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and this is the character design layout for the solo. I like most of them, but the dad still needs work

Timeline, sketches, and projections for Solo Comic

THE TIMELINE AND BENCHMARK LAYOUT

Week 1-Week2: Research and Development Stage

                Concept sketches, research different styles of comics, figure out a story

Week 3: Goal- Have story written, begin storyboards

                Benchmark- Have story written

                Study- Look at multiple styles of comic artists and see what they did to make the characters look the way they do; line work, shading, backgrounds, color

Week 4: Goal- Have storyboard finished, characters created, start to build panels

                Benchmark- Have Characters finished, storyboard 50% complete

                Study- Learn how to make panels, scene setup, panel placement, etc.

Week 5: Goal- Panels laid out, begin penciling

                Benchmark- Storyboard complete, Panels built

                Study- Penciling and inking techniques, color and cell shading

Week 6: Goal- Penciling complete, begin color

                Benchmark- Penciling complete

                Study- color, ink, and cell shading, bubble placement, onomatopoeia

Week 7: Goal- Inking and color 50% finished

                Benchmark- Inking and bubble placement complete, begin color

                Study- cell shading, marketing, and post-production

Week 8: Goal- Color finished, begin cell shading

                Benchmark- Color finished

                Study- post-production, printing, etc.

Week 9: Goal: Shading finished, begin lettering

                Benchmark: Shading finished

                Study- lettering and typography, post-pro

Week 10: Goal- Ready to Print

                Benchmark- Ready to Print

                Study- Marketing and self-expression

Week 11: Finals. 

STORYLINE AND PAGE SETUP

PAGE 1

Opening- est. view of a high school

                View of a school hallway, students walking, lockers, talking

                Braceface at her locker- small panel to the side

                Gay kid- shuts locker- small panel

                Word panel- “Hey Queer!”

                Close up of gay kids face- eyes wide

PAGE 2

                Half page panel- Bully shoving kids, others looking away

                Triple Panel:

Grabs gay kid- in face “homophobic comment”

                                Gets in braceface’s face (gay kid to the side, looking hurt) “Misogynistic comment”

                                Walks down hall- knocks fat nerd’s books out of his hands

PAGE 3

                Nerd picks up his books, kneeling, looks after bully, scowls

                Braceface stands next to gay kid, comforting him

                Bully high-fives jock boy

                Nerd walks to gay kid and braceface, the three of them glare at bully

                Third page panel: gay kid yells “HEY! TRAILER TRASH!”

PAGE 4

                Bully turns around, mad

                Three kids stand united- braceface: “We’ve had enough of this!”

                Middle-Third panel: gay kid punches bully in face

                Triple panel:

                                Braceface kicks to chest

                                Gay kid uppercuts jaw

                                Nerd pins bully against locker “How do you like it?!”

PAGE 5

                Full page- Bully lies in middle of deserted hallway- defeated in a heap

PAGE 6

                Walks home alone, head hung in shame

                Small inlet panel- shabby apartment walkup

                Bully walks indoors

                OTS bully- drunk father sitting on couch mindlessly watching tv

PAGE 7

                Triple panel

                                Bully stands next to father. Father: “the hell do you want?”

                                Close up bully: “I kind of had a bad day, dad..”

                                Close up dad: “Yeah? Well I’ve had a bad life.”

                Double panel

                                Walks down hallway to bedroom

                                Low POV next to backpack- bully walks to bed

                Triple Panel

                                Front shot bully sitting on bed

                                Reaches for picture on nightstand

                                Close up picture of smiling woman with a kid (bully)

PAGE 8

                Full page panel

                                Aerial view, bully sits on bed, holds photo, shoulders slumped

                                Small inlet- face, single tear “I miss you, mom”

 

Rough design sketches for characters in Project 31

I really like the way Rebecca and William turned out.. the other ones need some revision

Here I am again!

Yeah, I'm back.. I took some time off for multiple reasons... but who am I kidding, it's not like anyone reads this thing anyway.

Anywho...

Exciting news on the comic front- I am working on a solo comic, nothing special- just an 8-page morality tale. But the cool part is it's all mine, so yay :)
Also, I won an award at an art contest last weekend, so yay again- really awesome experience, I'd never done anything like that before- once I figure out how to upload a pic from my phone onto the blog, I'll upload the photo
And last but not least, local author Zack Daggy and I are collaborating on a new project that I am SUPER excited about- can't say anything yet, but I'll post progress.

So yeah, that's the update, I've got progress pictures to come, so stay tuned!