Behind the Scenes - A
Aug 16, 2024
Things happened this week IRL, or "in meatspace". So rather than bring you nothing I thought I'd show you this instead, this behind-the-scenes look. These are panel roughs I drew. Plotting a vertical comic of unknown size is much different than plotting comic panels intended to fill a portrait-orientation printed page, and I've developed this process, the first stage you see here.
First stage is drawing out roughs, very very roughs, that show generally what's going to be in a panel. I may use the pose or I may throw it out. The horizontal bars are what I've plotted out as (generally) the space of a single mobile screen. I'll try to fit the panels between these horizontal bars, though sometimes I'll go longer.
Then, in order, I go panel by panel and finish: panel roughs, tight panel pencil drawings, inks over the drawings, colors behind the inks, and then final position of dialog balloons.
I'm going to "engagement mine" here and ask you, reader/creator, what is your process for writing vertical comics?
Thanks for visiting, I'll have finished panels for you next Friday. Have a good week!
*I come back years later and no one has written any comments*
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Visit the newly-discovered planet Elysium, where space colonist James Haut has traveled after quitting his job as a university professor. He's built a pre-fab house and made things ready for his wife Phyllis, who will arrive soon from Earth.
But there's an indigenous lifeform in the new couple's backyard, and it's very, very lovely.
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