@coffee It's probably smarter to work like you, but winging it is just how I operate. I don't plan out my art either, while I've seen other artists make multiple sketches in advance and select the one they like most.
This waking up moment I've shown you, btw, is based on a moment I experienced IRL. I still remember it pretty clearly for such an old memory, given how strange it was.
It happened at kindergarten. I was eating breakfast with a few others, everyone chewing the food by opening and closing the mouth as children do. And out of nowhere, I realized how odd and repulsive it was to chew like this and started chewing normally from this point. It was as if my self-awareness kicked in.
So the idea is that the protagonist was reborn as a wyvern, but the comic starts some time later when this awareness kicks in.
I really need to think about the story now before I can proceed further. Namely, do I want there to be sibling(s)? At least one parent is a given because the intro with the darkness is the protagonist sleeping under the parent's wing.
I'm always unsure about the shading around the eye. What I see in other art is different from what looks good to me in mine. The last version imitated other art, now I did it my way.
Finishing the logo so quickly gave me time to think about the story. I completely revised the second page to flesh out the protagonist's internal state.
It's fun to think about how to tell a story through the presentation rather than the art itself or the narration. I could've just put a regular vector drawing at the end there, but the stylization really drives home the blinding lightness
I'm trying to find a way to have thought bubbles with a diffuse outline effect. I could draw them by hand and be done with it, but I'd rather use filters so I can avoid all of that hassle
I learned how to partially merge speech bubbles, and I also have ideas for the next 3 pages or so. I think my workflow will boil down to having a fluid storyboard to comic pipeline so that each page goes from text notes -> sketch -> (more detailed intermediate art) -> final art.
Today, I created the first two pages of the comic as a test to establish some basics: to see what tools I can use, the page size, speech and thought bubble designs, fonts, the narration... I feel pretty good about this.
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