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So after rereading these books and falling in love with them all over again, I've decided to turn them into a comic as I lack the resources to produce a high-budget TV show. I've started with #20 because the David trilogy is a good place to start, particularly as I then want to skip to my favourite, The Return, and he's kinda important in that one.
So here are the first few pages I've managed. Only done the cleaning/dialogue/SFX for the first page so far because it's late and it takes ages.
These three of David/the blue box will go on top of a background of the next picture.
Then there'll be a page or two of dialogue between Marco and David that I need to redraw.
I'm not the world's best artist by any stretch of the imagination but I felt the need to take this up as a hobby and figured some fans of the books here may be interested in giving me feedback. And non-fans are welcome too.
Edit: I have the cover designed, I just need to draw/ink it.
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Anyways these are very good! The panel structures are good, although I think some sections need more background details. (I do know drawing backgrounds is such a pain in the ass, so I don't blame you. )
Those are all in ink and I'm not going to shade with a black pen, except for a particular effect, as in one of the cells on the splash page and in the cover I've drawn but yet to scan. Ideally I'd like the shading to be done with colouring, but I stink at colouring so unless someone volunteers to do it, I will probably not get around to it.
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After I finish this fight scene, it shouldn't be too much longer before I'm in a position where I can wrap this issue up (even if it's before the book ends - if I can get to a part that I can easily place in the next one with Jake narrating) and then I can work on another cover.
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Your alien designs are very admirable, Claire. I think you got them spot on, and especially for the Visser's I think you really made a kinda iffy description into a very fantastic portrayal of what the creature was. That is to say, I think your art is making this creature work more than the initial writing. As for the Hork Bajir and the Andalites, you've captured them pretty perfectly how I would envision them. Indeed, improved on the tail blade of the Andalites a bit from some of the artistic portrayals I've seen.
Your page composition can get a little confusing, but I'd say to keep on keeping on regardless. It seems you're taking a lot of really rewarding risks with it, and it seems to pay off more often than not. I have a bit of difficulty telling EXACTLY what's going on in a scant few of the pages, but you impart a real motion and feel into the scene that I can't recommend removing.
Bumpity bump, update time. As I near the end of the book in terms of drawings (keep in mind, I'm stopping it after David makes his phone call and dumping all stuff after that into Jake's book), I've taken a quick break to clean/letter the next page in the scene I posted earlier.
And here is the revised version of the first page in this sequence. Many, many thanks to Rami for his suggestions, I think the sequence is a lot clearer now.
And despite that I've had a printed version of this in my sketchpad as spare scrap paper (and stared at it a lot), I've only just noticed a mistake. Go me.
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And a few unlettered pages from a bit further on. Small error: by this point in the series I think Marco's dad had pulled his shit back together and they were in a house again, but that didn't occur to me until after I'd drawn this and I just loved drawing him completely out of it on the couch.
This page I went over in 2b/3b pencil as the finisher as an experiment, instead of my usual pen. I think I'll stick to pen, although I like the texture it got on the road and it was better on smaller details.
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Was reading about the memento mori in art and had an idea for the cover of #22 - The Solution.
Blank version, pending disastrous attempt at colouring (anyone else feels like taking a crack, go nuts!) Bonus points to anyone who picks up the obscure statue I stole the pose and general layout from.
Edit: And now, in colour
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Animorphs Comics
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