#yellow su

[the-suit]

@ crispyoperatorflapfire 

Thank you for noticing! Yea @asterite100​ puts a lot of love into the details of this comic. Here is a close up of some of the gems!

[yuka-onuki]

Diamonds

[glydeart]

Here’s Yellow and Pink!!!!

i had too much fun with the backgroundss.

hope you like it~!!

(reblogs are always appreciated 💖💖😘)

[mittenmonster1]

i just really like blue’s face in this shot

[zeartpit]

Have an angry sour lemon for your dash. I miss her meme face.

[champs-art-world]

Redesigned Yellow Diamond Made her design more military/dictator like since I feel like thats what they were trying to do with her original one. and to add to that even more I gave her a cape instead of her open skirt. Also made her gloves thinner so that they dont look like rubber one to wash dishes with. Also changed the spikes on her hair to a garrison cap to further the militaristic look while keeping a similar silhouette.(which means her hair makes sense now) I changed her color palette, it's mostly the same but I just made it less saturated and darker sin some places to be easier on the eyes. This was pretty fun so I'm gonna redesign Blue next.

[the-suit]

Alternate Cut - Sketch by Asterite100

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Story Progression Update

Story Rough Draft : 78% (a lot of time this week went into research and brainstorming X_X’ )

Editing/Review of Story: 50% (Halted waiting on story finalization)

Story Revisions: 40-50% (May change depending on story finalization)

Story boarding art draft for arc 2: N/A (Need to finalize story as arc 2 plot points can be impacted by end of story)

Review Arc 2′s Art drafts: N/A

Begin Arc 2 Drawing: N/A

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So no behind the scenes this week as @asterite100 was kind enough to give us this beautiful sketch!!!

Make sure to check them out on all their social media. They go by asterite100 on almost everything.

Link to their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asterite100/

Next week we will see some storyboards from Arc 1. See you all then. =)

[the-suit]

Alternate Cut - Cutting Room Floor

Story Progression Update

(So I am expanding this a bit more give a more realistic time scale. This might seem like a lot, but most of it should be done quickly depending on everyone’s schedule. But I just wanted to give a better behind the scenes of how this kind of process works since that’s the whole point of these blog posts. ^_^ )

Story Rough Draft : 75%

Editing/Review of Story: 50% (Halted waiting on story finalization)

Story Revisions: 40-50% (May change depending on story finalization)

Story boarding art draft for arc 2: N/A (Need to finalize story as arc 2 plot points can be impacted by end of story)

Review Arc 2′s Art drafts: N/A

Begin Arc 2 Drawing: N/A

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So this week we will be talking about some things we decided to cut from the story!

While there is some things I wish I could discuss, unfortunately they would dive into spoiler territory so I can’t go really to much into that. (Maybe once we get to past that part of the story I’ll release those drafts.) But what I will discuss is some directions that I originally wanted to go but we decided we should not. 

Font Family

So one idea I originally had for the comic was to give everyone their own font.

The concept was to give each text bubble a voice. Typically in comic’s it’s just black text in a bubble. While that premise has existed for ages I wanted to spice things up a bit.

As part of the draft of this comic I spent hours (honestly probably like 8-10 hours hahah) researching and finding a bunch of freeware fonts to use for every character in this comic. I really tried my best to pick a font that best represented each character and would give them a distinguished voice. The idea being you know who is talking just by looking at the font, especially when they are off panel. I wanted it to be like a show, where you could “hear” a character by immediately seeing their font and being like, “That’s Yellow Diamond talking”. Here is a taste of some of that.

(Fonts)

(Panels using the fonts)

In the end we decided to scrap the idea. The problem came down to legibility. We wanted people all over to be able to read the comic, and fonts with a cursive or distinct styles may be to hard to read for some people. Other issues such as compression and size scaling made some fonts a bit to illegible. But we left the font color idea.

Was the time investment worth it? Probably not. But it was fun trying to find fonts that would represent everyone in the show! (Let me know if you want to see all the fonts I picked out hahaha)

It’s a musical!

Ok so hear me out, Steven Universe the movie is a musical right? (What?! It is?!) So I wanted to have some songs IN the comic. But that idea quickly went to the wayside as the logistics of that became hard to figure out. As we are designing this like a comic book and not like a web comic it would take pages and pages for all the lyrics of a song to be written out, not to mention figuring out how to write actual sheet music to go along with it. I enjoy writing poetry every now and then, so song lyrics would be a fun challenge. But I can’t find the time in the day to learn how to write music. Oh well. Maybe some other time. :)

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So that’s it for this week! I hope you all enjoy these little behind the scenes glimpses into the comic process.What do you want to see next week?

Would you all rather see alternate titles for the comic that went unused, some storyboards from Arc 1, or story boarding process? Let me know below!