Monday 30 March 2015

Illustration of Scenes

Really great session at Ami's house. I was doing some of the teaching as Ami said she learned lots about Anime and Manga from me! Just for the record, Anime is film and animated series whereas Manga is the drawing in comics and graphic novels. She said to my mum when she came to collect me that I could easily create a novel in the future based around my characters but I'll just go with getting this comic completed first.
Anyway, back to what I did today. I started drawing the scenes out properly referring back to my sketched notes in my scrapbook. One of the scenes contains two background characters so I didn't want to take up too much time making them look perfect and giving them details so they came out rather derpy. 
I also drew three hands and part of an arm and four doors. 
My favourite part of drawing was the doors because they belonged to the girls so I got to decorate them according to their personalities.
It was hard to get the shape right so I used a ruler for some things but it was really fun. The hands were super difficult. I had to get some help from Ami and I had to mimick the hand movements myself or get Ami to do it so I could try and copy off of it.

At this stage, although the comic is hard work, I do think it's going well. I'm continuously learning new skills and practising existing skills. 

Wednesday 18 March 2015

Planning out the Scenes

Another session with Ami today this time to plan out the scenes of the comic.

We needed a plan for this one.

First I divided pages in my scrap book into half giving me two pages of comic book per scrapbook page. Confused much? So am I!

Then I decided on the scenes and comic page layout shapes to make it look as interesting as possible. I started rough sketching out the scenes and objects and backgrounds etc in each of the page layouts I created.

Ami helped me with some of the rough sketches and the dividing of the pages and helped me come up with ideas. It's good to have a mentor to help out.

Other help came from Wiki How to Write a Comic Book

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Script Writing

Today's session was all about trying to come up with a script.

I tried to make the scripting for the characters so it would match their personalities. I also tried to make it a bit funny without it being too complicated.

On reflection, the fact that I go to Drama school and already know quite a bit about scripts it made it easier to come up with the scripting for the comic. This was just another way to apply what I already know about scrips. Having a basic storyline also helped.