I thought it'd be of some interest to show the little tweaks that go into a final toon. What I've got here are two versions of the same crowtoon.
The top is the final version. And the bottom is what I had up until a day before launch.
Can you see why I chose to make the changes that I did?
The spiky balloon indicates ‘animal-speak’? Also maybe… first dialog to the left?
Maybe?
Not so much animal speak as perturbed speech.
The most important change, I think, is lightening up the top left corner. In the lower (older) version the shading tends to draw the eye upward and to the left, into the least important part of the panel.
Shifting the speech bubble to the left also helps improve the eye flow pattern.
Yes indeed!