The Planet Krypton I think has more water than the Planet Mongo. It's a wetter world. Practically speaking, Krypton is very much wetter. Since I've taken care to put extra gesso on this globe, it also takes longer to dry and for it to be workable.
Learning from the lessons of Mongo, I've decided to make Krypton's colour palette considerably lighter. This will make for a more cartoony-loking world, which will please my client. However the lighter pigments I use cover the white gesso poorly, so I have to use more coats of paint, and you guessed it: drying time is thus multiplied. Lots of opportunity to snap pictures of my progress while I wait for the next layer of paint to dry - this is what you see in today's JSVB post.
Why is there red paint in my palette while the water is all blue? Because Krypton has a Red Ocean. Krypton and Mongo both have features that are a lot like Earth, but are somehow dialled up a bit to make them more exotic or romantic. We have a Red Sea, the Kryptonians had a Red Ocean. The Red Ocean is on the New World Continent Lurvan, on the far side of the planet, whereas we are looking at the Old World Continent, Urrika. The water in Urrika is The Boiling Ocean, which as far as I know is the only inland body of water on either Krypton or Mongo. Not many lakeshore condos on either world.
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