Another proponent for "naked hands"...

More progress... albeit slow and cumbersome.
This current fight scene is in it's finishing stages and all the players are in position for the finale. The next 3 or so pages will be fast and furious, with little or no transition to break up the brutality... so I just wanted to establish character positions one last time before just zooming in on the two main combatants. The young Girl is trapped between her fear of the nearby violence and her revulsion towards the crippled and dying Director, who in turn is now in the right position for the coming denuemont.
These sort of "set-up" panels are the hardest to pull off because they require a great deal of information about the environment as well as the characters involved. The final panel shows the figures in relative positions... and this becomes a bit important later on in order for the story to flow well. We'll just have to see how it all turns out...

Life in general is in a stall right now as I battle my bank over a balance discrepancy and I lack extra funds to simply run around and enjoy myself. I suppose that it helps to motivate me to work on the pages, out of default... but it doesn't exactly put me in the sweetest of moods to know that I haven't any choice in the matter.

Well... it's back to the grind now...
Damn,.. I just wish that I'd refrained from putting friggin' gloves on the Director's hands now. The hands in the panel where he's on his back looking up at the Girl came out very well... and I am no longer as pleased with the rendering now that I had to put those goofy-assed gloves over them for continuity.

Crap.