Page 2, Version 1 -- A Moai Outrunning A Ball of Fire

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I’ve moved on to page two of my third children’s picture book. Here’s a new character, Tupa Moai. He’s just a kid, and, as you can see, he’s alive and running from a nasty ball of fire. Usually people think of moai as being giant statues carved of volcanic rock, but in this story, moai are very much alive. Unfortunately, most of them are have been turned to statues by a vicious volcano spirit.

I started this picture in Krita, but switched to Clip Studio Paint when I ran into some of Krita’s deficiencies. I’m talking about Krita’s selection tools. I suppose there’s a warp tool in Krita somewhere, but I couldn’t find it. Rather than waste time looking for it, I went back to my ever faithful Clip Studio Paint EX.