Personal Project: A comic (Part 2)

With the story boards underway I started drawing the actual comic. This started well enough, however after an initial tutorial, I was told to rework aspects of the story, getting to point B from A was too fast. I needed to build up the character more and make him more empathetic. Give him some feeling.

 

 

Two pages from the dummy book, which was made to give a clearer outline of the story.

 

 

 

 

 

I started to experiment with the pages and not just use fine line work, but I didn’t really like how it turned out, it didn’t look as neat as I had envisioned. All though perfectionism is a slippery slope, I do think that the artist should try to still aim high. You know if your happy with a piece of work when you look at it, and this comic was not going in that direction.

 

 

 

Finally, I started over again, only this time I used ink and pen and tried to be more relaxed about the whole project. The ink was water soluble, which then meant I could run a wet brush over the drawings and add shading. I liked it.