Elliwiny: Speaking of reference images – Believe me, the palm trees were a point of contention! I was still living in Michigan at the time and had never seen one of the damn things in person. You know palm trees have like, beards that need to be trimmed? Anyway…

This is actually one of the first pages that I go on to re-work years later. I hadn’t really nailed Kyan’s face down and all of the bugbears were in these very button-up uniforms despite being off-duty… I try to live by “Done is better than perfect”, but first impressions are SO important!

Sincerely: Oh, right. For the redraw of this page it was kind of around the time when the blue/black vs white/gold dress was a whole thing. Elli sees black/blue by the way, and I see white/gold. So in honor of that nonsense I colored Kyan’s shirt in the colors I see on the dress