zaterdag 6 juni 2015

Update: Making a full page design

I am finally satisfied with my design for the last page of the scene.
I began with some designs that looked good as a sketch, but when I started with the line-art failed for different reasons. For example this design was in balance as a sketch. But when I started with the line art I lost the balance in the design:

               


After a few failed designs I had some success:



 Even after I added the lineart:


For this page I was inspired by an artist called Drew Struzan, that made some amazing poster and album cover designs:

        








zaterdag 23 mei 2015

Update: The return of Joe

I finished the page were I let my other main character Joe Bennington return from his fall in the last story. He will wake up at the bottom of the Insomnia:


vrijdag 22 mei 2015

Update: Bringing back a character

In my previous comic my main character was Joe Bennington. At the end of the first part of my new comic I wanted him to return. And because the two stories are continuous I didn't have to change much to the design of the character:


At the end of my first comic Joe fell down from a exploding zeppelin into the unknown. And now I want to continue his story in little snippets while mainly following Olivia:

                  

The special thing about Joe is that he is a daydreamer. In my story it is a special gift to be a daydreamer because I am one myself.
A daydreamer is a person that can connect at the real world and the dream world at the same time. Because your never fully present in both.
I use this to show the big difference between Olivia and Joe. Because Olivia is a lucid dreamer, what means that she is always aware of herself dreaming. Therefore many lucid dreamers can alter and manipulate their dreams.

zondag 10 mei 2015

Update: Coloring some pages

The last few days I started with coloring of the pages that have finished lineart. Many times after I started coloring a page I have a hard time with the previously made line art. While giving my line art designs color I find many flaws in the illustration that make me go back redoing the line art.










zaterdag 4 april 2015

Update: Cover + First page

I wanted to share my new version of the cover with you. And what I almost sure about is going to be the first page in this new story!



Update: The beginning of the action...


Music while drawing: Taylor Swift (album 1989) -  I know...
Tools: Photoshop, wacom
Comment: Don't mind the bad English, I am listening Taylor Swift....

This is an action sequence I am working at. The main character Olivia is followed by two dangerous killers while she has to find a letter from a dead friend on the graveyard.

 I really like this page because it gives the comic a feeling of motion. My plan is to put a human skull in the left bottom of the page, just a joke (a reference to the cover of the first comic ).
I do not know where the name Celendriel comes from, I just made it up. The time she lived was exactly she same as I am living now. The story of the comic itself plays out in the year 2057.
I am not satisfied with this page yet. I just wanted that Olivia would get the chance to get the letter. So I just let the killers go back to the forest to look for her... 
 In the last page of this sequence I let Olivia find the letter. I especially like the two shots with the low view angle. 

I think you can find this full scene somewhere in the begin of the final comic. Probably with some changes.

woensdag 11 februari 2015

Hello...

In this blog you can follow my progress while I am making the comic Insomnia episode 2.
You can read the first episode I made last year (2014) here or if you want to use the app look for te link at the right side of the page.