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This is a weblog of one person's multi-year quest to write, draw, and publish a graphic novel. This is my story: my trials, tribulations, successes and failures. -- Robert Stradley, Weekend Artist On layouts and backups Ah layouts. Those wonderful thumbnail sketches that tell the Illustrator just what the script wants him to draw. Often done in conjunction with the Writer and Editor, they are the roadmap for individual panels. Why? Well in the webworld, it is not strictly important. But since the Editor wants to stick these all into a book sooner or later, it is somewhat important to make them look reasonable. That translates into connecting the panels into page design. Left and right hand pages. Flow from panel to panel so that the readers’ eyes are drawn in the correct direction, not around in circles or up and down when they should be looking right and left. Disorientation leads to dissatisfaction very quickly, and it also breaks the readers’ immersion in the story. According to the Editor, that is “NOT A GOOD THING.” So it is important to look at the future panels when drawing the current ones. It is even better to plan a bit first, before drawing, so panels don’t have to be redone from a different angle or viewpoint. On backups to Layouts Notes to self:
Well, I have about 70 panels to complete before I run out of work. I still have to resolve the problem of Shading. ---------------------------------------- Shading is an interesting topic for discussion. It can be done in blacks, it can be done in cross-hatch or line, it can be done in tone, or it can be done in the pencils and scanned. It all comes down to style. I am still fighting with the question of style for the Chronicles. Do I use the scratchy gritty shading of Prelude, do I go for the smooth glitz of tones, or do I use digital grey tones? Or some combination of the above? Not color, not yet. I think the Editor would hang me up by the thumbs if I made micefeet of the schedule and went all the way to color. Tones yes, color no. No matter how I try, I seem to be lacking something. See Prelude for examples of my problem. I think I finally need to get some professional advice. ----------------------------------------
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