I took the liberty of re-combining Aaron's Black and White panels from the previous post--out of curiosity, but I kind of like how it looks. I hope this is all right, Aaron!
I really like this combination. It produces a much stronger evocation of narrative. As if two spirals become characters with the third element being the location or the like. Nice.
i'm curious how you did this. Did you take the second strip and paste it over the first with a 50% opacity? Cause that's what I suspect you did.
I tried this during my building of the original strips and decided not to use it. I liked how it showed the interaction between the two sets of spirals more clearly but at the same time I didn't like it as much aesthetically. Also, I felt it would take away from each set disappearing into it's corresponding background.
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I really like this combination. It produces a much stronger evocation of narrative. As if two spirals become characters with the third element being the location or the like. Nice.
ReplyDeletei'm curious how you did this. Did you take the second strip and paste it over the first with a 50% opacity? Cause that's what I suspect you did.
ReplyDeleteI tried this during my building of the original strips and decided not to use it. I liked how it showed the interaction between the two sets of spirals more clearly but at the same time I didn't like it as much aesthetically. Also, I felt it would take away from each set disappearing into it's corresponding background.