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Faulkner Comic Update 9/10

Added 2020-09-10 08:07:43 +0000 UTC

If you include the cover which hasn't been planned yet (I now know that its the last thing that you should draw), this comic has come out to 13 pages. or a 20 pages PDF once you include things like the cover padding, the artist bio, and thank-you page with all of your names.

Things I've learned so far:

The power of 3. I was cribbing from Toriyama of all people when doing this by not thinking about a page in terms of panels but in terms of rows. 3 rows is the sweet spot. Almost like you're playing music.
Having a script is essential. While it wasn't Shakespeare, having something to refer back to made laying out the panels super easy, because a lot of the paneling work already accounted for.
Faulkner is big, your argument is invalid. I only had design doll crash on my once, but that didn't mean that Faulkner's unique shape didn't present some interesting challenges. There were time I had to actually make his hands and arms even BIGGER to make certain things look right. So (and this is weird to explain) at one point if you were to see the scene I was working in without all the camera warping I was using. You would have seen that Faulkner's hand was my entire house!

I'm happy to have gotten these taken care of so relatively fast because now I can just focus on drawing, both this and other things.

For now I want to focus on just doing 2 pages at a time, and see how things go. Because I'm not sure which approach is right for me. On one side you have AntiDev who produces a fully finished picture once a week, but then on the other side you have BlackShirtBoy who does things in passes -full comic sketched, then full comic inked, and so on.

The goal is to avoid burnout at all costs.

And thank you for being understanding during my social media hiatus. Working on this is definitely making me feel better.