I don’t usually go this far in filling in the frames I make, since I find it easier to make the frames than figure out what to put into them, but this one’s an exception. I’ve added manuscript-esque rule lines, a spiffy little drop cap, and set some text from A Room With A View (A personal favorite and public domain.)

Detail on the upper left corner:

And the high-res version (pdf) if you’re really curious.

The rest of this series:
Part 1 (b/w and early color)
Part 2 (colored, no text)

Lately I’ve been going though my archives and playing with discards that I either lost interest in or worked my self into a corner and tossed into the “figure it out later” pile. I’m not sure what I was thinking when I originally started this, but I like where it’s going now.