100 Days of Making Comics - Day Thirty Nine - Forty One - Research and Sketching Days

'Ello!

Welcome to 100 Days of making Comics, a challenge in which the goal is to spend a minimum of 30 minutes a day working on or towards comic creation.

Sorry but not a great deal to actually show for these 3 days, I was very busy doing some research for some...things... i'll need to draw later on in the series, and obviously I can't actually show or even describe what they are.
I have also started on the next page from where I last left off, and drawn the first panel, but I think at this point I'll leave it until I'm a little further along to show.

There will be an update over the weekend, most likely on Sunday after I've done a bit more of something I can actually show, doing this challenge and not actually giving any spoilers will become a little difficult further down the line as once the stories main plot lines start to kick in I'll become far more limited as to what I can show. But I'll do my best, I might start drawing the pages out of the order they are read in so as to be able to pick the ones I can show.
We'll see.

Anyhow, again sorry for the slightly contentless update, but there will definitely be a slightly more interesting one over the weekend, until then, keep creative!

100 Days of Making Comics - Day Thirty Eight - Layout Changes, for the better!

Good Evenin' All.

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After a meeting with the writer of JAR, and a productive one at that, the first pages of the comic have had a major overhaul layout wise!
And it's definitely for the better, the new look is much more dynamic and less static looking.
I still need to do some work on it but here's a look at it as it now stands.
narration boxes and text still need to be added, and I'll definitely be adding more objects into the room in the background as it's now a two page spread!

Also, we have been discussing the idea of the comic being in black and white, which I'm really liking,  the story is mainly set in the 1940's and the look seems to really suit it. I will still colour it all so there's both versions but the main one may look a little like this...

I'll do some more work on it at some point, but for now, hope you have a great evening and I'll catch you next time, until then, keep creative!

100 Days of Making Comics - Day Thirty Seven - Painterly Practice

Yo! Whassap?

Welcome to 100 Days of making Comics, a challenge in which the goal is to spend a minimum of 30 minutes a day working on or towards comic creation.

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I'll keep the writing to a minimum tonight as I want to relax for a couple of hours before bed!

I wanted to get a bit of practice on the style of colouring I had planned for this comic, so did some "painterly" type photoshop colouring this evening, below is the before and after images. 

I'll probably add to these some more but it's going in the general direction i want, so all good.

Before

After

Catch ya next time, 'til then, keep creative!

100 Days of Making Comics - Day Thirty Six - More Colour!

Hola! Buenas tardes usuarios de internet!

Welcome to 100 Days of making Comics, a challenge in which the goal is to spend a minimum of 30 minutes a day working on or towards comic creation.

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Just been having a bit of fun with colour this morning, adding a background colour to the last two pages, I haven't yet inked the 3rd and 4th panels on the last page but couldn't help myself and got carried away with it.

These are only the base colours for these pages, will be adding shadows etc a little bit further down the line.

Here's the current page as it looks now, I won't post the page before as it's in a lot less of a decent looking state.

That's it for now, tomorrow I'll try and get that bit of missing inking done, then get the colours flatted on this page before moving on to the next one.

Until next time, keep creative!

100 Days of Making Comics - Day Thirty Four and Thirty Five

WEEKEND!!! Whoop!

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It's a double post again, got in late and couldn't be arsed to turn everything on and edit images etc so left it for this morning.

Day Thirty Four

Did some work on panels 5-7 when I got in from work, sketched out the three characters roughly (a couple of times as the storyboards we did had them in different positions, but whilst sketching came up with the idea for the shared three panel layout.

Also fixed the girls cheek in panel 2 as I decided it was a little too pronounced, smoothed it out a bit and am now happier with the look.

Day Thirty Five

Woke up this morning and did a little bit of inking, got all three characters in panels 5-7, and am now finishing up for the day as a splendid lunch and a couple of beers await, 

Here's where the page as a whole is...

I'll be getting on with the roughs for panels 3-5 tomorrow morning, so...

Until next time, keep creative!

100 Days of Making Comics - Day Thirty Three - Word Balloon Placement and Roughs

Hello!

Welcome to 100 Days of making Comics, a challenge in which the goal is to spend a minimum of 30 minutes a day working on or towards comic creation.

Not much to report today unfortunately, I spent the morning doing a few roughs before work, and the did some alterations to the word balloon placement on the page as I had some ideas for changes to the storyboards, I'll be getting onto some more interesting stuff tomorrow afternoon and over the weekend.

Sorry it's not a more content packed update but there's always going to be slow days along with the productive ones.

So, until next time, keep creative!

100 Days of Making Comics - Day Thirty Two - Little Bit O Inking

...and so I said, what do you mean?! Ah, sorry, didn't see you there!

Welcome to 100 Days of making Comics, a challenge in which the goal is to spend a minimum of 30 minutes a day working on or towards comic creation.

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Keeping this post brief as it's getting late and I need to get some sleep!

I got the main inking done on the panel from yesterday, need to add a little bit more to it in the way of line weights but I'm happy enough with it. No background for this panel as it's not really needed, the focus is on these four so not wanting to crowd the page for no good reason.

That's it for now, until tomorrow, keep creative!