søndag den 24. november 2013

Manuscript and thumbnailing

The last two weeks we have been writing a manuscript for our 20 page comic and thumbnailing the pages. For the writing our guide was Henning Kure, who is one of the creators of the Danish Valhalla series. For the thumbnailing we had Palle Scmidt, writer and artist of the graphic novels Stiletto and The Devils Concubine.

The writing was very intense and demanding, and you could only do it in a certain pace.

With Palle we also did test pages, where we tried out different styles for the comic. We have two weeks to finish the 20 pages next semester, so we also had to find out which style would be easier for yourself to finish quickly. This is why I have chosen to do the comic in pencil/crayon with a more children book/illustration feel to it. The trick, Palle said, is to trick yourself into thinking that what you're doing is not important.

The comic will look something like this:

 
 
And these are the other tests I did:





For inspiration I have been looking at Tove Jannson, Arne Ungermann and Sven Nordqvist illustrations.

søndag den 10. november 2013

Story structure with Merlin!

Some time back we had the American screen writer Barbara Slade as a teacher in story structure and scriptwriting. Here we began working with stories, that we continued working on this week. This week we had the Danish Merlin P. Mann as a teacher (the co-creator of the Taynikma series), and his teaching was a continuation of what we did with Barbara: 3 act structure, the hero's journey, A-story/B-story and so on.

At the end of the week we had a product that consisted of the story outline, which is a bullet point description of the actions of the story, where you take out all flavor and mood out of the story. Like that you boil the story down to structure and you can focus on making the structure simple and working.

The comic story we're working individually on now will be a 20 pager, but we won't finish it until the beginning of next year.


Drawing croquis!

Last week we did lifedrawing with Artem Alexeev, which was amazing. We did exercises in croquis, we went sketching in town and did some composition/illustration exercises and drawing each other.

Here are some sketches from the past two weeks.