O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-4/

Let’s start talking about the color palette! The red on this page is related hue-wise to the flashback color palette, but this red is exclusively for dramatic effect in the blue “future” sections.

Also, uh, RIP Al, sorry.

O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-3/

The context for the note (and the fight) we’ll get later in Chapter 5 was something I’d decided before I started drawing the comic, and stayed pretty close to the original outline! The story grew in quite a few ways, but a few major beats were always there.

O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-2/

What I distinctly remember about working on this chapter is that I did not discover’s Photoshop’s “press shift and click to draw a straight line” trick until I was halfway through. You can definitely tell looking at these early pages.

O Human Star rerun! http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-page-1/

Here’s the first appearance of what readers started calling “the blue fairy,” though I never gave her a name and she’s more influenced by Alphonse Mucha illustrations. Totally works thematically, of course!

Let’s begin the O Human Star rerun! 

http://ohumanstar.com/comic/chapter-1-title-page/

I drew the first page when I was 22 and I’m trying to take comfort in the difference between my art here and the final page I drew when I was 30. I grew a lot!