Refined Sketches & Assets
Below are some detailed sketches that I created vs some of the coloured in ones that I decided to draw properly. I wanted to take some of my sketches from my finished storyboards and colourise them and make them into final illustrations. I wanted to do this so that I’d have a full idea of what my finished project would look like in the art style I was trying to create and also an idea of the style of colouring to use on the assignment as a whole. I decided that my art style for the comic would be very deep in tone and be very realistic in colour whilst still keeping with the comic style. I wanted there to be not much line art within the pieces and the backgrounds and characters to really bring attention to the most interesting parts of the image. The characters or most important part of the scene will be the centre of attention to the viewer by using the line art within these areas, it will really add definition to these places and add interest.
When creating the coloured versions of these sketches and finalising them into pieces that I can add to pages I wanted to make sure that there was consistency within the pieces themselves and the art style used. I used the same brushes for each one and wanted the backgrounds to be quite sketchy and colourful whilst still adding to the atmosphere of the piece. I used a textured brush for a lot of the background elements and a brush I found that replicated an ivy like pattern to add some depth and dimension to the pieces. I kept the characters quite sharp with their sketchy line art to really add some personality to the character within the scene and make her stand out. I think these colours and drawing styles really work together to make some professional looking artwork which will really work within my webcomic pages and really will lead to an interesting final piece.
Page Style
Below is an example of the style that my final piece will be in and how I want the project as a whole to look. I really wanted to take one of my sketched pages and create something like this so I could conclusively see how the piece would look when the art is finished for the final project and the text is properly added onto the piece. I took the artwork that I made in the above section to try out my colouring style for the comic and added it to a page that I was creating. This is one of the final pages, I really wanted to play around with how all of the sections and art pieces would interact together and connect to each other. I wanted to follow quite a traditional webcomic style and have the pieces merge together into one long running page for each section. I found a font within Procreate that I think worked really well and added the text onto the page that I created, I wanted the text to be all in capitals and quite bold so it would stand out regardless of the background used. I ended up using a lot of gradients for the joins within the images and used the ivy brush that I used on the artwork to really blend everything together. I think I was really able to emulate the layout of a webcomic properly and make it look really authentic and put together. I really love how it turned out and will be using the colour palette and fonts etc as a guide for my other pages for this project.
List of Assets I Want to Create
This is a list of assets that I am creating for this assignment that can be reused or combined into different assets to allow consistency throughout the piece. Making this list really allowed me to see the parts that I needed to create for the sketches and the pages themselves and where they needed to be used. It also allowed me to work on my time management by seeing how many pieces I theoretically have to make for my assignment and plan out how long it will take to have all of it done. I suspect it will take me a week or two to create each section of the comic from the sketches I have created into the full colour designs. I am basing this of the time it took me to create the page above and the artworks used within it. Having a set amount of environments for within the story means that my backgrounds can be reused to make the pages look coherent together.
| Asset Name | Variations | Type | Used In |
| Character 1 | Front, Close Up, Back | Character | All |
| Character 2 | Front, Close Up, Back | Charcter | All |
| Sword | Full, Close Up | Items | End |
| Ruined Church | Full, Close Up, Zoomed sections | Environment | End |
| Forest | Full, Close Up, Zoomed sections, Ivy variation | Environment | Middle |
| Bridge | Full, Close Up, Zoomed sections, broken bridge | Environment | Middle |
| Castle Nation 1 | Full, Close Up, Zoomed sections | Environment | Beginning |
| Castle Nation 2 | Full, Close Up, Zoomed sections | Environment | Beginning |