Photoshop

This sunday I spent some hours with Photoshop and my Tablet, which I am trying to figure out - long process. I had a lot of fun experimenting with colors. I used some of my sketches from croquis and tried to "spice" them up a bit.

Croquis

Thumbnails

This week we made thumbnails for our 20-page stories using the manuscripts we wrote last week. Thumbnails are a sort of a storyboard where you go through your story by making very simple sketches showing the most important elements in each panel. We were taught by the Danish cartoonist, illustrator and author, Palle Schmidt. 

Script writing

The last two weeks we have been working with the stories we started on during the scriptwriting workshop with the screenwriter Barbara Slade, some time ago. We are all working on our own individual stories, which each is going to be a 20-page comic book and has to be finished in the beginning of 2014.

My story is a tragedy and is about two brothers who are working in an orange plantation in Argentina in the 1930’s. It is going to involve a lot of drama and… violence!

During these two weeks we have had focus on the writing process and in the first week we had the Danish scriptwriter Merlin P. Mann teaching us in outlining. By the end of the week we handed in an outline, a synopsis of our story and we could also hand in some character-sketches, which I did.

The second week we started writing our scripts with the Danish author and co-writer of the Danish “Valhalla”-series, Henning Kure. We had to write the scenes step by step and one panel at a time.

This week I explored how helpful a script is and how much you get to know your characters and the focus point of the story when you are in the process of writing a script.     

By the end of the week we got the opportunity to hear about Henning’s work with the “Valhalla”-album “Ormen I Dybet” from 1991, which was really interesting.

     

Drawing Class

Last week we had a drawing class with Artem Alexei who teaches at the Drawing Academy. We practiced figure drawing using ink, pencils, and markers. The whole week we drew a model who was posing in different time intervals. 

Thursday we got a quite special assignment. The focus was characters so we were told to dress up in some clothes or accessories that created a character. Each person had to be in the same posture for 7 minutes and we could choose any tool we preferred to use. I used a brush, a nip pen, and ink.

First I made the silhouette and then I drew the lines with the nip pen. 

Friday we went to a local mall to draw. The assignment was simply just walking around with our sketchbooks and draw people with focus on characters.