View Full Version : Graphic Novel - First Page!! (Artists needed!)
white horse
07-07-2010, 12:05 AM
Woo hoo!
After many years of writing I have managed to at last start to draw out the pages.
There's approx 12x30x3 pages! 1 down!
And agreeing with Hagbard about giving sneak previews before a work isfinished I am going to show it here for you all to ponder and rip apart or enjoy! :cool:
(Bearing in mind that this is the first page of the story, there will be a cover page and an inside cover page before this - so this is really page 3, after this is the Titles page; so this page is like the pre-credits bit. Page 5 then startsf the main character's story...)
Interested in your reactions :)
First draft:
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4004/page01a4.jpg
This exercise started as an attempt to create some rough story boards to accompany the scripts so that artists could draw them for me. However, I'm now toying with styles/formats and may refine the style and draw some of the thing myself!!
Sheesh! :eek:
firstlook
19-07-2010, 03:52 AM
its good!! :D
gabeygoat
19-07-2010, 06:08 AM
i dig it
bloodredsky
19-07-2010, 07:42 AM
Nice job so far.
ambler1980
19-07-2010, 08:37 AM
great work...i like how unpolished it is...keep it very raw like that as much as you can.
white horse
19-07-2010, 09:48 PM
great work...i like how unpolished it is...keep it very raw like that as much as you can.
Hey guys thanks for the feedback. Such a relief to get something down in graphic form after so many years of writing it - finally broken the duck!
The other pages are coming along now.
As for the unpolished look, that is kinda the point - glad that comes across! I'm heavily resisting making it loo like any other comic/graphic novel. It gets so hard sometime when you've read the same panels 14 thousand times ove!
28 and a half pages to go!
Thanks folks - appreciate that :)
guuna
20-07-2010, 11:55 AM
wrote an attempt at a graphic novel myself some years ago. It was a one man army affair with me as writer, illustrator, the works.
i'll post it up again on my blog sometime soon and get to work on some other ideas.
it's alot of hard work and arduous as fok, but perseverence is the key.
looking good so far and keep it up.
size_of_light
20-07-2010, 12:47 PM
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4004/page01a4.jpg
Very good stuff.
I personally think it be more effective if instead of having the kid looking out of the window say "Wow!" you just kept it blank and let his expression tell the story. It's an awesome panel.
Brilliant, I love how 'books' like this reach into the imagination straight away, again I advocate the 'simple' style, it really helps to concentrate on whats going on and gives the reader the option to embellish it with their imagination.
Some of my favourite books have been what is called 'Comics', Neil Gaiman being one of my favourites, which I only discovered 5 years ago. The John Constantine stuff, which I didn't know till now (after checking on wiki) was modelled on Sting from the Police and played by Keanu Reeves in the film "Constantine"
Storm Constantine is another author I reallly got into a bout 10 years or so ago, I think her stuff would be great as a 'Comic' experience, I don't know many people on this forum who know of her work, but I would recommend it.
Many more I can't recall just now, and don't want to bore everyone.;)
white horse
20-07-2010, 10:42 PM
Very good stuff.
I personally think it be more effective if instead of having the kid looking out of the window say "Wow!" you just kept it blank and let his expression tell the story. It's an awesome panel.
Hmmmm... interesting. That was a last minute throw in - filling an empty gap with speech! A weekness we all fall into at times!
It doesn't need it does it... it's not adding anything... in fact it increases the dramatic tension of the scene without it.
well spotted - good eye!
Brilliant, I love how 'books' like this reach into the imagination straight away, again I advocate the 'simple' style, it really helps to concentrate on whats going on and gives the reader the option to embellish it with their imagination.
Some of my favourite books have been what is called 'Comics', Neil Gaiman being one of my favourites, which I only discovered 5 years ago. The John Constantine stuff, which I didn't know till now (after checking on wiki) was modelled on Sting from the Police and played by Keanu Reeves in the film "Constantine"
Storm Constantine is another author I reallly got into a bout 10 years or so ago, I think her stuff would be great as a 'Comic' experience, I don't know many people on this forum who know of her work, but I would recommend it.
Many more I can't recall just now, and don't want to bore everyone.;)
Have you ever checked out Cerebus... highly highly recopmended if you like simple an effective. Also his mate's comic Bone. Again very simple style with brilliant story telling.
Thanks all for the feedback... :) is helpful :) fanx!
griffinman
01-08-2010, 08:07 AM
It's great, love the style..