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... When I finally got back to it, I started laying down speed lines for the clock. I attacked it as though it were a comic-book illustration and I liked the feel of it, but the effect didn't quite match up with what I had established initially.
... Maybe I was a bit too hung up about it but I didn't want to have speed lines in a painting. As if there are "rules" against it! (Coming soon: a "painting" with speed lines!)
... My solution was to fill the air with smoke. Where is the smoke coming from? Candles? A raging fire? Are they battling this clock in a towering inferno?
...Nah. Give the monkey an uzi! Put a couple of bullet holes in the clock! There we go. A couple of props dropped in and it starts to be a story. A good story? Who cares! It's a special effects extravaganza!
... Just to confuse the lighting situation I put little running lights on the monkey's gun-- that was probably a mistake, but that's what you get when you have no plan and start improvising.
