The Process of my Project
BEGINNING
Originally, the project was just going to be a comic about two boys that happen to run away together. I had sketched out over 50 pages of storyboard as well as at least thirty finished pages until I realized I was not happy where I was going with it. Around December, I scrapped all the drawings and work all together and restarted the whole comic, though using the same characters, the story was completely different.
As you can see by the images below, I worked a lot on this version of my project. I feel like if someone asked me why I changed it I would have a few answers:
1) due to time, I would never be able to complete the story
2) the characters' personalities would not be fleshed out as well as I changed it
3) my art style changed
Through my years of high school, I noticed my art style would never be the same from beginning a new grade to the end of it. Half way through drawing this first part of this story, I noticed that my style was already changing, and that the beginning half of my story art was not as good as the increasing time. So I decided that after winter break, I would redo the project. I was sad, after already putting in 153 hours just to throw it away, but I had a feeling that by changing it, it would be much better. Not only that, I could still use the same characters I loved, just a different premise.
Looking back now, I'm more than happy I changed the project entirely. The art was off, the colors were bland, and the story moved too fast. As Mrs. Cherbak told me, no project is perfect. In the art world, there will be times you've put your heart and soul into something, only to half to redo the entire thing. I truly think redoing the project prepared me for something that may happen when I enter the art career.
Originally, the project was just going to be a comic about two boys that happen to run away together. I had sketched out over 50 pages of storyboard as well as at least thirty finished pages until I realized I was not happy where I was going with it. Around December, I scrapped all the drawings and work all together and restarted the whole comic, though using the same characters, the story was completely different.
As you can see by the images below, I worked a lot on this version of my project. I feel like if someone asked me why I changed it I would have a few answers:
1) due to time, I would never be able to complete the story
2) the characters' personalities would not be fleshed out as well as I changed it
3) my art style changed
Through my years of high school, I noticed my art style would never be the same from beginning a new grade to the end of it. Half way through drawing this first part of this story, I noticed that my style was already changing, and that the beginning half of my story art was not as good as the increasing time. So I decided that after winter break, I would redo the project. I was sad, after already putting in 153 hours just to throw it away, but I had a feeling that by changing it, it would be much better. Not only that, I could still use the same characters I loved, just a different premise.
Looking back now, I'm more than happy I changed the project entirely. The art was off, the colors were bland, and the story moved too fast. As Mrs. Cherbak told me, no project is perfect. In the art world, there will be times you've put your heart and soul into something, only to half to redo the entire thing. I truly think redoing the project prepared me for something that may happen when I enter the art career.
THE PROJECT NOW
Now that I had my head in place of where I wanted to go, I also changed some things. I changed to instead of it just being a fun and out going comic, there were going to be hidden gems of racism. I did this by making some characters a different species; one of which had animal parts. This is because I wanted people to read it and realize that just because said characters are different, they should be treated equal, much like what we should be doing now.
I considered a lot of things when I restarted my comic. I gave it a theme, as stated above, and actually gave it some depth other than "two weird boys running away from bad homes". By now, I was too attached to the characters I created, so I used them again. Another consideration I had to think about was weather or not I was going to make it into a physical comic or not.
Two of my friends created a webcomic. I would read updates constantly, but I never really though much of it until I saw my friend working on a page for it. For webcomics, you do not need to finish all the pages right away. Once a week you can upload a page while working on future pages, instead of having them all done. This is a good way to not get too stressed out. If it comes to the point where you run out of pages, another way is to put it on hiatus. This is really a good, as if it was a physical copy you cannot stop it half way.
In the end, my comic became a webcomic. I have still yet to post it, as I am trying my best to stack up on pages before continuing it so I know I will have enough and not run out by the time I post it.