The initial excitement has faded a bit, which is a good thing because now I'm in a better headspace to approach this comic calmly.
One idea I have now is to add a rough outline of what the protagonist thinks they look like and have the text boxes point to the spots feeling extra weird. This allows me to shorten the descriptions, too, which suits a comic better.
I think I can show you this without spoiling a lot since it's very much in flux. This is how I plan the comic for the next x pages. It's writing the story and making sketches rolled into one step.
I wish Affinity had some more options for guide lines that aren't just horizontal or vertical. You can set up a grid of any shape, but it isn't the same.
I probably also like to wing my projects because I have zero qualms about throwing away intermediate results. I still had fun working on them and learned something, and maybe they're still useful in some way, so that's fine by me.
I think I mentioned it before, but I find it super weird if a reincarnation story starts with birth and the person can already think like a fully grown adult. It makes way more sense to me to use a brain development milestone as entry point.
@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.
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