30 Days, 30 Drawings: DAY 20A 3 panel comic strip. Yeah, pretty...

30 Days, 30 Drawings: DAY 20

A 3 panel comic strip.

Yeah, pretty much.

Project: Luka Drafts

Drafts for my comic project. It's based of Luka by Suzanne Vega, which is basically a song about a girl shrugging off the fact that she is abused.

 

Now the alternative story. These pictures were supposed to appear when you hovered over the original story. It's supposed to depict Luka's ordeal the night before the story started, as well as reveal what really happened. Originally, I was going to integrate these scenes into the story linearly, but taking to the account that the theme of hiding and wanting to do something "different", I chose this gimmick instead.

And I don't think I've posted this yet, so I'll post it now:

Me brainstorming for the project before I even took the class.

Made in openCanvas
Last picture pencil on graph paper

Project: MoV Graphic Novel Part 3 - Ze Actual Thing

...and, without furthur ado, here's actual comic.

The pages are black and white because I sent the pages to another guy who printed them out and coloured it like that. That's why only the cover has colour because I was in charge of printing that out (and I was shit scared that my colour printer, which was already running out of yellow ink, wouldn't make it).
Also, over half of them have words because at first, I was putting the text in myself. For the rest of it, I got another guy to do it. Like you'll understand it with or without text, though.

And yes, I found the Looney Toons part kind of... just thrown in for the hell of it. I do have to say that I did a good job (at least in some parts) of making them look like who they're supposed to be.

Oh yeah, I forgot that people read left to right in America. Woops.

Unfortunately, the rest of the colouring was not as kick ass as this.

Copyright infringement.

I actually like how Sylvestor looks here, standing there all stupid like.

Because they totally don't resemble who they're supposed to be.

...troll face.

"You realize, this means war!"

Bet you'll never guess who those three Daniels are (though you already wouldn't if you didn't go to school with me).

Pepe's got a gay crush on Bugs.

D'aw.

And this is exactly why I chose Pepe: he always ends up alone in his shorts.

Should've ended it with "That's All, Folks!" instead of a sad picture of (supposedly) Shylock.

While I was doing my individual evaluation of how the marks should be distributed around the group, when it came to one member, I wrote down "I honestly don't know" in the part where it says to list what they did. Though it's not entirely true, because I heard he coloured in two backgrounds.
Granted, I did hog a lot of work, lol. But that's because drawing's my forte.

Outlined in SAI,
Edited in Photoshop.
Cover made in openCanvas,
Edited in Photoshop.

Poor kitty, always being picked on by penguin

In psychology, we're learning about interpersonal relationships, but more specifically aggression. We were to make a comic strip of someone disengaging from a conflict. You know those things we were taught in school where if someone does something you don't like, say, "I don't appreciate you doing ___ and I'd like you to stop!" thing that you would never do because no one backs off? Well, that's the gist of it.

There was this one example that was hilarious and sad at the same time because the conflict was "resolved" but the guy getting picked on killing the dude picking on him. How peaceful, no?

INTERESTING FACT: Ever hesitate to do something because you thought "someone else would do it"? Well, everyone thinks like that. Many people die because, even though people would hear whomever in peril, no one does anything (some even watch the person die). By the time the police/ambulance arrive, they're dead. So moral of the story: call the damn police.

My 1st draft drawn in class. As you can see, there are two guys looking like they're constipated. Like how I tried to draw them in a "cartoony style"? I'm not one of those people who draw anime in everything; I know when it's appropriate. I switched the people into animals, though, as animals look cool and can be drawn stupid.
On the bottom with the ear and the part with the cloud and unicorn was my attempt to do a floor-chart-esque thing like some people have done and succeeded. Unfortunately, I don't have the genius to come up with something like that.

Final Product:

Poor kitty, always being picked on my penguin!

You get it? Is it funny? I don't think it's funny. No newspaper would accept this.

Technical part:
It's been a while since I've cracked out the good ol' pencil crayons/coloured pencils. For the past little while, it's all been my dear Copics, but I figured that: one) I need to save ink, and two) I haven't used them in a while.
I'm quite happy to report that, unlike me from grade 8 and 9, when I use pencil crayons, I try to add contrast in the colours. Failed, though, for the most part.

Man, is my room ever hot? Its' almost the end of fall and beginning of winter! Why is it so hot? And I can't stand hot. Bleh, me and my hyperthyroidism.


Drawn in pencil on printer paper.
Second picture inked in Faber-Castell Black PITT pen,
coloured with Prismacolours.