From be3f2d576b1e0b64a773a2c2d7333ce27c2d856d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: nek0 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 13:41:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] new post --- .../2021-10-05-One-step-further-ahead.md | 55 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+) create mode 100644 site/posts/2021-10-05-One-step-further-ahead.md diff --git a/site/posts/2021-10-05-One-step-further-ahead.md b/site/posts/2021-10-05-One-step-further-ahead.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8260774 --- /dev/null +++ b/site/posts/2021-10-05-One-step-further-ahead.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +title: One step further ahead +author: nek0 +tags: +- english +- writing +- comic +description: "Some nice things have happened in tha past month" +--- + +Hi there! + +Some time hase passed since my last update and there has been some great +progress. First off: The story outline for my comic or rather series of short +comics is finished! + +While being occupied with other things like work, event planning and my ever +returning mental health issues I was unable to work on the story of my comic +very much. What I was able to do, was to draw some reference for one of my main +characters, which led to me drawing a lot (about 20) different facial +expressions of this character for practicing conveying emotions better, which +had been a problem before. + +After that I explored a little bit the options of how to color my comic and +came to the conclusion, that most of the comic will be black & white, since +this mode of (not) coloring leads to faster production of pages. Shadows will +be handled as simple cel-shading using semitones as well as hints of color +values. Special pages or panels will be in full colour though. + +The nicest breakthrough with my comic happened just this weekend, where I was +able to sit down with my older brother and discuss the story a bit. I already +had a good beginning and a fairly decent ending, but my middle part was still +an unsolidified mess of ideas for possible events. + +The process was quite simple in retrospective: I began telling my brother the +story as far as I had it from the beginning and whenever I reached a point of +unsolidified ideas or outright plot holes he would ask critical questions and +we would discuss possible solutions to the problem at hand. A great help in +this whole process was, that my brother at this point was not very well +acquainted with the story, so he head an unbiased and uninformed view on the +whole construct. + +The resulting story outline is shorter than I had expected, but it is in +a way the "minimum viable product" to tell the story. Now that the story is +more or less defined and in place I can begin drawing storyboards and layouts +for the individual pages. As always: nothing is set in stone. I might deviate +from the story outline spontaneously during the drawing step, but at least I +have a plan with a finite scope. + +So much for this update. I hope to keep you updated here and on my +[art portfolio][art] without spoiling too much of the story. + +Keep calm and wash hands. + +[art]: https://art.nek0.eu