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<title>Chapter 7, Page 17</title>
<description><![CDATA[Yes, it's another update, at last. I still haven't fully rested from the other comic project I was doing but I thought I've delayed this webcomic long enough. And so I sort of forced myself to finish this current page.

I feel it could've been better but I just wanted it done. There were things I couldn't quite do that I was able to do in the previous pages mainly because it involved the settings I had in Painter. And since I had to reinstall my PC along with Painter and not having saved the settings, I had to fiddle around with the settings again just to get to what I was using before. The frustrating part is, I couldn't duplicate the old settings. So, I had to make do with the settings I've come up with now.

Down the road, I may have to tweak the settings a bit more. Hopefully, I'll accidentally rediscover the old settings I was using in the previous pages.

Also, the style I've used in this page is slightly different from the style I've used a few pages ago. The style is something I sort of picked up while doing the Prey short comic. I think doing the earlier style I had was easier and faster to do so I'll switch back to that in the next page.

Anyway, hope you guys enjoy the new page.  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<link>http://www.drunkduck.com/Lovarian_Adventures/?p=108537</link>
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<title>Chapter 7, Page 16</title>
<description><![CDATA[I'm back to updating again after three weeks of doing another comic story. Here, Lili takes flight in a bid to catch up with the Sylosians who had taken Fr Sephriel and Sir Mendoran a few pages back. Not much to say about this page really other than that.

I did employ some of the newer techniques I've picked up while doing the other comic which was good. You learn something new everyday.

Hope you guys like the new page.

[b]Update:[/b] I'd just like to explain why Lili didn't use the flight spell before jumping into the waterfall. I knew that there are people who are going to be asking about this but I didn't think I need to explain myself until my brother actually asked the question. 

Well, wizards in Lovaria just can't cast spells one after another indefinitely. So, wizards have to use magic sparringly. Lili only found out for sure that she was outside the cave after she had jumped into the waterfall. After that, she knew she could cast a Flight Spell (that has a limited duration of effect, by the way) in an attempt to catch up with the Sylosians. 

If she had cast it while still inside the cave and flew through to the other side of the waterfall instead, she better hope that the other side did lead to the outside or she would've wasted a Flight Spell. Of course, the likelihood of the other side of the waterfall being the outside was high, she rather chance jumping into the waterfall which she thought was a pretty safe thing to do anyway.

Or... maybe I should just give you a super simple explanation: Lili haven't thought of using the Flight Spell until after she jumped. Ah, well.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.drunkduck.com/Lovarian_Adventures/?p=97343</link>
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<title>Chapter 7, Page 15</title>
<description><![CDATA[Delayed again, I know! I have a different excuse this time and it's not because I'm getting tired of drawing comics. So, no need to fear... yet. Apart from working on another short comic (around 10 pages) that I need to finish before October, the delays were caused by me caring so much about the final result of the page. Panel 1, it took me a while to work out how to show that they are in the mouth of a cave being blocked by a waterfall. Panel 2, I tried different poses of Lili jumping for it but I ended up with the one you see here. In the end, I just said to myself, "screw it!" I just drew those two panels to the best of my ability last weekend even though I wasn't completely satisfied with them. I figured I could doctor it up a bit when the time comes to add in the shading bits in Painter. Meanwhile, in Panel 3, research on how the waterfall exterior should look like and figuring out how to render the waterfall also slowed me down. And like in the first two panels, I decided to just go and draw it and be done with it.

I hope you guys still like it.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.drunkduck.com/Lovarian_Adventures/?p=87695</link>
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<title>Chapter 7, Page 14</title>
<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the delayed page. This would count both as last Sunday's and this coming Sunday's update.

As for the page, it's back to the three heroes inside the cave. I should think of an even faster way to shade things. Shading the cave, though not so difficult, was a bit time consuming. I'm pretty happy with the outcome of the first panel at least.

[url=http://ponju.net/index.php?showtopic=49158]Non-DrunkDuck Comments Here[/url]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.drunkduck.com/Lovarian_Adventures/?p=83084</link>
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<title>Chapter 7, Page 13</title>
<description><![CDATA[2006/08/20: The original plan was to leave Sephriel's speech balloons empty to show that sound doesn't get out of the carriage. It's an enchantment, in case you're wondering. But, to avoid explaining it in the future, my wife told me to put in words in there anyway. As a compromise, I made it into mumbling sounded words and faded it to imply that the words are barely heard.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.drunkduck.com/Lovarian_Adventures/?p=79410</link>
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