October 2010
4 posts
A brief history of the Future
This was supposed to be a post about the setting for the comic I’m working on, instead I’m going to talk about setting in general.
In any story there are characters, the interaction of these characters with each other, themselves, and their environment is essentially what makes up a story. One of my favorite authors Scott McCloud (Reinventing Comics) describes a very common pitfall of...
It's been a while
Sorry for it taking so long to post here! I’ve been super busy with the second part of the comic Tracer and starting a new job as well as trying to figure out what I’m going to be doing after the first of the year.
This particular post is not going to be about any development of media or content, instead I’m going to complain about my life and such; please feel free to...
Evolution of a Page (Part 4)
The final part in my Evolution of a Page series is putting on all the finishing touches on the page and making it look b-e-a-utiful, though possibly the best advice I’ve gotten from Clayton (the programmer) during this project is “it doesn’t have to be perfect, we’re making a comic book not painting the Mona Lisa. Although I have strived to sustain some level of artistic...
Evolution of a Page (Part 3)
In commemoration of finishing the first of many Tracer comics on the Android Market I am going to go over the pencil stage of creating a page. I work on a 3x5 scale so when I physically draw out a page I work on a 9”x15” grid for the page, at this scale my borders in between panels is 1/5” which I also use as the hight of the text I put on the page. Before anything else I use my...
