Here are some “inks”! Man did I struggle with Kyisha’s face in panel 2, I don’t know what it is about that angle and the eye on the opposite side of her face, that angle always gives me trouble. I ended up stylizing her eyelashes to kind of shield her eye and simplify the shape. Still not totally happy with it, and I’ll probably fuck around with it again when I revisit this page during the coloring stage, but for now I gotta move on.
Even looking at reference doesn’t really help, I guess part of it is that these characters have such simplified facial designs and if I add one too many lines to delineate their features, they look weird and not like themselves, if that makes sense. It’s tough to figure out where the realism should end and cartooning should begin and vice versa.
I always have trouble with that too. I cast a lot of otherwise unneeded shadows to avoid drawing that other eye. lol
It does kinda look like the one eye is closed but I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Page looks great tho.