While I have fallen behind on Sunnyville Stories #12, I do have some thumbnails to share with you.
I explained why doing thumbnails is important.
It is important to determine what your comic will look like beforehand. I need to make sure the story flows okay and I choose the right panels. One of the reasons here that I’ve fallen behind is that the twelfth story for Sunnyville is more unconventional. The story is being done like a detective story or a noir movie, complete with narration from Rusty. In this first page, it’s my intent to present this from Rusty’s “crime files” as if he’s a detective recounting a case of his.
The drawings are crude – characters are represented in thumbnails by stick figures for a reason. These are meant to be throwaway sketches intended to determine the positions and facing of characters as well as how they are arrange in the panels. On other pages, I also may have arrows indicating where they are looking or where they might be walking. Other notes that I need to know for the pencil stages are also scribbled in for my own reference.
I hope to have some pencils up in the next few posts. I also want to see about going back to two blog posts a week in the future.
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