THE REAL SUPERHEROINES OF HIVE VALLEY

a webcomic, by Matt S. Law

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Oh, no! Worst case scenario. The villainesses are starting to bond! That will make them a force to be reckoned with.

This page was a lot harder than it needed to be. Mostly because I did all the ink on a single layer. First I drew the background, the stairs and prison bars, then the figures. Except that one figure is in the foreground (easy) but the other two are in front of the stairs but behind the bars, so I have to be a lot more careful which lines I am deleting to not make an arm floating in front of the bars.

Fortunately, I learned a trick in Clip Studio Paint, where I started drawing all the line art in vector layers, then later with a vector eraser, you can actually just delete a portion of the line until they intersect another vector line.

I'm not sure if that made any sense. Okay, here's a quick tutorial on using vector lines:

Let's start with this happy head:

And say I want to draw another happy head behind him:

Artist tip: It is easier to draw through a line then to stop and start on it. But in the old days, it would be super hard to erase those line fragments using a bottle of white out.

But with the vector eraser tool (set to "erase up to intersection") you just swipe the line fragments.... and....

Poof! line fragments erased. Much easier to make clean lines with vectors. Also, has the added value of being able to enlarge or shrink the line art to any size without losing any resolution.

This has been a public service announcement.

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Boilerplate:
The Real Superheroines of Hive Valley is a webcomic about a reality television show following the lives of seven public domain superheroines that all live together in the same mansion in the elite community of Hive Valley.

You can read the series from the beginning ---> HERE.

Created in Clip Studio Paint Pro on my mobile art studio which is a Microsoft Surface Pro 7+. Here is the time lapse video:

https://rumble.com/v6ysxq6-real-btches-ii-panel-15.html?mref=18dagn&mc=d3obe