The Devil's Trill

UPDATE 1/2/23: Sooo, hey all. While I spent the first couple of weeks making art for Devil’s Trill and Knell like I planned, my actual two “break” weeks ended up being me recovering from COVID as well as worrying about family members who also got it. So yeah, it was quite a Christmas. x_x I am just now starting to feel physically normal again, but don’t feel mentally ready to return to comicking yet, so I’m taking one more week off to actually have legit rest time, so long as life remains chill for a moment.

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Comic updates won’t be happening in December, not only because I’ll need a break around Christmas, but because I’m making the beginning of this month a time of getting some promo art made for both The Devil’s Trill and Knell.

It’s hard for me to make art while making comic pages, and I thought that might be a good way to have some new art ready for the new year… if I have success with said arts of course, they’re always trickier for me than comic pages and I still don’t know how busy I’ll be, but I’d like to get ONE good one made for Devil’s Trill at least. XD

Anyway on to the cover – First off the “alway” is not a typo. The chapter title is based on a Stephen Foster song of the exact same name. Still using era-appropriate song titles for chapter titles.

So I guess that means we have a Chapter song!

Also when drawing this page I read that the tiered stand there would actually have an order to what’s put on them, like I think usually little sandwiches would be at the bottom, and at first the accuracy-obsessed side of me wanted to change it, but then I realized, this is at Florian’s house, and he would absolutely say, “Pile that shit from top to bottom with cakes”, only, y’know, in a more Victorian way. XD