The Fulton School
Week 4
This week, I finally got started on the pages for the comic. I spent most on the writing part, which came in the form of planning out and sketching my first ten or so pages. I think this might be my favorite part of the process. It’s just simple sketches that might not even look like anything. The purpose of this is to get a feel of how the comic will look and how it will flow from panel to panel.
There is a trend in web comics to not use panels, or to only use single uniform panels. This is mostly because of where people post web comics, and fitting it into the form of posting. I however, decided not to do this. I’m using panels like you typically would in a graphic novel. This is a choice I made for the delivery of my story. I find that style of panels to be more interesting to read and to write, and it gives you the ability to convey things in a way you wouldn’t be able to otherwise.
I got two pages done this week, though they were just the cover for the comic, and the cover for the Prologue. Here are those:
I supposed this is also me telling you what the title of my comic will be: Three Crowns. I might have mentioned before that this is a story I’ve had for a long time, so I already knew what the title would be.
Another thing I did to prepare for this was to read Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud. It was incredibly helpful, and has made me much more aware of how I can use my art, panels, and colors to deliver the story better. I’d recommend it even if you aren’t very interested in comics, because it’s pretty fascinating the way he talks about how images and words have been used throughout human history. It is a bit of a hard read though, I had to reread some parts a few times to understand it fully.
Finally here’s some of the basic sketches I did for the first four pages. They might be a bit incomprehensible, but they’ll help me when I start to do the line-art.
Next week I’ll have at least one completed page to share, and I hope to get faster as I go!
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I love your simple sketches! They seem useful to get an atmosphere/a feeling of your comics, kind of like how I experiment with the narrator voice in my writing projects. I also like how you intentionally made the choice to use panels.