ROMB Chapter 6 Page 27

This new page was pretty hard to draw. People have to look consistently like each other, since they appear more than once in the page. But anyway, I had a swell time doing Kyung. He turned out really good in panel #1. Want to give him that nonchalant but controlled-violence feel with the draped jacket and noodle-slurping. Drawing the arms were the hardest. I need to stop drawing rubbery looking stumps and emphasize more on muscle+bone definition, memorise some important shapes, etc. I also seemed to have forgotten how to shade San's hair properly. Now it looks like....straw.... T_T

But back to the plot, I hope I'm not confusing anyone with all the mention of Taiping-Lin, SaiChuan, neutral zones and Northern gangs. Taiping-Lin is basically the Northern boys, controlled by Mr. Hoong (aka Old Man North). THey're just a fusion of all the small-time gangs up north in Oricon Bay. There's where the bad part of town is. SaiChuan, on the other hand, are the Chinese Triads in control of the most prospherous territories, e.g. ChinaTown and the city centre. I have not introduced any characters from SaiChuan at the moment, except the mention of one in San's Broken Arm flashback: Micah Lee.

So San spies Elijah keeping some bad company. Now maybe you'll understand what the chapter name means. :)

I'll be shifting scenes to Matt after this at the beginning of Chapter 7. Flesh him out a bit, then to Jem. Will probably intro Basil White too (San's GF Fighter). Then I'll pick up where Chapter 6 left off maybe? Something like that, not necessarily in that order. I'm just flipping happy that this scene is over. Ugh....drawing background intensive pages are really exhausting.

Next Stop: Chapter 7 Splashpage. Will try to churn it out fast to make up for the lack of update last week. Need to speed things along.

Okay, people, enjoy the page. If you find the need to say something and the shoutbox's not available, try the forums or just reply as Anon in here. Thanks for reading! :)