Ian Fay
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Morrigan - Update on the comic I'm working on
🕑 Added 2020-10-02 16:19:20 +0000 UTC I haven't shared comic pages here in ages, but since its been a big part of the last couple months, I wanna talk a little about it. SO, firstly, comics are goddamn hard! I mean like, I knew going in it'd be tough, but this is easily the toughest project I've worked on.
Morrigan is written by JP Jordan, will be lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, with design by Becca Carey. I'm doing the art and colour.
(Heres two recent inked pages)
Probably the part I struggle with most is the layout, the actual rough storytelling. I feel like working out an image in its most simple condensed form is not a strength of mine, so it can be like pulling teeth to figure out how to translate the script to the image in my head, and then onto the page.
You can see below, my roughs are crude as hell, and ive started using colour in them more to help them be more readable for me.
I'm definitely not near "one page a day" pace, but I do feel like im speeding up and figuring out shortcuts, getting used to the designs, and learning where to prioritize detail. I do still leave a decent portion of the 'drawing' for the colour stage later on, so i feel like some of my pages look a little plain in the inks without clouds, general background stuff and lighting. I really love drawing Nemain's hair haha, its like a big bunch of crows all packed tight.
ANYWAY, forgive the rambling nature of this, its sort of the first steps of me getting back into writing more about process and all that, but im way out of practice haha.
