You’ll remember than last week I submitted three possible covers for a graphic novel. Glenn found they all had the same problem: they represented three guys arguing but it was not clear (as it was in the brief that they were talking about some else.
Considering I’m here to learn and not to cut corners I redid the cover completely using bits of the three previous versions, and adding new stuff, I hope the compo will now be clear enough for him to accept (he’s supposed to be the client who gave me the brief)
Here it is, I also developed the colours as this is the second week on this project meaning that I was suppose to do a comp and not a ruff (rough, ok… 🙂
Meanwhile at the ranch: this is week two, and while I had to work on step two of the ruff made during week one, I have now a NEW brief from my client (aka teacher): lots of space leading to the characters who don’t take much space themselves.
This one drove me nuts, my fault: I first decided to do a painting or illustration this week, and for some reason I could not go past the doodle phase as if I could not draw anymore (if you’ve ever felt that, you’ll feel sorry for me and my pain).
In the end, after the composition chat during which we (the students) asked Glenn tons of questions, I finally understood I was thinking too much and wasting time going in circles. OK so I threw way what I had done so far started again pretending once that I was doing a cover for a graphic novel – and that alone unstuck me, something in the fact of having a title, having to do well designed (or not too poorly designed) characters makes me work better.
Here are my two subs, I can tell you the story inside each of those graphic novels, like for the first week one. I might have a graphic novel streak in me! Please don’t tell my mum, she thinks I’m drawing nude people in well lit but cold live drawing hideouts 😀
Here we go for week 2’s ruffs:
Whichever Glenn chooses for developement I know I will, when I have the time, develop both.