>>91301063Taeshi really went off the deep end with putting effort into the art. Sure, the proportions and perspective may be off sometimes, but during the watercolour era, she held herself to a schedule of at least a full page a day. That included sketching, inking, painting and dialogue on oversized paper. She's said before that she always feels like she doesn't do enough, and the strain of making pages like that must have caught up to her.
I remember Bagman exploring ways to make the art easier on her, going so far as to consider enlisting an artist friend of theirs to help with backgrounds or something, but in the end, simplifying the character models and returning to digital won out. Taeshi always fretted about not having enough buffer, so I guess that's why, since it seems a large buffer puts her mind at ease.
I don't have a problem with the art now that she's adjusted the chibi stuff a bit, but I do feel like there's too many filler scenes now. Maybe it was a good thing for the story that her art took so long before. That, and Suitcase should probably get more intimate with writing; I always felt that chapters always flowed better and informed more concisely than when he just did proofreading and editing.
