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Chapter 1 - Page 12

Kiah

on Feb. 29, 2008

So…you may notice some differences here…hopefully you like them. Personally, I feel really good about this page. After doing that illustration of Petre and Mia, I seem to have a better handle on colour and whatnot and I wanted to apply that to the comic.

Basically I changed the panelling style, used a paint style brush instead of hard colour, used more colours to accentuate dark areas, made more fluid actions with more dynamic camera angles, and took the new frames and bent them to be more in line with the action. Whew!

I had some setbacks on this page, unfortunately…It took me forever to work the thumbnail out, I wasn't going to do another page of zombie fights but without it, things would have been confusing. So I'd started a different page and then had to go back to do this one. I spent like 4 hours trying to work out camera angles, got my inks mostly done, sized it down to show to Ashwara from Para-Ten to get his opinion and…BLAM…saved over the file and closed it. I had to go back and re-ink EVERYTHING and then colour.

Let's just say I'm glad I got it done and I'm pretty happy with it. Thanks to everyone offering constructive criticism! This is what makes a better comic artist :)