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IDW #71 page redraw

Redraw of the scene where Tangle visits Whisper, after just about everything goes to heck. We mostly wanted to practice (relatively) on-model design and play around with panels and perspective some — the light coloring was just a bonus. We meant to ink everything afterwards, but didn't get around there. Still, we're really happy with the lines here, and we had a lot of fun putting this together!

newgrounds (2024-12-15)

GLAD YA LIKED IT LOL
#71 is a blast
This is just a pencil sketch rly but we started redrawin one of its pages yesterday

Love how Tangle’s kinda hugging/cradling her tail like a pillow instead, definitely something she'd do

YEA. Beanbag lookin creature is what I called her yesterday LOL

try as i might, i am unable to refute that
she's a very huggable beanbag creature is all

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuup

Also seeing that specific page again reminded me of how I thought the window was a decoration of sorts and that they were implying that whisper's a space nerd

I may have forgotten that they're on a plane lmao

Yea real honestly. I forget but I think there was another page for us that had the same effect

Just like ohhhhhh right theyre like 43000 feet off the ground rn, cool.

yup and for some reason instead of making that conclusion, my brain had thought it was more logical that they were back at the restoration, so that meant that everyday they went to some far corner of the world, returned to the restoration (wherever that is), then went to the opposite corner of the world by tomorrow, repeat

YA right LOL

One 'sec. Ebooks bless u
The scene on the right was sorta ambiguous before, but Im pretty comfy sayin its their place on the shuttle

Well I guess the part where they mightve lifted off between "yesterday evening" and "today early morning" does help LMAO -

But I mean that its clear now that peeps have got their own rooms

Isnt it a bit fricked that Whispers room is so dead empty by the way?? Thats what we wanted to get at with this panel

now that you've mentioned it...
yeah holy shit
her room has her cloak
and a
crate
damn that's depressing

Yea!!!!!!!!

Long sigh
Unfortunately this gives even better Character Credence back to irremnant winter

The final room, of course, is Whisper’s own.

This one she enters silently. Tangle follows close behind.

...And draws in a gasp, faced with a sudden realization by this similarly ordinary-looking sleeping quarter.

“You shared a room with Mimic...?” Her question trails. It’s not much of a question, really.

Whisper doesn’t answer. She only sits on her cot.

The wolf’s side of the room is decorated. Not too crowdedly - it’s a small place and they didn’t have much ordinary stuff to go around - but it looks like hers. Or... a younger hers, Tangle reasons...

There’s a big poster showing the cover of an album the lemur doesn’t recognize - a lone rock-star guitar rendered in detailed ink lines, leaning on the side of a house, wrapped up in flowering vines. There are rough portrait sketches of each of the old Diamond Cutters: Smithy, Slinger, and Claire in a row, with Mimic and Whisper beneath. And there are words, inked in cursive directly on the wall, just where Whisper’s eyes would meet as she lays to fall asleep: “Stay close. Take care. Remember.”

Mimic’s quarter is barren. Just by contrast with Whisper’s, it feels even emptier than the ones in the other building. A lone color photograph sits on a nearby dresser. It’s taken from a sort of odd, high angle in the rec room; everyone’s at the round table, cheerfully sharing some meal that’s larger than had been usual.

A strange wave of cold washes over Tangle.

“Is it - okay if I sit, next to you, Whisp?”

I dont think weve written about wolf ladys room at restoration HQ before, but we did put some stuff about Lanolins

It’s only a little bigger on the inside. There aren’t any walls to fence each space off. A conspicuously large mattress occupies most of one half of the room, set flat on the floor; against the opposite wall is a double bunk-bed. It’s not too challenging to figure the sleeping arrangement, here; but at Whisper’s voiceless call, Pink, Cyan, and Green lay it bare, each shuttling or poking around its partner’s old bedding.

“Reminds me of the rooms back in the Restoration,” Tangle observes. “I mean, no surprise, I guess. I kind of expected it to be more… lived in, though?” There’s not a sign of a poster, painting, or other decor at all. Each bed has just an ordinary grey sheet, pillow, and blanket (all sized up for Smithy, of course - but that’s all). It’s quite the contrast to, well, any of the spaces that Tangle makes her own.

Whisper nods. “Wonder if they ever thought about it. Had their own spaces in the base, but…” She looks around. It’s just beige and grey.

“Kinda like Lanolin’s room, actually.”

“Hm?” The sudden mention of the sheep sets a range of her nerves at attention. There’s a weird mix of feelings from the automatic image of one of her… new team members, in this room, beside her.

Though - Tangle fits that description, too, and she really is here…

“Just that hers is really plain, too. Don’t get me wrong! I don’t judge her for it. But like, what’s goin’ through her interior decor thought process, y’a know? Does she even have an interior decor thought process…?”

“She’s focused.” They haven’t worked together for long, but Lanolin expresses who she is and what she does quite clearly. “Threat of war keeps her that way. Even when there’s no conflict at hand.”

Yea this is probably why we fixated on Whispers room in #71 LMAO

Honestly we havent brainstormed a lot about bedding or residence at the restoration. There are a couple'a ideas floating around and one or two of em might be canon, but not a lot of specifics, besides what we put about Lanos here, and whatever ya wanna draw from Tangles reactions to both this room and Whispers space.

surge, discord