The most difficult part of this task is to develop an actual story which will be understandable, clear and make sense to the reader. Also it needs to be short, so life thoughts are not going to fit. To extend my purview I went back to my images which I took in the Comic shop to look up for some reference. In the end I didn't received any desired result. Than I started to think about interesting moments I have experienced in my life. I remembered one funny episode from my childhood. In brief - when I came back home from the school I was extremely tired and went straight to sleep. The next thing I remember was that I woke up and it was dark outside like usually happens when its 7 in the morning at winter time. I went to the bathroom and prepared for the school, my mum was at the kitchen like always. I shod, took a jacket and said goodbye to my mom. I can imagine how surprised she was hearing that. She explained me that it is 7am. I was so confused and happy at the same time as my hike to the school was postponed.
The first draft of the comic
This Idea seemed attractive purely because it was short, did not had any overloaded meaning and eventually - easily doable. Time is money, so I started to draw my first drafts. I figured out how to arrange boxes and filled them with drawings. I was pleasant with the work I have done.
After short discussion with my tutor I found out that my narrative doesn't really work. The beginning of the story was understandable, but the second page went wrong as the reader was loosing the sequence. I was forced to admit that I didn't spend too much time on detail detection. By this I mean small sub-boxes with explanatory drawings which would help me to keep the narrative clear. Basically the story itself was okay, but on practice - not. This was the fault of the amount of boxes which I have used. At least my drawing style was warmly accepted After the dialogue with my tutor I learned one important thing - I need to think simple when it comes to such tasks. I decided to create another story. Completely new story.
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| First sketches of my second comic. I paid attention to the detail to present it as professionally as I can |
Continued sketching process
The space where my story will begin actually exist in the country where I came from. I remember that place in detail so the design of the background was not required. For the actual plot I have used my imagination. At that moment I felt that I would like to create an interesting and beautiful narrative. Two kids are letting go a raven after long period of nursing his broken wing. I was very inspired by this story I have just developed so I tried to make my drawings in an appropriate style.
I have never drawn any human figures before, so this task was an training at the same time. I have used many attempts before final lines were drawn. I was proud of my success. The only thing I left for later was the dialogue between those two kids. I wanted to speak with my tutor first to find out what kind of issues do I have with this story. I was not greatly surprised when my tutor told me that this story works much better than the previous one but still there were some minor issues which are easily editable when it comes to the Photoshop and printing. At this moment I need to develop a strong dialogue which will beautify my visual narrative. Also I need to punder what kind of paper I am going to use for my final piece.
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| Finished artwork without the dialog |
After I finished my comic, I realized that I need to present it in some acceptable way. The issue was that my comic was created and stored in my sketchbook and I can't draw another one and scan it neither. I could not use scanner simply because it would loose so much detail from my fork as I had many fine lines and specifics. I decided to detach pages which I have used for my comic and sew them together.
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| Finalized draft with ongoing process of the dialogue creation |
This decision gave a look of a shabby sheet of a paper so I burned it perimeter with the lighter to give a look of an ancient scroll. So hold the comic in scrolled form I tried to use a wax seal but I didn't work for me so I have simply used a red thread which gave a fancy look to my creation.
I thought that this scroll cannot be presented like this and it needs a storage. The best way to store it was to use a box. I have visited some art supply shops to ask if the y have any small spare boxes. After denial I decided to create my own one. I bought a cardboard sheet which served me as the main material and used my knowledge from my previous experience of crafting to draw a shape of my box.
The outcome looked too boring for me so I decorated its lid with a shape of the feather which I cut out with my scalpel knife.
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| Decorated box |
The scroll fit perfectly into thebox and my work was ready to submit
