#tumblr why did you remove underline formatting? bold doesn't show up well on darker themes :(

[stagnant-water-comic]

Page 1 - Carrying Capacity ________ I do so love sketching freshwater environments.

Welcome to Stagnant Water, my new art project and first real attempt at a longform comic! This is a bit of an experiment for me, but I think it will be good to have a little storytelling practice. The style may change from time to time, but it's all my work unless otherwise stated. Thanks for reading! I hope you'll enjoy this story as much as I do.

A small note on formatting: While it may not be a strict standard, I plan on alternating each page's narrator/pov between the two main characters. Their dialogue will be color-coded, but I'll also make the speech bubbles different for colorblind readers. For reference: Quincy's text is purple with rounded bubbles, and Lya's text is orange with sharp edged bubbles.

note: this is a repost of the first page from my art blog because I'd like to keep things tidy. _________ [Start - you are here!]-[Page 2] _________

Image description under the cut:

[ID: A sketch-style comic page. At the top of the page is an illustration of a swamp shore with a sign that reads, “WARNING | ALLIGATOR TERRITORY | SWIM AT OWN RISK,” and depicts a simple icon of an alligator mouth and swimming figure. In the water is a vague silhouette of something that may be an open mouthed alligator or a log. Round purple text bubbles flow down the page and says, “There are no alligators in this swamp. The ecosystem cannot sustain such a large predator– they’re starved by competition– whose predation is much more comfortably attributed to the known danger of alligators.” At the bottom of the page is another illustration of the shore and sign, but the vague silhouette is revealed to be a log. The edge of a scaled shape is seen surfacing in the water. End ID]