On Friday the feedback was mostly positive. People seemed interested in the concept and ideas behind the book, which whilst also being the most important thing to nail at this point is also very valuable to me. At this point I had done no mockups and very little storyboarding and this was picked up on!
I'm keen on using a simple colour palette. I tried experimenting with watercolours but found they weren't ideal for overlapping techniques, and just looked a bit messy.
Once again I was drawn back to pencil work, this time working in more limited palettes.
I am enjoying monochrome schemes
I tried adding colour to the monochrome pencil work digitally but it looked flat and fake and disrupted the feel. It worked much better when I added it with another colour pencil.
Advice from today's tutorial
- First and last pages- they need to pack more of a punch to suit the rest of the book! It was suggested I turn these into single page images that follow the same atmosphere and narrative of the middle spread.
- Colour palettes. I was imaging a book consisting of entirely the same palette, but am now re-evaluating this. I can imagine the large middle image in the bright rainbow colours I drew it in before. The first and last images I'd like to be coherent, maybe a simple graphite. For the rest of the comics, I'd like a matching colour scheme of only two or three colours. That said, that doesn't mean that the primary focus colour in each one can't be different from the next.
- I was worried that the tree passing over the seasons would be too cliche, but was told not to necessarily avoid the obvious! The obvious can work as a simple and useful recognisable visual device.
- Always push perspectives and pacing to make a book people want to read!
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