Panel 1 of page 4 remained almost unchanged from the Originals to the color version. I like the doorman. In the written draft, I had him practically leering at Garanos to emphasize the fact that the townsfolk don't see too many strong, independant women like her, but I decided it was too much to associate all the subsequent animosity on gender. Just being an outsider was enough for Kaigan to dislike Garanos.

Many of these pages weren't inked or colored until many months after I'd drawn them, since I didn't have consistent access to a Photoshop-friendly computer from March 2005 to June 2005, and even when I did have a computer that wouldn't seize up anytime someone in the vicinity mentioned "Adobe," I'd sort of lost motivation for working on Garanos. When I got the bug again, I tried valiantly to make my Thanksgiving 2005 deadline, since I wanted to have my first comic ready for sale at the next Ohayocon. Alas, the summer drove on and I wasn't making fast enough progress, and my drive again fizzled out once school started. I was still working on Jigworthy at the time, too, so another comic project at the time was almost out of the question.

Anyways, my point was that I ended up redrawing and altering a lot of sketches in Photoshop, like Garanos' face on page 5. The original was pretty squashed-looking, which I blame on my skills at the time. I wasn't very good at foreshortening certain parts of the body, but between the sketch and the time I actually colored it, my drawing skills and comic sensibilities had improved.

The experience I gained by doing Jigworthy has proved pretty valuable to me. In the course of about 160 strips, I figured out on my own about things like speech bubble placement, and leaving room in a panel for dialogue to be so it didn't overlap anything important in the panel itself. One of the biggest things I'd recommend for those who wish to do comics is to wait before doing the one story you've been working on since you were five and love more than life itself. Get some practice with a gag comic, or another simpler type of comic, before starting your Magnum Opus. There's a lot to be learned before you start any masterpiece that can make it better than even you imagined.