Blacklion - JFT: New Sensations | Page 3 - WIP

Page 3!It's time for Pino the lion to make his entrance! We pick up right where we left off in the previous chapter, with Pino trying to adjust and hide the rather obvious erection caused by Dave's story over the phone.

He's still completely unaware of the effect he's having on his colleague Luca, so he casually walks inside and heads for the staff changing rooms as if nothing had happened.

Meanwhile, Luca is still hiding behind the shelf, visibly flustered and struggling to deal with his own excitement!

This page was fairly straightforward to put together. For the storyboard, I opted for four large panels, giving the characters plenty of room to move around and interact with their surroundings.

I wanted the action to flow naturally, while making sure the reader could clearly follow what was happening in the supermarket.

When refining the sketch, I focused on making the second panel more dynamic. I pushed the perspective a little to draw more attention to the wolf and emphasize the movement of the scene.

As you can see, I like to keep different elements organized on separate layers, using different pencil colors to distinguish them. I usually use green for perspective guides, blue for the characters, and red for details, sound effects, and other visual effects. This makes it much easier to keep track of everything while working on the sketch!

There weren't any major changes during the inking stage, so I mostly followed the refined sketch.

However, this is also the stage where I have to figure out how the characters interact with their surroundings. Since I don't use lineart for my backgrounds, I need to pay particular attention to how the characters overlap with objects in the scene.

The same challenge continues during coloring. I usually keep the characters — including all their lineart, color, and shadow layers — above the background layers.

But what happens when a character needs to hide behind something, like a product on a supermarket shelf?

Instead of reorganizing the entire layer structure, I create small background patches on layers above the characters. These patches cover the parts of the characters that should be hidden behind the objects, making the interaction look natural without turning the layer stack into a mess.

It's a simple solution, but it helps me keep the workflow organized and gives me much more control over the final result!

Once the characters and background are properly integrated, I can move on to the final touches, bringing everything together with shadows, lighting, and the page layout.

The lettering and sound effects then help reinforce the rhythm of the scene and make the characters' movements and reactions easier to read.

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