Hats and caps

This is actually an older drawing (ca. November last year) which I did because of the trouble I had with, well, drawing hats (I know, preferably you do this before you start drawing a comic). While there are a lot of historical pictures of hats floating around the internet, I still was not entirely sure what it would look like when you put them on your head, so I watched some period pieces in order to see how to wear Regency hats - mostly Austen or Austen-related stuff, even though I am not really a fan of this kind of stories.

 As for the four ladies, each one carries two hats and a night cap with her, except for the maid Betty who only  has one rather plain hat and a night cap. Jane's hats are adorned with flowers, Mary's are decorated with feathers and Henrietta's are fur-trimmed.

Most of the hats depicted above are taken directly from fashion plates published around 1811.

Carriage design

Edit: New version uploaded.

A few days back I finally made a little concept study of the carriage in which the ladies are travelling - something I really should have done right from the beginning. It's nothing spectacular but now I should have a good grip of how the carriage is actually supposed to look like.

Page 6 - Ink & Text

It has been an awful lot of time since the last update and I don't even colour the pages right now (but will do so eventually). Anyway, at least there is finally some action going on - even though poor Mr Heart probably would have preferred otherwise.
One of the advantages of having a flatmate who at the moment is doing her state examination in dentistry is that one picks up some bits about medicine here and there. This way I learned that a sudden, unexplained pain in the left arm is a good indicator that one suffers the beginning of a heart attack. Always good to know - not that knowing what is happening to him would have been of any help to Mr Heart, being in the middle of nowhere.

Well, not entirely pleased with the scanning of the page; thus, I will probably scan it again and upload a new version over the next few days.

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Page 5 - Ink & Text

Since it allows me to get on with the story faster, I decided that for the moment I will only upload the inked and lettered version of each page. They will not be left this way, of course, (I love colour way too much to do such a thing!), but the process of colouring takes up quite a lot of time. Therefore, I will come back to do this at a later point when I have more time on my hands.

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Page 4 - Ink & Text

Several things have been keeping me busy during the last months, but here is finally the inked and lettered page no. 4!
The novella dear Jane is refering to is "Undine" by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Maybe it is worth mentioning that her less romantically inclined companion Henrietta is indeed right with her assumption about the Knight Huldbrand's character as he dumps his unusual wife for boring Bertalda.

Page 3 - finished

Finally the third page, which took me longer than expected due to the swan's detailed plumage.
Also, words, at last, after some completely silent first pages!
The witch the lady with the vivid imagination is talking about is, of course, good old Baba Jaga.

And in case it is not entirely obvious, the little bird is supposed to be a robin. Much sweeter than the nasty swan. It might be worth mentioning, that I find the scary and wicked portrayal of the swans in "The Magic Swan Geese" much closer to reality, compared to other fairy tales. Seriously, they must be one of the most scariest birds in the world. Too bad, one can not hear this one's hissing.

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Page 3 - Ink

While working on the coloured version of this page (which will be finished soon) I realized that I haven't yet uploaded the inked one. So, here it is.