05-07-2023, 12:40 PM
Thank you Dominicque! This particular scene doesn't take too long to do layouts for because it's been ingrained in me since I started this project long ago. But when I tackle a new scene it can take hours of doing a dozen different layouts until I find the one that works. And even when I start drafting at full scale, I can still change things because a particular detail I'm drawing evokes a more striking idea for the emotions, dialogs and events. Talking about the past here, because I don't really do comics anymore.
BTW I made these layouts more polished so that I'm not the only one knowing what's going on in them. It takes more time though.
I'd love to make more scenes of this pre-chapter that didn't make it into the story at the time, if that's what you mean. However, I don't have the energy to carry this story. At first it was a side project to relax from my main two comic projects. It was a light-weight parody of medieval fantasy which quickly turned into a lengthy tragicomedic saga in ancient times. I drew a good part of the first chapter in express condensed mode, then stopped drawing for ten years.
Agreed on bubble and text styling but I need to make that better so the intention is clear and doesn't look like random wandering (which it can be, lol).
Yes, I did a "study" of AI generated hands and actual hands as part of an experiment about drawing things as mere pixels without understanding what I'm seeing and doing (it's a million times worse than contour drawing). Check out the Twitter link I put in that post, it's full of funny hands.
Now trying to remember how I used to draw and ink, and it's painful.
BTW I made these layouts more polished so that I'm not the only one knowing what's going on in them. It takes more time though.
I'd love to make more scenes of this pre-chapter that didn't make it into the story at the time, if that's what you mean. However, I don't have the energy to carry this story. At first it was a side project to relax from my main two comic projects. It was a light-weight parody of medieval fantasy which quickly turned into a lengthy tragicomedic saga in ancient times. I drew a good part of the first chapter in express condensed mode, then stopped drawing for ten years.
Agreed on bubble and text styling but I need to make that better so the intention is clear and doesn't look like random wandering (which it can be, lol).
Yes, I did a "study" of AI generated hands and actual hands as part of an experiment about drawing things as mere pixels without understanding what I'm seeing and doing (it's a million times worse than contour drawing). Check out the Twitter link I put in that post, it's full of funny hands.
Now trying to remember how I used to draw and ink, and it's painful.