Evaluation

Comic

This shows photographic evidence of the final piece which has been printed and glued together in order to produce the comic.

Comic Online

The full version of the comic can be seen above as a PDF, a hardback copy has also been printed out.

Colour Schemes

After the Jeffrey Brown copy and emulation I decided not to use acrylic or watercolour paints as I felt that I needed a lot more time in order to get to grips with painting and colour. As a result I already had the idea of producing a black and white comic, I didn't see this being a huge issue as many comic artists do publish their comics in black and white, especially independent artists. As well as this I wanted to keep the seriousness of the comic, despite there being the odd joke here and there, I wanted the audience to focus on the story rather than focusing on the drawing and colour more. Anyway, despite this I did experiment within Photoshop with colour as this shows experimentation and that I've tried other mediums.

This is a coloured version of the panel, the colours of the books need adjusting as I think these are too vibrant for the scene, especially the green book. Despite the colours of the books I do think that adding colour within Photoshop worked relatively considering this was the first attempt at colouring a panel within Photoshop.

This is the same panel except this uses a monochromatic colour scheme which focuses on a black and white effect. Overall this works well as the black and white effect allows the different elements within the panel to stand out, contrasting the different elements e.g. the piece of paper on the grey desk.

This is the third attempt at colour, again this uses a monochromatic colour scheme. This version uses a blue colour scheme this has been achieved by using different tones of blue throughout the highlight the different areas of the panel. This allows the elements to contrast one another due to the different tones used.

Comic - Photoshop Clean

In order to produce a high quality comic, cleaning the comic is part of the process which occurs within Photoshop. This allows me to remove any pencil lines from the comic and enhance the inked lines by adjusting the levels within Photoshop.

Before

After being cleaned.

After being cleaned

The screenshots show the difference between the original scanned version and the cleaned Photoshop version. This shows the pencil lines being removed and the inked lines being enhanced by adjusting the levels.

Final - Inking Panels

This post evidences inking the various different panels as well as the development of inking the panels, showing the progression at different stages.

During inking this panel some mistakes were made as too much ink was used on the brush when inking. 

Therefore I redrew the panel in order to ink the panel again, although halfway through inking I realised I could have edited the lines in Photoshop..

Final Piece - Thumbnails

The thumbnails shown within this post show the initial ideas for each panel and how these would be split up if need be. The thumbnails were useful as this allowed me to refer to them when producing the final panels for the comic. 

Using a grid

After reviewing the dummy a grid has been created to enable me to draft each panel properly. The grid is split 9 boxes which enables me to work according to my dummy as several panels are split into 3. However 9 panels won't be used on one page, the grid allows me to use this as a reference to ensure that the boxes are equally (also prevents any OCD tantrum). Once the drafts have been completed this will allow me to draw out the panels ( the majority of the pages will consist of 4 panels, others will consist of either 2:3 or 2:1) enabling me to ink over the drafts to create the final versions which will then be scanned and edited using Photoshop. 

Comic Cover - Photoshop and Drafted

This shows the original painting before any additional elements have been added to the painting such as the title and the author.

After comparing the two designs (front and back) by creating a mock up of these, I decided to use on design for the whole spread rather two. I felt that the two designs were good however after combining these within photoshop I didn't feel that they worked well as a front and back cover. Therefore I decided to use the field drawing painting rather than the mountain painting for the cover spread. The reason being is that the comic contains two panels which are very similar to the design, one being almost identical. Therefore I felt that this would work better, as well as this I felt that the colour scheme worked better compared to the mountain painting.

This is the final layout for the cover of the comic. This shows that the positioning of the text has been further drafted as the positioning of these has changed from being situated to the left to now being located within the middle of the comic. The typeface for the author has also changed, as I felt this should contrast the title of the comic therefore I changed the typeface and reduced the size of the typeface.

Back Cover

After sketching out the scamps for the cover it allowed me to narrow down my options for creating the back cover. I decided to go with a forest/hill type scenery as I felt that this was appropriate for the back cover as it fits in with the comic. The images below shows the evidence of progression and developments when creating this piece. 

This evidences the final piece which shows that the design has been successfully painted, this version will be scanned to the computer to allow me to edit the levels within Photoshop.

This is the final piece for the back cover, this version has been edited within Photoshop which involved adjusting the levels. This allows the brightness of the painting to be increased, further enhancing the overall painting.