Page 19 of The City Silent. There were a lot of false starts with this one, which I'll document later. Woke up this morning, or was I thinking about it late last night, I don't remember, where I thought of moving in for a close up then decided to go to Howard's hands instead of his face. I think they still tell a story and they're something different than I've done with the comic before. I tried to 'emote' with my hands while taking photos. I think it works.

That being said, there's something that I'm starting to re-think. It's the three fingered hands. When I started "Fite!" fifteen years ago, I was trying to emulate animation as I wanted action. Traditionally, animation uses three fingered hands because it's cheaper and quicker to draw three fingers instead of four. Or so I read. That being said, I can make it work with hands like these, ones that aren't entirely unrealistic and are less cartoony. But should I? It's a lot harder to leave one finger off, to redesign anatomy I don't really understand in the first place. Should I keep doing it? I don't know. When we get to Silas, he'll be using feathered fingers, so I don't know if it'll matter. I threw the question open on tumblr though I don't expect any responses there.