More eComic Concept Art. I’m doing a full length concept of Sylen Benevolen now but I’m having a real battle with his legs. I’ve redrawn them about 4 times, hence the time spent is now at 3 hours for this.
Project ADC-1: 14 August 2015
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Project ADC-1 update. After analyzing the project metrics, I’ve realised that as things stand, I will over-run by about a year! Therefore, I have made a major project adjustment and cut down the scope of the story to just cover the first act. After all this I’ll still miss my deadline by a couple of weeks so I’ll have to come up with another plan to catch up.
Work Completed During The Last 2 Weeks:
- Idea Brainstorming: –
- Character Design: Arbitrary updates to the character profiles and posted on the Project Page.
- High Level Plot: –
- Script: Completed the first draft for the 8 page prologue.
- Concept Art: Started a second concept painting of Sylen Benevolen (3 hrs so far).
- Storyboard: –
- Full Art: –
- Lettering: –
- Package As .cbz: –
- Testing: –
- Publishing: –
Work Planned For The Next 2 Weeks:
- Idea Brainstorming: –
- Character Design: –
- High Level Plot: –
- Script: –
- Concept Art:
- Sylen Benevolen Painting 2
- Iyeon The Winged Panther
- Castle Ruins
- Storyboard: –
- Full Art: –
- Lettering: –
- Package As .cbz: –
- Testing: –
- Publishing: Integrate Selz as an eShop on this website and make a dummy .cbz available as a free download.
Project ADC-1 Comicbook Script
The Comicbook Script for Project ADC-1 is also now up in the Project Deliverables section. This is my first attempt at a comicbook script. I did do a bit of research on how to do this properly but I have also posted this on Digital Webbing Forums to see if I get any critique that will steer me along the right track.
Project ADC-1 Character Design Sheet
I’ve put up my latest ADC-1 Character Design Sheet in the Project Deliverables section of my Project Code: ADC-1 page. This sheet contains information on the characters in this comic. Only part of the information has been filled in at the moment, I will flesh these characters out a bit more as I go.
Link Added: Digital Webbing Forums
For some weeks now I’ve been a member of Digital Webbing Forums – a community dedicated to creating comics. For me it is a gold mine of information and valuable feedback. I have added it to my Links page.
Digital Comics Tools
I am maintaining a page of tools that can be used for the creation, packaging, publishing and viewing of digital comics here: Digital Comics Tools.
Project ADC-1: 30 July 2015
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Project ADC-1 update. Since the last project update I’ve been switching between different tasks on my Digital Comics Workflow:
- Idea Brainstorming: –
- Character Design: Partially filled in a character profile for all of my characters – there are 7 so far.
- High Level Plot: –
- Script: Got to page 4 (out of 20) of my first draft.
- Concept Art: Completed a head concept painting of my main protagonist.
- Storyboard: –
- Full Art: –
- Lettering: Created my first word balloon in Manga Studio.
- Package As .cbz: Made my first cbz file using 7-Zip.
- Testing: –
- Publishing: Created a Selz account a few weeks ago and uploaded a test image file.
Page Added: Character Profile Template
I’ve just added a Character Profile Template page in the Writing section. I designed this template specifically for use with comics so it has a number of visual elements. If you find this useful, please feel free to copy and paste 🙂
Concept Art: Sylen Benevolen 1D
Project ADC-1 Concept Art. Did some fine tuning, added a speech bubble and added a background. I will leave this painting now and move on.
Digital Comics Workflow
The research I have done to date on creating and self publishing digital comics (specifically eComics) has led me to put together a Digital Comics Workflow which I have defined here. I will keep this workflow updated to reflect my latest learnings as I stumble along the way.