Monster concepts, my background palettes, and some early color tests for my original Webtoon pitch. I'm not great at creature design so it was daunting to come up with the monsters for this comic but somehow I ended up liking the early sketches I made. Some are very cursed tho

Having simple, reusable bg palettes is a huge help taking out some coloring guesswork. Weekly comics are brutal to produce to anything that can help streamline is important. Also mapping settings and figuring out visual direction is SUPER important for explaining action

More bg refs from Street View. Some of these are much closer to the ref images I used but there's still a lot of adjustment to get the visual information to work with the layout of the super narrow but tall resolution of a digital scroll comic

Last page of concepts for Yuna & Kawachan. These were some rough color guides I made for my friend @samikerwin who helped with flat colors in the last few eps. The bottom left was me asking my editor how the final panel should look so it really makes me smile looking at it