#pagedesigns

Panels I changed from the original sketch 

Page 21 - Panel 1

The original panel on page 21 features Fray first interacting with her new friend in the background you can see her friends walking off into the distance. The reason I changed this is that after looking at the previous scene I noticed that those characters wouldn’t be there and it would make sense for there to be lockers their instead. That said I still wanted those character talking in the scene so added speech bubbles for those characters so that you can see that they’d be behind Fray instead. I think this change makes much more sense than the original and stops the panel from being too crowded. 

Page 22 - Panel 1

From sketching, lineart, to colour 

When making this comic I started by sketching out the page on paper and then scanning it in (on some later pages I made the panels first, printed them and then sketched on those). I then open it in Photoshop and rescale and move around so of the sketches until I’m happy with it since this is much quicker to do in photoshop than with the original sketch.

 Then I start to process of lining my page. My lines are 6 pixels thick while the speech bubbles are 10 pixels thick much like the panel borders this is to make the panels and speech bubble stand out from the images. I use the lining process to improve the original drawing by fixing things I didn’t like and adding detail. Once I’ve lined the page I look at it as a whole and if I find that the characters blend into the background too much I add a bit of line weight to define them. 

Sketches Pages 19-24