SEQ-Art
Sequential Art (SeqArt) I finished thumbnailing 50 pages (2 issues) of my ~150-page graphic novel (6 issues released sequentially). I did some basic character designs focusing on the main shapes of the characters to make them visually “read” when seeing them on the page. I am working on getting the faces and expressions consistent enough before I dive into the detailing work on the issues. I have a specific set of tutorials I am working on in order to do this to the level of detail that I want for the book. One thing that has been a hang-up is the dialogue. The two main characters are easy to distinguish physically, but the dialogue is tripping me up a bit. The reason is that it needs to be so freaking tight to fit within a word balloon, to complement the visuals in the panel, and to reveal something about how the character thinks/feels etc. that cannot be conveyed through visuals. I have some decent banter between the two characters (longtime friends, university equivalent roommates), but I need to differentiate them a bit more. One is INTJ, the other is ENTJ… (yeah not the biggest difference, but important for my personal Festina Lente quest)… There will be other characters with much different personalities, but I gotta start with what I know. After I wrote the first 50 pages of story, I stepped back and am redoing following the snowflake method.