#endra

Art Fight Attack from last season of @itssopanda ‘s Endra ♥

Discovery Task #3: Wordless Comic

For my comic this week, I initially wanted to try doing an aspect-to-aspect comic; once I started drawing it, however, I realized this is a bit more subject-to-subject. This comic might require a little bit of backstory to make more sense: I tried using the panels to capture the essence of my original characters & their homelands from a video game idea I developed last semester. If you’re interested in reading more about them, you can look here. (You don’t need to read the whole game bible to understand the comic, I promise.)

This comic is a bit different than a traditional comic, I suppose, because it’s organized by column instead of being read traditionally left-to-right. I tried to guide the reader through it by making the gutter between columns a bit larger than the space between the panels in the columns. Each column has two panels: one for the character, and one that serves as an establishing shot for their hometown. 

I do wish I could draw more compelling environments, because then I feel like I could really properly capture the essence/magic of Endra (the whole world in which each region exists). On the far left is the snowy village/castle town of Vetur, and I don’t know if I totally captured the snow/icy feel that it has in my head. The middle area is Arboria, which I think I captured well enough, and the far right is Eldur Ignus Volcano, which is hard because it’s... the inside of a volcano. The hierarchy of the race that lives in the volcano separates the volcano itself into five layers/tiers, which is hard to capture when you’re not a practiced artist.

Endra

Race: Human

Age: 23

Height: 172cm

Weight: n/a

Class: n/a

Rioli

Race: Dwarf

Age: 57

Height: 115cm

Weight: n/a