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 …
Using this script format, which I hope will cover most of the essentials: establishing shot to orient reader and establish setting, specifying the size and action of characters…here we go, layout! First page on way.
My protagonist has been changing and evolving as I learn how to draw her. Georgia is a committed revolutionary with “no time for love.” You might notice that I was drawing Georgia as Black. I wanted to create a sort of Naughts and Crosses adventure story and it made sense to have a strong, Black, …
Experimenting with pallets and effects on Procreate.