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title: One step further ahead
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author: nek0
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tags:
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- english
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- writing
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- comic
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description: "Some nice things have happened in tha past month"
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Hi there!
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Some time hase passed since my last update and there has been some great
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progress. First off: The story outline for my comic or rather series of short
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comics is finished!
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While being occupied with other things like work, event planning and my ever
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returning mental health issues I was unable to work on the story of my comic
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very much. What I was able to do, was to draw some reference for one of my main
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characters, which led to me drawing a lot (about 20) different facial
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expressions of this character for practicing conveying emotions better, which
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had been a problem before.
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After that I explored a little bit the options of how to color my comic and
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came to the conclusion, that most of the comic will be black & white, since
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this mode of (not) coloring leads to faster production of pages. Shadows will
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be handled as simple cel-shading using semitones as well as hints of color
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values. Special pages or panels will be in full colour though.
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The nicest breakthrough with my comic happened just this weekend, where I was
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able to sit down with my older brother and discuss the story a bit. I already
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had a good beginning and a fairly decent ending, but my middle part was still
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an unsolidified mess of ideas for possible events.
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The process was quite simple in retrospective: I began telling my brother the
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story as far as I had it from the beginning and whenever I reached a point of
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unsolidified ideas or outright plot holes he would ask critical questions and
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we would discuss possible solutions to the problem at hand. A great help in
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this whole process was, that my brother at this point was not very well
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acquainted with the story, so he head an unbiased and uninformed view on the
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whole construct.
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The resulting story outline is shorter than I had expected, but it is in
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a way the "minimum viable product" to tell the story. Now that the story is
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more or less defined and in place I can begin drawing storyboards and layouts
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for the individual pages. As always: nothing is set in stone. I might deviate
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from the story outline spontaneously during the drawing step, but at least I
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have a plan with a finite scope.
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So much for this update. I hope to keep you updated here and on my
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[art portfolio][art] without spoiling too much of the story.
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Keep calm and wash hands.
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[art]: https://art.nek0.eu
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