COMIC PAGES For this section, my two main goals were to figure out an atmosphere/color palette for the prologue comic and to make a tentative presentation of my work so far. For final assessment, I will be refining some things and adding some [...]
Adjusted Images This section has mostly been dedicated to making adjustments to previous work and adding some colored characters. Some mistakes were made in my approach, mostly in the aspect of organization. The results themselves are a little wonky because of my [...]
This post is a continuation of the task I assigned myself in the last section, so in some ways it's just more of the same. I illustrated the last four parts of the "trailer" section of the project presentation/visual development portfolio. The main thing [...]
In the previous post, I planned out the final presentation for this project, with all the images and sketches that needed to be there in order for the final project to make sense as a narrative and as a general concept. It's important that [...]
Project Review At this point in the project, I have realized that things have changed so much that the final result I was imagining in the beginning does not quite match what I am working on at the moment. In this situation, [...]
Drawing the Pages So, this process was going very well until it suddenly wasn't. In the last section, I spent some time drawing the storyboard. The plan was to move on to penciling the next week and hopefully have some finished-looking pages. [...]
Update on Character Designs: Last time, I said I still wanted to work on these character designs and get to know them better. Sketching them daily and working with the intention of understanding their shape language really helped me clarify both their [...]
Getting to Know the Characters The previous two assignments were for designing the characters and choosing an approach. In this section I will be using what I have established so far and see how it works in practice, and I will be [...]
My primary objective for this section was style exploration. For the sake of simplicity, I decided not to venture into color, this way I could focus on the shapes/design and values. Putting the characters in context also helps with figuring out how they move [...]
Choosing the Characters All stages of this project rely on having a good concept to create illustrations for. The only idea I had starting out was the author and a list of stories I might want to pull from. Below, I screen [...]
