Thread:BIONICLEToa/@comment-6548012-20160429104059

Hello Toa, how are you? Sorry for not being very active nor contributing much to Paragon Comics, but real life matters and a lack of inspiration didn't help me. Fortunately, I managed to get a little more motivated and start working a little bit. Anyway, I'm currently working on the layout of the comic (I know I'm not the editor nor the illustrator so that's not my job but this first issue's not gonna make itself if I don't) and long story short, I'm trying to test something.

But for that, I'm gonna need your help, if you accept my inquiry, that is. Could you please draw me a 6 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. (17.5 x 26.7 cm) “still” of Eugene, Oregon? At night (around 11PM), with less traffic than usual (there were around 120,000 inhabitants in 1994 (when the comics' events happen) and now there are somewhere around 160,000 inhabitants) during Autumn (the comic starts in October) with the trees slightly illuminated by the full moon (October 19th 1994 was the day of a full moon) and the roads & buildings glowing with a fierce orange - that would be great. I haven't seen you drawing any backgrounds, so I imagine this could be a good challenge, but I need to warn you about something&mdash;backgrounds are something people just look at for two seconds and then forget about it, so with that knowledge in mind, would you like to draw this for me?

If you need any references, here's an aerial shot of Eugene taken in 1990 by the US Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, that should help you have a basic idea, and when you've done that, you can just check the roads with Google Street View of the area you want to draw. If you can, please try to have the least anachronisms possible please :)

Thanks a lot, and have a good day.

Post Scriptum: I know I give a lot of information about color, but that's only to give you a perspective of what I'm seeing as the end result. If you want to draw with a pencil, like I have the habit to see you doing, go ahead, I'll take care of the lining, and if I can't do the colouring myself, I'll ask for Jaga's help. Thank you again. 