Roofscape

This is one of my continuous background cartoons. It's a bit of a cheat this time as no characters are walking from frame to frame, but as it's essentially Smith sitting on a roof looking out over the Hastings skyline, the division of frames still works as a timing device.

This was taken from a photographic reference. One of the handy things about Hastings is that it's very hilly. Roads tend to follow contour lines, and it's perfectly possible to stand on one street and look down over the roofs of houses one block away. The other handy thing about Hastings is that it's riddled with twittens, footpaths and stairways - short cuts from one level of houses to the next.

Here's the photo the drawing above was based on.

It was taken from halfway up this flight of stairs on the West Hill, looking NW over the Ore Valley towards St Helens Woods (of which more will be seen in the summer) and the High Weald of Sussex. Of course this is nowhere near the post-war bit of town Smith and Jones actually reside in, but I wanted this strip to be a bit more interesting in its architecture. Therefore we can see the Victorian houses in the foreground, graduating to the gingerbread Edwardians in the middle distance and then the red roofed 1930s semis in the distance.

The photo was actually taken in February, so I've had to improvise the foliage.