Sunflower
Saturday, April 18th, 2009
| I’ve recently discovered an awesome feature of my gallery plugin, NextGEN Gallery, which allows me to display single images, and to prevent the layout from looking all screwy, I have to write a lot about the picture (not a bad thing, I guess). So here goes my first try.
This is the first page of my mini-comic, Sunflower. My markers were super fresh before I started… Panel 1 established my motif of the shadow people, part looking awesome and part me being too lazy to draw so many people in detail. I don’t like how Sunflower looks in this panel. Too much like a blow-up doll. Eww. I’m very happy with panel 2, except for the bottom black square. I couldn’t think of anything more interesting to put there. Panel 3 was pretty fun, and I got to use my oft-neglected airbrush. |
| I got a bit lazy on panel 1 of page 2. I’ll admit it. I dont think it takes that much away. I probably could’ve put some sort of indication of a background in like I did in the previous panel. The next panel I also like. I think I got the perspective and western-y feel down. The next 2 combined panels got messed up because I didn’t use a drafting T (you know what I’m talking about) and I forgot I was putting the 2 together so the perspective on the awning got screwed. I could’ve fixed it with Photoshop if I wasn’t going to show it off less than 24 hours from when I scanned this. |
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| Page 3 is the most…simple. I had a bit of trouble planning out exactly how many panels I needed to draw and what orientation each was. Despite this, I think the top panel came out very well. The perspective isn’t perfect, but I think it has a very “Fistful of Dollars” sorta feel to it. I don’t think it’s sup apparent that Morning Glory saw Moonflower earlier. The lower panel was when I really started to rush with this project. You can tell because there are large black spaces and Morning Glory has a noodle arm. |
| The top double panel on page 4 more or less killed one of my favorite markers. Luckily I only used it on half of the page. The right half is fairly obvious Photoshop computer magics. I thought it would be funny to give the cowboys swords (even though Moonflower isn’t much of a cowboy.) The sceond panel took me a while because I’ve never really drawn a skeleton before. I was ruching at this point and didn’t pay so much attention. I think it made it look sorta cartoony like Mexican Cinco de Mayo skeletons. Which is fine by me. |
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| This was a great experience, but next time I do it, I for sure won’t use markers. It kills them too fast. |