Things look very lovely and peaceful. Something must be dreadfully wrong.
Where I grew up, I lived about half an hour from a neighborhood of beautifully maintained Victorian houses. The owners kept them up in the original tastes, with brightly-colored paint and old-school shingling on the roofs. Their houses showed up in books on Victorian architecture constantly; there was one with lavender and pink trim that was especially memorable and not nearly as garish as it sounds.
This house isn't Victorian, though. The style's called Queen Anne, and it was popular around 1900. When you moved to Yakima at the turn of the century and made a fortune farming, this is what you built.
Just saying.
But hey, since you've read this far: The second round of Webcomic Idol is underway! Please keep voting, I'd really like to stick around for at least another week.
And this week's vote sketches are more Secret Project nonsense: A scene from the original, two-year-old roughs I'll be ditching, on account I'll never be able to convince anyone that I didn't steal the idea from Bioshock. Oh, well.
I draw FBI headquarters a couple weeks back in my comic and it drove me crazy with all the straight lines I had to do, plus I ignored all the buildings around it.
Then you draw a spectacular house with bushes and trees and a proper background.
So, take this as praise however possible, Spike - you make me feel unworthy as a webcartoonist. ^_~
Sorry if I have you mixed up with another artist, but didn't you say you hated drawing architexture? Then you go and spit out something as pretty as this.
I consider architecture, and cars my primary weaknesses, and i find drawing both of 'em very tedious. But I've drawn the former so much in the past two years that i think my grasp of it has improved.
I abolutely love the trees and shrubs and stuff. Beautiful page. The stars fading down makes it feel really cinematic.
Why do all the windows look like they have blackout curtains?
Yay Washington!
I understand how you feel about architecture and vehicles, Spike, though I'm the exact opposite. I love mechanical stuff, but keep getting complimented on my organic stuff.
Aaarchitecture!!!
The lines!! They're so straight!
Can I just say 'Oh shit! I feel so dumb'? This is maybe my third time back to look at this page and I finally noticed the name on the mailbox. I must have been distracted by the pretty, pretty architecture.
You must be doing something right, because the scenery of Templar, the archetecture and the statuary, is part of the reason I can't let this webcomic go.