Poor cold Ine! 😂

As you can see, I originally had the first panel devoid of any dialog and just showed June’s hands writing. Then I remembered an important rule of comicking: always give each panel more than one job. So while the original panel served its purpose as an establishing shot, I added June singing softly to herself to remind readers that it’s getting close to Christmastime, as well as to share a bit of June’s character. It also makes for a slightly more interesting first panel. A pair of hands writing something may or may not seem that interesting to a new reader, but including the song lyrics tells more of a story.

Also I must say that CLIP Studio’s new ability to skew and rotate text is a godsend! It really makes things more dynamic when you can put a little slant on a character’s exclamation or on an important sound effect!