comic #1 so far...

So i taken my first idea that was on paper, scanned it, cleaned up the lines in photoshop, and addd color. My next step is to add text. I think i will do most of this using illustrator so i can manipulate the text easier. I hopefully will have the whole page up by this weekend.

comic ideas

"Fish" my character

So i have decided to use the fish from the Dr. Seuss book "The Cat and The Hat." I've done a few drawings and comics with him on paper. I just recently started to draw him on the computer where i will do most of my final work. here are a few promos i have of the "Fish."

my comic? what comic?

Over the last couple of days I have just been kind of brainstorming on ideas I want my comic to be about. Like what characters I want, the scenery, and the storyline. On Friday I decided that I wanted to do a comic about the goldfish, and the character I am Sam from Dr. Seuss. I think that they basic storyline will be them living in an apartment together trying to get through normal day challenges.

Recently I have been practicing my drawing on the characters with different facial expressions, gestures, and body language. Once I feel comfortable being able to draw those I’ll move on to the scenery they will be engaging in. I defiantly like to work on a large workspace where I can spread everything out and listen to music. Things that distract me can be just about anything. I can usually stay focused on something for quite a while, but my concentration can be broken easily with a text message or my roommates or facebook. I kind of like to have my concentration broken up though because if I’m too focused on something I can get frustrated pretty fast and then I just want to give up.

I think to be able to complete this comic I need to stay focused on checkpoints like finish these panels by a certain time, and keep the storyline moving so I don’t get bored. I really enjoy what I’m doing in this class so it gives me that extra push to keep trying.

Marvel: The Road to Civil War

I haven’t really read too many comic books in my time, mainly just the newspaper and a few pages out of a book. One comic that really caught my eye was one of the Marvel comics called “The Road to Civil War.” I liked how all the panels are usually not consistent on every page. For example, some might be a long panoramic panel, others just normal rectangles, and some are long skinny portrait panels. I also enjoyed the use of the “white space,” through out the comic. Sometimes they used black “white space,” when it was a night or dark scene. It really gave me a sense of being there. I thought that the use of their text was really effective as well. When Iron man would speak he had a red hue, analog robot like text. And the others used just a normal shorthand serif like text. I noticed that on occasions that the text would turn italic to show a little more emphasis when someone was speaking. I think that seeing some of these techniques will really help me with my ideas in designing my own comic.