Desperation, mostly! I was looking at the bits I'd sketched in Illustrator and thinking "what the hell am I going to DO with these swords?". I didn't want to have them hanging on a wall because I wanted the setting to remain ambiguous; putting them on a wall put it inside and that didn't feel right.
It was 2AM, I was still kinda groggy from a long day, and inspiration just struck. Put 'em in balloons. Change them from 'real' swords to more symbolic ones.
As to the earlier version - nope, sorry, it's been saved over. There was some red and green here and there that just muddled the message, the left figure was about 1/8 of an inch to the right, and the sword just to the left of her was angled left, instead of right. A bunch of little changes that fixed niggling little errors.
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Date: 2008-04-27 04:40 pm (UTC)It was 2AM, I was still kinda groggy from a long day, and inspiration just struck. Put 'em in balloons. Change them from 'real' swords to more symbolic ones.
As to the earlier version - nope, sorry, it's been saved over. There was some red and green here and there that just muddled the message, the left figure was about 1/8 of an inch to the right, and the sword just to the left of her was angled left, instead of right. A bunch of little changes that fixed niggling little errors.