OK here are the "new" pages. By now they're already three months old but I've had a bunch of other stuff to do so these are still the most recent work I have available to show you all.
This is a test for Future Unknown. These characters may or may not appear in the graphic novel. They're more a symbolic representation of some of the themes I'll be playing with. Philosophically and visually speaking.
I had to hand letter these pages, something I've never really done so apologies for the crappy lettering. If I incorporate any of these pages into the project rest assured that the lettering will be redone (either by someone els or using a font maker program).
I would like to spend some time learning to do proper lettering but I've got to weigh the pros and cons of doing the balloons and lettering on the boards vs in "post".
It's a time thing.
Writing AND drawing your own comic is a strange exorcize in discipline. Admittedly I did not write out a full script for this. I did a dialog breakdown which allowed me to figure out when to cut the scene and go to a new page. sometime during that proses I decided to enforce a story telling boundary of 6 panels per page, no more no less.
the reasoning behind that is to control the amount of story per page. The visual pacing. And to relieve some of the pressure I seem to inadvertently place on myself. By that I mean to say the proses of second guessing every artistic decision I make.
The curse of perfectionism.
Not "visual" perfection so much as "detail". I've got to learn to let go on an artistic level. This is commercial work not "Art". As much as I love the visuals of the medium I feel the story needs to be the focus. Storytelling (the good kind) is a term that really needs to be understood as meaning the incorporation of the whole proses. I forget that sometimes and I get bogged down in the visuals and the story details trying to make everything perfect.
anyways, lets go through the pages...one by one...(oops ran out of time. I'll be back later to complete the walk through, cheers).
