Evaluation

Having completed all the research and drawings for my comic I have arrived at the end of the project and I can say that it has been a very educational experience. One of my main aims for this project was to actually finish a comic story idea which I feel I have accomplished with this project although there are aspects of it which I would have liked to be more finished: I would have liked to have finished colouring all the pages however I feel I have learned alot from the

colouring I did manage to do:

This was my first experiment colouring using photoshot, whilst I got some interesting results I felt that this style Of colouring that I was doing didn't fit with my style of drawing

Origional sketch

I decided to try a different more simple style of colouring which would add transparent colours so you could still see the lines underneath and could be layered like watercolour. This technique

worked alot better with my style of drawing.

although I only got to colour about 8 sheets in total out of the 30 I drew this really helped me to develop my skills on photoshop. I feel much more confident with using photoshop and I look forward to further developing my skills and finishing the colouring process on the remaining sheets after the project.

I also feel that this project has helped me gain a much better understanding of how comics work. Through research and my own work I have alot more knowledge about how panels and text lead on to each other in comics and the different art styles required depending on the story.

I also feel that my skills in terms of research have improved alot as well because although I had already read alot of the material I used for research in my project I look a them in a different more analytical way which helped me not only gain a better understanding of how they worked but it also gave me more insight into the stories themselves and in some Developed colouring style cases I discovered new things about them that I had missed in prior readings.

I have also improved and developed my style of drawing and feel that there is now more identity im my work, I have even improved upon some of my existing ideas from years ago which is a very useful benefit because this puts me in a better opportunity to revisit them and finish them.

more sketches

Here are some more sketches I have done for creatures in my comic

final idea sketches

Here are some more sketches for my idea:

final idea and influence

I have come to a final idea of a story line for my comic. This is a story I came up with a few years ago and have some sketches that I did for it back then. As a child I was very much into dinosaurs, this interest spawned from many different things including books, films, cartoons, museums and toys that I collected. something I always was always very curious about was what it would be like if dinosaurs and people lived side by side in the same time period. The story I came up with dipicts just that.

a sketch for the idea

The comic follows a tribe of people who live and work alongside eachother, helping out one another similar to the relationship we share with many animals in real life, some of the tribe are brought up along side dinosaurs so they form a kinship and can preform for tasks like hunting, fighting and fighting sidby side as a unit, this story will be about the relationship they share and how they live together.

Gon

Gon by Masashi Tanaka has been a great influence for this idea. besides the fact that the protagonist is a small d

inosaur, the main inspiration has been the art and the format. This comic is purely image based and relys on the panel structure and art to tell the story rather than any text which fits well with my style and the fact that english isn't one of my strong points.

gon

Story idea 2: The Road

'The Road' would be a graphic novel split into different stories revolving around five different characters. The central story arc is that earth has been linked to a city in the centre if the galaxy/universe (haven't decided yet) via a gateway aka 'The Road'.; This central city is linked to countless other planets meaning that extraterastrial interaction has become the norm in this day and age. The characters would be different people from this time from both earth and other worlds.

Story Idea 1

My first story Idea is one that I have shown sketches for and have gone briefly into in previous posts. Earth (or atleast what is shown of it in the story) has had much of it's cities and societies destroyed and left in ruins from a bygone war between machines and robots. This war while essentially having been won by the humans has left them with little to build from.

This story shows mankind's struggle to rebuild civilisation. It follows characters from a small community going about daily life and surviving and battling rougue robot enemies from the old war which emerge from the reckage and threaten them.

(One of the first sketches I did based on this story idea)