“Where are we going boys?” “To the top, Johnny!” “What top is that boys?” “The toppermost of the poppermost, Johnny!” “That’s right so let’s give it some. One, two, ah one two, three…” A. The general premise: Freedom House is an organisation that cares for the WILY URCHINS, the street children of the CITY. This …
After calling to Jack and finding him asleep, Georgia sees the dream has started. Albert rises from his sleep and finds himself sitting in a bosun’s chair, anchored to the moon and ready to swing. Georgia leaps on his back, clinging on with arms and legs as the swing into space. They swing out over …
The Dream, and settled on character of Thomas Grand Read More »
One of the best things about writing this comic book is the pace and how it gives me time to think and space for the story to grow. I am scripting and drawing as I go (having the general story-arc in mind and knowing how I think it ends) and this is a really powerful …
Might not end up in the book – maybe just one panel of the author telling the character she doesn’t die, but it’s fun for the first draft/learning book that this is. One of the main things I’m working on now is to be able to eyeball perspective better. This is important because not everything …
I’m setting up quite an ambitious scene today, where I reassure the main character that she doesn’t die climbing the scary tower. “So, let me get this straight,” she says back, you made me scared of heights then wrote me climbing this tower with my skirts unfeasibly tucked up, just so I can be scared?” …
The wonderful thing about writing this story is seeing it play out on pages as I draw them. I am also excited at the progress I am making towards working quickly. Right now everything is a fiddle. I’m constantly revising ideas about how the characters will look, but once that settles, I should be able …
I am taking a break from scripting and drawing rough pages, to experiment with inking. I’m going to see how it works to do each panel as a layer and then flatten them all at the end. It’s a visual treat to ink.
I was crazy to think this was going to be in greyscale. I’m going to use colour as part of the story and save green for when Georgia and Gideon meet. The world will be greys and sepias. Georgia will warm London, as her presence will be the only source of yellow in the pallet. …
Here are the panels for the first page, with the script below. I’m overall pleased with how I executed the script. Hopefully drawing and writing will develop a synergy. I picked up a few tips that sounded good from a YouTuber and cartoon artist called Scott Drummond. First, make sure the first panel is an …