This page has eight panels. This may be too many.
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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 12
I promised you a page on Friday, and you will get a page on Friday!
You may find it below:
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Photoshop only crashed twice on this page! Progress!
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Total number of times Photoshop crashed while I worked on this page: 5
Times Photoshop crashed, taking Windows out with it, while I worked on this page: 3
I learned an important lesson about saving one’s work frequently.
On to the page!
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As usual, I’m the proverbial day late and dollar short, but here it is! This concludes the first chapter. We’ll do bonus art next Tuesday, and the next page (starting the next chapter) should be out next Friday.
Now I’m off to make pie.
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It’s 4:30 on Friday, but I did it! Two pages before the end of the week!
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So it begins!
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I still have to get my drawing tablet set up, so enjoy this pencil drawing. His name is Tomoya Daichi and he is pretty important and importantly pretty.
Also, we have a new title: Last Watch Before Dawn. It better reflects the secret demon-hunting organization at the story’s heart, and avoids some heavy, real-world cultural connotations that will distract (or at least will distract me) from the fictional setting.
I’ll be working on getting the tablet set up this week, which means that actual comic pages are not far off. Stay tuned!
Comic progress!
I’ve finished sketching the layout of every page. The art and science of comics is to guide the reader’s eye in the correct direction, ensuring they pause where the pacing needs to slow and move quickly when it needs to speed up. We’ll see how well I managed when I start drawing.
I guess I have to start drawing now. It’s intimidating, but I did this all to myself.
I’ll be working on a new and improved title, as well. I’ll be back with more updates when I have them.
Chrysanthemum Dawn: comic script preview
Here’s what I’ve been working on in between episodes of The Well Below the Valley. (The text is recreated below, for screen readers and/or people who don’t want to squint.)
Right now, I’m still learning how this process is going to work. For a traditionally published comic, the writer would hand a script like this to the lead artist(s), but since I am a team of one, I just need to have enough information that future me can remember what I was thinking. I also haven’t started storyboarding yet, so I’m guessing on layout and panel styles. Pacing in sequential art is a complex process of guiding the reader’s eye around the page, and it’s something I’m going to have to learn by doing.
Thanks for coming along on this journey with me! I hope this little snapshot intrigues you.
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