Comic Front Cover

Time to piece all the bits and bobs together to make the Comic front cover.

First of all I took the Kawaii Doodles then I put the characters over the top and placed them around figuring out which way would look best.

Then I took the Font and decided where I wanted that to go.

After some edits and tweaks the front cover was made. Sounds simple but it wasn't. There was a lot of fiddling around to get it right.

Can't give you a picture, its still top secret.

I can tell you it was quite difficult trying to get it all together but I'm happy with the end result and think the time spent on it was worth it.

Comic Background Creation

A week later and another session with Ami. We're on a roll. For those of you who don't know, I am home educated and if it weren't for home education, I probably wouldn't be following this opportunity at all.

Middle of the day, working with a local Artist. I get to wear what I want and we listen to music whilst we're working - that wouldn't happen in school!!! For me, feeling relaxed and not under pressure is a better way of working.

Today was all about starting background creation. I decided that I would like to have a Japanese Kawaii doodle type background and for it to reflect each of the characters.

Each character has their own Kawaii doodle background and then the main comic background I wanted to merge all of the individual character backgrounds. Are you with me?

Basically, I spent my time doodling.

Here I am Doodling! 

Back on to photoshop to scan my doodles in, colour them and create a repeating background pattern.

I really enjoyed doodling and colouring in, that was an easy and relaxing part of the session. I like doodling in general so yeah that was fun. New skills came from using photoshop as I learned to blend and repeat for the pattern.

Everything went to plan. Really happy with my doodles and happy that I learned some new skills.

My Comic Has A Name

But, I'm not going to reveal it just yet!

Had my first session with Ami for 2015!

More planning today and I made a mind map to help me decide on a Comic Name and build out the story a bit more.

I've used mindmaps previously for lots of stuff and knew it was a good way to go about getting an idea for the comic.

I can't tell you want the story is about at the moment all a bit top secret!

I can tell you that I worked on Fonts and Colours. I used the website www.dafont.com to make a list of fonts that I liked. I tried various styles, sizes and colours and eventually settled on one that seemed to match the name I have chosen well. I was torn between quite a few and then just two but I hope I've made the right choice.