Word Smith Take Two

So, that comic workshop I've been running has still been going, even through NaNoWriMo and stuff has been happening. We're in the final stretch, though the workshop is going to run into January since we've skipped a couple of weeks due to people being away and will be adding 2 or 3 extra weeks of material related to figure drawing and perspective when all is said an done. But that's not a bad thing! It gives me some extra time to get ahead on my homework, and I might need it. After the one-page comic, we've started in on the final sequence of homework assignments which tasks us with creating a 6 page mini-comic. I've told my workshop participants to do anywhere from a 2 to 6 page comic (and they're all doing 2 pages) but as the leader, and because I'm a little bit crazy, I decided to do the full 6 pages. Hey, why not?

In order to make things a bit easier on myself, I decided to do the next episode of the 4 page mini-comic I did over the summer - it avoids me potentially starting yet another project that I might feel tempted to do something about at some time in the future and avoided having to spend too much time coming up with a new idea whilst I was embroiled in NaNoWriMo. I was a bit hesitant to just follow-up the summer mini-comic though as it seemed like I'd be short circuiting the character design process a little bit, but in the end I still have to do character designs for peoples' civilian outfits and the new set of villains.

The first task, as before, was to create thumbnails. I did my thumbnails at 1/4 size on two sheets of paper (conservation ftw), pictured below.

Of course, the small size (and my handwriting) probably means the dialogue's not terribly legible, but I'll be posting thing full version as it gets completed. The current goal is to have the first two pages fully pencilled and lettered by Tuesday next week (currently have all the roughs done), so they'll be posted sometime after that; some character designs might go up between now and then.

Freak Out,
-TFitC