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End of Year Show Plan

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Finished Pages

After I took separate photographs of all the pages I made, I vectorised them in Illustrator. I also added the dialogue into the speech/thought bubbles, and some onomatopoeias on the pages, to add a better feeling of what’s happening.

The comic book is going from left to right, from top to bottom.

This sequence is happening right after Zyonn (the masked character) defeated one of Madam DuClave’s (the female character) men.

For reference, as mentioned on Zyonn’s info sheet, he’s got Dissociative Personality Disorder (a second personality) which appears at the end of this sequence. I couldn’t figure out a way to make him look different, so I decided to use a different font for his thought bubble.

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Here are the original drawings for the 10 finished pages all together. I decided to draw them on A3 (2 pages per A2 sheet) so I can include more detail than if I was working small scale.

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I made some mistakes, like accidentally drawing, and inking, the wrong arm on the character so to fix that I had to stick a piece of paper over the part that was wrong and then redraw the correct part.

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I found and decided to use a website with mannequins that you can pose as you wish, which was very good reference for some of the more tricky poses in my comic. 

https://app.justsketch.me/

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Feedback

Jordan – joining as couldn’t meet yesterday. Shared screen . Working on finished pages, x 2 or 3 for show, character design sheets, not going to manage to make whole comic book. Planning 10 pages..make research clear and earlier work – also contemporary comic work like vic lee. New pens, great progress..shared screen so couldn’t make many notes – good to see such progress on research and drawing and also context – the world, character etc – design sheets looking good – to consider how best to show final set of work.

I figured out that I wasn’t going to be able to make a full comic book chapter by the deadline, so I decided to make 10 pages to show that I can draw action scenes, and that I’m able to make the actual comic, and not just simple character designs.

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I also decided to design some side characters, in case I was to include some in the comic. In the end I didn’t include any of them in the part that I made but it was good knowing I have them in case I need them.

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Character Sheets

After I finished drawing a close up and the back of every character, I used those along with the original, front facing drawings to make full character sheets for every character I designed so far.

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The original drawing of this character did not include the mast he wears most of the time, so I decided to include it in the close up drawing. However, I wanted to keep the nose out of the mask, so it was easily visible that it’s the same face as on the drawing without the mask, In the end it turned out way too busy crowded, with the nose, mask, goggled and horns all being separate elements, so I decided to cover up the nose to decrease the amount of different elements on the face. This also required a lot of details being added with a paintbrush afterwards.

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This is one of the drawings where I had to change the most, as I wasn’t happy with the face at all, I didn’t feel like it suited the character from the original drawing so I corrected it. This also required more work in Illustrator, as just filling in white spots wasn’t enough, I had to add more details with the painbrush by hand.

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I also decided to do a lot of little corrections like these to the drawings I wasn’t too happy with. First I moved around and warped some parts I didn’t like in Photoshop, and then I vectorised the images fixed up all the white/empty spots in Illustrator.

Few other examples coming after this.

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Character Size

Since I had the drawings of all characters on my computer already, and their heights written out on the info sheets, I decided that making a sheet with all their sizes compared to each other would be useful for drawing them together in the comic book.

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Character Info Sheets

Here are finished info sheets for all 7 characters I designed.

Unfortunately, due to the Coronavirus situation and the college being closed I don’t have access to a scanner, which resulted in me having to take photographs of my drawings instead, which after vectorising made them come out with various shades of grey instead of white on the background, but I just went along with it since it actually fit’s the aesthetic in my opinion.

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Character Info Sheets

I decided that making a character info sheet would be the easiest way to make the story make sense and figure out how to write dialogue for certain characters. I went through a few different character sheets to come up with my own one, that would include the information I need for my characters. The biggest one, at the bottom of this post, is my own one that I came up with.

Also at that point I figured out what font I want to use for my comic book - I decided to go with MV Boli. It looks comic enough to fit a comic book, and isn’t nearly as popular and overused as the standard Comic Sans font.