Inks, then color with Illustrator. Yah... he's a distraction.

More of these...

Just some quickie designs between Tamino pages.

And here's the next quartet. I am getting very close to the end of the comic. It's within sight though there is some really complex imagery coming up. I just know it, even though I haven't designed it yet.

STILL wasn't satisfied. Also, having designed the next quartet, I realized the last page wasn't going to work. So redrew that and recolored the whole thing. I think it makes more visual sense now. The old version was chaotic and didn't flow. Don't know what I was thinking.

The next four. The device of the open book pages was appropriated from Kunisada though I don't know if he was the first to use the device or even the only one to do so. And when I saw it in my book on his prints, they only showed up in ads he did for cosmetics. Perhaps the pages denote something like having the words, "PAID ADVERTISEMENT" below the photos. I don't know. But I have a reason for using this convention and for focusing only on Tamino's head. So there.

EDIT: Did some work on these as it felt too bare.