Alex is a Pirate - Edge of the World 06

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Hello! Welcome back! I enjoyed my break; how about you?

I changed something in the making of this comic... maybe you'll notice it?

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OK, what I did differently was I worked out a way to scale my comic up by a lot. Normally I draw on 8.5"x14" sheets of paper, with the ultimate intention for it to be printed on 5.5"x8.5" paper (perfect mini-comic form!). This is mostly because the scanners I have to work with are either Legal or Letter sized, so I figured that was as big as I could draw it. However, it recently dawned on me that I could work at 11"x17" scales... albeit split up over several 11"x8.5" sized pieces of paper. Since I usually stick with my 2x3 frame format, it's easy to print two framed sheets scaled for 11"x17" onto a sheet of 8.5"x11" piece of paper, then draw a single comic page on three of those sheets. Now while I'd RATHER have an 11"x17" scanner... until I can buy one, this'll do nicely.

TL;DR: I figured out a way to draw at larger, 11"x17" scales using Letter-sized paper and scanners. Hopefully this'll help the quality of my end product a bit.