out scenes!<\/p>\n
I’ve drawn lots of other comics with somewhat romantic tones, like Eva’s stories<\/a>, but somehow there never really were any too detailed make out scenes. But\u00a0Driftwood <\/em>is such a relatively long comic that it would be a total disappointment if it would be just one make-out scene, in just one page or even just one panel (as is far too often the gravely disappointing case in far too many comics with a significant romance element — for just one example: damn you, Chocolat<\/a>!<\/em>). Not to mention that it would be unrealistic to have just one very brief make-out scene.<\/p>\n I’d always known that there would be romantic developments between Willie and Aeron at some point in the story, but up until last year it distressed me terribly — of all the people involved, I was probably the one who was the most embarrassed about it. :3 I recently moved, and as I went through my old sketchbooks, I discovered that I had written little comments like “oh god this is so embarrassing!!!!!” next to all sketches of even slightly romantic scenes with those two … V\u00b4(oo)`;V![\"Hogs](\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5219\/5416810248_615f5fb167.jpg\")
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\nTo get over that silliness, I started to fill out those DeviantArt memes<\/a> about love and romance. That was actually quite useful. (No, I won’t post them here …)
\nAnd once I actually got to the scenes, Willie and Aeron inside my head pretty much took over and showed me what to draw, so I didn’t have to think too much about it, just do my best to get it right.<\/p>\n