After nine hours at the drawing board today, this is how I feel.
Don’t get me wrong, a lot of good things came out of drawing today, maybe my best page thus far I just have a headache now and feel completely whipped.
I started with a plan and reference for said plan, but “a plan is just a list of things that don’t happen”.
So many panels were drawn, erased, redrawn, erased, reredrawn, and finally finished. I restructured the page and added panels to “decompress” a little of the story telling. Some of it I felt was necessary for the benefit of the story, other panels were added I think because of my short comings as an artist at this point.
I try to approach my layout, storytelling, and movement of the panels so that things would make sense if the reader only had the pictures to tell the story. Even if they were making up dialog in their head the story would come out to the same conclusion.
In my head I think this is the best approach but I still kind of hate deviating from the script as it stands. But I think it’s a big part of my job that if in my head something doesn’t read I need to spell it out so it does.
But now it’s late and I have no idea if this post is coherent and I don’t want to read back through and make sure it is. Cause myhead hurts and proofreading these things just isn’t my style.
