While plotting out the falling action for the end of this chapter, I made a list of all the important points that needed to be established and shown. Where were certain people? What is the next step for their character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Of all the hard pages to make in this chapter, this one was hard in a unique way. Over the past few years, due to the rising number of real-life violent school tragedies in my country, I’ve become extremely sensitive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One reason why I wanted to have the divided class working together by the end was to highlight just how irredeemable Ken is. It’s been mentioned a few times since this page released that cancer takes many forms and different[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I tried to make this scene as not-cheesy as possible. The “and they all get along now” ending trope is difficult to get just right without the writer coming across as a Pollyanna. It was, however, important to me that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As you can see, I’m still shading the characters even in normal light. This is the first time I’ve done this since page CVI. After the last few dramatic pages, going back to flat color seemed to ruin the visual[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…