Song of the Eastern Sands: Page 04
Hardly a discount indeed! But she really wants that necklace, so there’s no telling what will happen next! Jerome’s expressions for the various characters are always fun to see come together, and Beck’s are no exception.
There are also some fun little details I love about the translation from thumb to final page. For example, in the thumbnail, the first panel shows that mid-range close-up of Beck’s outwardly-stretched claw. It hints at desire, maybe a slight compulsion. In the final page, Jerome actually hammed up the moment — and by adding that second snapshot panel of the ultra-close-up, you get the distinct impression that Beck might actually be thinking about stealing the necklace. Scandalous!
I’m in New Jersey today, at the Action Lab table (910) and at the Action Lab panel (at noon)! I’m getting ready to leave right as I type this post up, so if you see me today and go “Alex, that post you wrote today was really short!” Then my response would be “It’s because I needed to get here on time, and also I already wrote this exchange in the post, so this is very weird!”
Hopefully I’ll see some of you there!
This week for guest art, we’ve got another surprise bit of awesomeness from fishotterchen of Quinlan and Dakkan hanging out and having a good time! After the events of the last chapter, it’s nice to see these two goofing off a bit!
Thank you SO much for the artwork, fishotterchen! I have the softest of soft spots for things that involve our characters A.) Drinking with mugs and B.) Having a good time. I’m also partial to tavern scenes (which is why I’m looking forward to posting a great piece by Jerijune next week as well — you’ll all love it!) Thank you again, fishotterchen! We absolutely love how you do these two :)
great job with those expressions, Jerome! they always crack me up XD
And Beck’s reaction is almost exactly like mine when there’s also a sale (specifically, a Steam Sale in my case) when a really good game gets a really big discount, but I still can’t afford it… *cries in a corner*
Beck certainly is an energetic one. Mercurial, too, I’d say; just look at how suddenly her facial expressions change. It reminds me of this:
https://youtu.be/30rUL2oVlfI?t=43s
But I suppose most Lutren are that way.
I can’t wait to see the rest of the SOTES cast, or what happens next with Beck here. It’s also nice to see Quin and Dak as buddies after that walk through hell they recently endured.
Looks like Beck is going to be getting some of that 4 finger discount if that Tamian doesnt watch himself knowwhatamsaying*hurr*hurr*
Seeing fishotterchen’s artwork here just makes me hope that Quin and Dak will eventually be able to catch a break sometime in the future. It’s a crime, look how happy they were…LOOK AT THEM!
We can always lie to ourselves and say that will be Dak and Quin in the future; denial and hope are powerful things. :’I
“And they went all emo ever after.”
Fin.
I realize now that we don’t have a great sense of how much, exactly, one silver piece is worth in Nessa. Someone like me, in Beck’s place, would probably respond like this:
Merchant: “Three hundred silvers!”
Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPcwsJ2aYEA
One must ask themself, 300 slivers of what? Glass? Vase fragments? Stone?
I love the way Jerome draws expressions, but I find myself especially drawn to the way he depicts the paws.
Also I can’t help but laugh at that cross eyed Lutren in the last panel
Oh damn! He is crossed eyed! It’s actually just a brush stroke that went too thick. Need to change that.
Anyone would be cross….eyed at the mention of such a price.
Where is this cross O.o – I don’t see it O.o
You think your automatic translator is your friend, Jakub. But the automatic translator is NOT your friend. It lies to you, Jakub. It tells you false things. It doesn’t know how to reason. A machine without thought.
Someone who is “cross-eyed” is someone whose eyes are looking in different directions. Usually looking at each other. But the automatic translator can tell you that, no it cannot. It doesn’t not read the word “cross-eyed”, it reads the words “cross” and “eyes”, and translates things wrong. It tells you lies, Jakub. It tells you lies.
It Hurt – it hurt me, but Thank you theSillyzealot for your reply and explanation and remind me that not always translate good working and trnaslate (And I now that this is stupid machine, so when I translate on Internet translate, later I must improve and see how do I all mistakes – but what I do, that my English is still weak enough to write – Read alone I know how, and I understand it all ;) – I confuse just such words yet ^^;
Beck’s last face is my favorite part of this entire page, aside from the first two panels that convey all that longing. That’s me when I go Christmas shopping.
