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I find myself returning to the smoke and dust clouds when I look at these pages. It is in fact somehting that can grow quite large in scale but yet one must remember to take care of it’s delicate etherial surface. Here on page 10 the first panel shows a far wall of  a dust in the a far distance across the excavation pit. I notice that in the effort of providing volume and shadow to these shapes I came to make their outline look think and heavy. This goes against a general inking principle that dictates that one must use thicker lines in foreground and thiner lines in the background. The same rule is broken to some extent in the center access road which connects the street level with the lower excavation level. The cast shadow of this sloped road also makes it look to much like an outline and thus brings it forward in space.

Notice pannel two’s dust cloud is more successful. The last panel has a hidden secret in it. Inside the dark space in the top center. Looks like some little white dots in the darkness. What could that be?