Week 11 Minor Project

This week I finally finished the shading for each element of my page.

Although the focus of this week was not primary on that: I looked a bit more into detail on how to place all the elements in the best way possible on a single page if I could. I looked into: The Legend of Zelda Hyrule Historian (Publisher: Mike Richardson) published by Dark Horse and Nintendo, How To Train Your Dragon: The Lost World published by Linda Sunshine published by Dark Horse Comics, Nimona by Noelle Stevenson published by Harper Teens; Penny Blackfeather by Francesca Dare published by Sloth Comics and Windershins by Kate Ashwin, self-published. I collected these few resources over the years and I picked them as examples because they vary a lot from one another, one is videogame based, another for an animated movie, the other is a well-known graphic narrative, the one after is quite different in the approach of showing her work from the first, and last but not least, a self-published graphic narrative with paging quite different from the other graphic narratives. This time I focused on how each page where presented, other than focusing on the characters themselves.

I will not put the actual images on this blog post for fear of copyright, but here are the notes for the relevant pages for this project:

Following these notes I begun to experiment a little, but I was running out of time to complete the work for the crit, so there is not much:

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The final:

I had some problems to achieve what I wanted to crate, the hands components where a disaster to put in place, but I was finally able to place them somewhere I could find them easier on the eyes.

Screenshots of the work below.

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I also wanted the page to have a ‘theme’ of sorts, for both Hyrule Historia and HTTYD: The Lost World, had a parchment-like texture on the page that brought everything together nicely, so I took the initiative to look into all the texture brushes available on Krita: here the results:

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I decided on the y)_Screentones_Regular, because it somewhat reminds me of pixels, as my story is supposed to be a sci-fi, utopian/dystopian focused I thought that would be the perfect background.

For the text I decided to keep the same font, as it is a bit less wide than Calibri and Aria on the page, and I did not have much space left, the placing was a bit harder and produced two variants.

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I chose the more centre one: