Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 4

I tried all those fancy brushes last page, and I honestly think I like the simpler look better: just the one brush, using cross-hatching for texture and in-between shadows. I’m interested to know your thoughts.

Here we have a big sci-fi reveal. Image below the cut:

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Image Description:

A black-and-white comic page with a single, full-page panel.

Three shadowed figures stand in the foreground, facing away from the viewer. On either side is a robed man with a shaved head and parallel tubing extending over his scalp. A socket sits at the back of each of their skulls, and they each wear a mask. In the center, a much taller man, also robed, his hair in a topknot and his ears long and rounded. He carries a staff decorated with a string of prayer beads.

Two stone pillars, scuffed with age, stand in the middle of the image.

In the background, the enormous statue of a pregnant bodhisattva sits on a raised dais. Her face is serene, her eyes closed, her legs crossed, one hand palm-up on her knee and the other raised with a forefinger extended. Her belly is glass, and inside sits a man in a fancy kimono, sitting cross-legged in an imitation of the statue’s pose. His hair is in a topknot with a crescent-shaped ornament, his ears are long and pointed, and his eyes are closed. Thin tubes emerge from behind him and connect to his arm; these are red. At the feet of the statue are two young women wearing white kimonos, kneeling and facing each other. Each has an arm raised, and thin tubing attaches to their outstretched forearms and connects to the statues; they are giving blood to the man in the pod. The dais has two levels, the upper decorated with circles and the lower with a pattern of lotus petals. Industrial tubing hangs from the ceiling and connects somewhere behind the statue.

Two more robed figures, wearing three-eyed masks and tucking their hands into their voluminous sleeves, stand at the base of the dais. They stand next to two large pots, each with five sticks of incense that send thin lines of smoke into the air.

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