Gorgeous coloring and composition, as usual. x)
The biggest laughs I have with a young Lutern boy what his face looks like “LOL WHHHAT :O ?” XD – on last panel XD
Nice… teeth… your friend has.
I’m not surprised she is going to consider stealing that thing.
I’m surprised she was considering bbuying it in the first place.
Hmmm … She must be from Krakovian – that mean from Kraków, as me and the rest of the native residents of my beloved histoic city – Why? because we are like a small Scotland – well – we are not greedy; but we have a nose for business and money, on just what money don’t spend well-always save and 100 times we will explore and we can calculate how to wisely spend this money, and how is need to always strive to and we can haggle for a better price – like on last panel XD XD
Well, once again great page Jerome – really for me you are Anthro Van Gogh – you are master :D ^^
And so after that, I really wanted to prise this fantastic guestart – just I love it, I love this style of drawing, Dakkan and Quinlan are fantastically ndrawn – and so happy :D :D ^^ – I’m so glad to see their happy faces, especially after the completion of the last czapter, and this a terrible night – nothing to do, just drink good beer or Vodka with a friend and forget it ;)
Well… If discussion has died so quickly, we can hear music – Concerto for violin and creaky broken faucet…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIgMeyW4TEM
Such concerts just in Poland :3 XD
Happy Thanksgiving to all the folks who haven’t had it yet! I hope everyone eats plenty and makes it safely to wherever they’re going.
Thanks, Saraa! Happy Thanksgiving to all our amazing readers! May your dinner table conversations be mercifully free of awkwardness! :D
Aaaaah :D ^^; – I forgot that you have today or in next days Thanksgiving feasts I wish you all many health, happy and your dreams come true ^^ :D – Well in next Saturday we have St. Andrew feast (Old medevial feast ^^ – but from medevial to today’s always everyone go to great party, and traditionally we make old tradition
predictions ;) ) so I wish you this all wishes from okasion of Thanksgiving feast and St. Andrew feast :D ^^
…and may you be safe on Black Friday. Do not fall for the temptations of the Sale, my fellow Salmon Party members. It is not worth risking being trampled by a stampede of shoppers for a discounted item. Instead, watch the chaos unfold from the distance with popcorn and a large drink in hand. I know this is an… unconventional idea to some… but that, my friends, is a safer option.
Better still is to just lock yourself indoors all day. Do not venture out, not even for food, lest you fall victim to the stampeding hordes!
(Oh, and happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.)
What you mean abou what “Black Friday”? You mean abou terrorist attack in parish at 13 November – Friday?
(And Again happy Thanksgiving feast for you ;) )
No, Jakub. Think about a World War Z scenario going to a Wal-Mart or Target. Or Costco. or any other mall you could think of.
Ah ok ;)
let me help you with that, Vau:
“here we have the average Black Friday shopper… we have to go real slowly; they’re very aggressive this time o’ year…”
“slowly, camera guy…”
“see how they’re anxiously waiting for the store doors to open, and get the chance to purchase the item they want, for a fraction of its original price.”
*STORE DOORS OPEN AND A STAMPEDE STARTS*
“quick, we have to get out or we’ll be trampled by the hordes of shoppers!”
*some time later, in a safe distance*
“just look at ’em, trying to cram themselves into a tiny entrance… they’re really willing to risk it all for that discounted thing they want. some, however, might not make it out… this is a ‘survival of the fittest’ situation here, folks… I don’t know how this will turn out.”
*the day after the Black Friday Sale,, walking amidst the aftermath*
“sweet Tesque! look at all this… after all the chaos, this is all that stands.” *looks around in shock and awe* “it feels like one of those post-apocalyptic movies in here… well, my friends, chaos has unfolded here and has devastated this place. and we were there to see it.”
*National Geographic tune plays as the credits roll*
Regardless, it’s a great coincidence that Beck’s shopping enthusiasm coincides with the Black Friday craze.
Now I know what is Black Friday – again I feel now so stupid – and I’m so happy that there is not such like “Black Friday” – That is crazy XD O.o
Something I forgot to ask last time- where on the grading scale does amber with, say, a mosquito in it fall?
Beck’s hands in that fourth panel crack me up, as does the way she’s draped over the merchant’s table in next panel. She really looks young in the panel where she asks for the price- I’m assuming she’s even younger than Dakkan and Quinlan, even if she’s not quite a child or a teenager. Clever use of the feather in that reaction shot- it’s almost like a second tail there.