New page first look: Android Blues 101
Here's the next page in my graphic novel, just finished, and premiered exclusively on Steemit.
Last time we left our heroine she was trying to make contact with Elvis, a shut-in addicted to virtual reality games.
Here's the process: first I place text on the page, moving the bits around and continuously editing it for days or weeks.
When I think I'm getting closer with the wording and the placements, I start sketching.
And gradually try to refine the sketch.
Then comes the inking
And the final colored version (right-click View Image to see higher resolution):
Previous pages:
Here
Next pages:
Here
First page:
Here
Wow, great to see the entire process from sketch till end.. Bizar how it evolves to a real story line with great drawings... Great done !!
Thank you!
You're very welcome...
Amazing work. So, are you still writing the story... or do you have it finished already and are simply drawing it?
Thanks!
I have the overall arcs mapped out in short-hand, with some key scenes briefly described. I have no idea how many pages it will make though, because it's not until it's time to start a new page that I actually flesh out the synopsis.
I usually try to stretch or pad the action out a bit, because I've noticed if I don't do that I tend to jump too fast through stuff, not giving the reader time to experience it in real time, like watching a movie. It becomes more like a trailer or back-flash. I also sometimes add whole scenes, or make changes.
Very interesting process. I have to admit I could use a few more planning in my work. I usually start things without a plan... And sometimes that comes back to haunt me! 😂
Great work, and i love the steps you did for making this pages :D
Very good, and i feel bad for the characters :c
so much for them and my heart :c
Thank you!
Why are you so amazing?
I'm glad this comic is getting more continuation again.
lol thanks! :)
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YES!!!🎉🎉🎉new page!!!
So sad though 😕 I suppose Elvis will end up helping (hehe otherwise why stick so long in this scene 😉)
haha, I think this is related to the movie trope "protagonist always refuses the call to action the first time". :) Also it makes it more realistic, like most people he probably just needs a few seconds to think about it...
fantastic your creative process brother, you are a crack! I feel sorry for the android, no one wants to help her and believe her evil when the opposite is true.
I've been a little away from the platform and my work because of health problems but I've already returned, I think I'm better.
Thanks! It's good you're better, hope it stays that way. :)
That was interesting, the comic page was good, but the process, you write and position the words first, to me that is mind blowing, you work the art around the words, I would have thought just the opposite. Does it constrain your drawing to do that or does it, the self imposed constraint, help with the vision of the strip?
Thanks!
To me the "flow" of the story telling is by far the most important, like the dialogue and editing of a movie. If you get those wrong, the movie absolutely fails catastrophically. But if you get those right, it doesn't matter what the visuals are - they could be drawn in South Park style and it would still work. :) But of course I enjoy the craft of drawing, and having readable facial expressions and body language will certainly help, so I do my best to improve that too.
It's important to take into account how people read. Of course some cultures read in the opposite direction, but for people who read left to right, and downwards, the reading of the page has to flow, otherwise the eye jumps to the wrong part and it's like jumbling the cuts in a movie. Very uncomfortable or destructive to the flow. So I read the page, over and over, until it feels right.
Also eye-lines are important, maybe even more than in a movie, because it can direct the reader to the next piece of text to read. Also, like in a movie, the 30 degree rule, and the 180 degree rule, are important. And to try to vary the shots in a long dialogue... lots of things to keep track of. :)
Really love your creative process towards achieving this exceptional exclusive comics.
Welldone
Hi stahlberg,
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