 Hello and welcome back to this very casual average video. Today I thought we would just take it easy and do some explaining of my process for my comics and where we're going next with the next comic. So I don't know what the title will be but it will be something like working on my next comic, how do I get ideas and I had a couple of comments before how do you take the story somewhere. And I think that's pretty much a super age old question because I guess there's no right answer to that and I also don't really know how I do that. I think it's just a case of finding what interests you in the story and continuing to follow that. But sometimes it's really hard to continue on with a story if you find it boring and if you find it boring then I think your audience will find it boring. So a good way to combat that is to think about going straight to the action of the story and what it is that interests you about it. So it could be that for my haunted water park I really like this idea of doing it in this 50s style. So we have like this 50s I don't know 60s style. I still kind of am deciding what date to set it in and I really like the idea of doing like playing off that graphic 60s style 70s style. You know I'm gonna say 60s 70s that kind of time period. It's a big time period but you know what I mean when I say that sort of graphic style and I think I'm finding interest in what I could do with that idea. Like how could I play with that idea? Like how could I push it and have fun with it? So today I am looking at kind of like iconography theme park maps from that period time period and kind of the graphic design element. The really like bold graphic shapes that you have in these designs and how can I apply that to this work that I'm doing because I'm finding that interesting and fun so I should lean into it and see if I can experiment and follow it more. So at the moment I'm just doing like a rough thumbnail of the map. I did a thumbnail in the previous page and I took a photo of it. So here are the pages of thumbnails that I did for string. So this haunted water park comic is called string and I wrote the whole script and I've done all the thumbnails and then I did picture this which took up most of my time and I thought I was going to do two of them alongside each other but in the end I decided to just do one so I could get one out and then maybe do this one later but then I took a really long break and I thought I didn't want to do a comic again for a while because picture this really kind of tied me out. But then I can't get this this comic out of my head. So here's the thumbnail of the first page but yeah it's it's kind of a timeline of someone goes missing in the water park and it's kind of a timeline of her going missing. This thumbnail that I'm working on I want it to be this kind of style of map you know like a theme park kind of map. So this kind of style I don't know if you can see that and it'd be really fun to have that for the park and to make kind of the different branding for the park and things like that. I feel like that would be so fun to do. That's kind of what I'm thinking about now. I'm like okay you really want to do a comic obviously you can't get it out of your head so let's just do a comic and let's just take it easy maybe not try to finish it as quickly as picture this because I think picture this I just wanted something for like Fort Bubble and I don't know different comic cons I was going to. I also wanted to just do another comic because I felt like it had been such a long time but now I've got a little bit of breathing room you know because I've done one so maybe I could take it a bit easier on myself this time but let's see I don't know let's see how quickly this process happens this is the next comic that I'm going to do so it's called to string and it's a haunted water park and I was thinking I want to name it aqua dreamland and I don't know if that's too generic but I kind of like that it's generic if that makes sense because it's just like it could be anywhere this this name of this park it could be your park it could be the park that you've been to before yeah it just sounds fun and also dream dream dreamland it's funny because it's haunted it's kind of not dreamy right to be super ironic about it it's the opposite of a dream so that's what I was thinking and I also thought of the logistics of the park already when I wrote it I know that I wrote that it has four different slides because basically what it is is that it's a small town and I don't know why how they've got this funding maybe that's something I should consider maybe they got this funding from somewhere bad to create a little bit of tourism in the town and they made a water park so that's the idea there's this water park in this small little town sleepy village not a village small little town in America so it's very stylized so that kind of setting and time period I think it could be really fun but like I said lots of stuff to consider I have done the first pass of the thumbnails probably will change and I've also done a whole script so it's like let's get going with this kind of thing so this is the rough layout of the park I've got the one slide there I put an entrance here which doesn't make sense but kind of on a map you would always have the entrance at the bottom right so let's see it has to be a portrait because of the way comics are I can't do a landscape one so maybe if I do the entrance here and then this slide is like one of those four in one slides I also need to research like what slides existed in this time timescale because probably a lot of these slides didn't exist in the 1950s 60s 70s whenever the flip it is I'm going to be setting this but I think we can suspend disbelief a little bit as well considering what will take place in this comic it's not going to be super realistic as to what happens in real life considering it's haunted so I don't know I'm just figuring out the plots the plotting of this usually water parks have like a big central pool so I'm trying to think about that so the entrance is here and maybe we'll do little cars parked outside some flags always nice and a little baby pool maybe here kitty pool next to the big pool and I do like these kind of stylized trees where they're like really flat iconography like shaped just really you know what it is you can see it I think that would be really nice to have just for the first page because as well the characters that I have well these are rough characters obviously they're very stylized and they're very I would say they're a little bit different to how I've drawn characters before and I really have this idea in my head that's very angular but let's see let's see how it turns out yeah so just I think if I really this time focus on the thumbnails and really figure them out and really just research everything then it makes the part of actually drawing the final like outcome very easy and fun so I think that's another thing that you have to consider is do all the hard work up front do all the planning up front and then when it comes to the final design and work of the thing it it's smooth and it's fun and it's enjoyable and I feel like people can see that in your work if you're having fun with it because if you're not having fun with it then what's the point okay so there's supposed to be four slides so there's one here one here it's like a mega and of course we can exaggerate the slides because it's that kind of fake illustrated graphic style so we can make it like extreme or look more extreme than it actually is well I would say these slides are pretty extreme in the grand scheme of things okay so we've got the four slides we've got like a little baby maybe she'd do like just a baby slide here or something I don't know where that would go here it makes sense to have just a little one okay and then realize I've done this in a certain way so that this page is going to be cut up into nine panels so in each panel there's going to be a time because we're going to follow this girl around the map from when she arrived to when she goes missing and I know at 10 I think I've put she arrives so I've put she arrives here because this is the second panel so we need to have the entrance here on the map and I know I'm like really confusing things to myself but I think it wouldn't matter that much if we have the entrance up here it's not too bad I think that kind of works as well and also you wouldn't have your main big rides right at the front of the park would you so maybe we should pull this one down here and also that makes sense because I need that to be the time when she goes missing and she goes missing on this slide so I need to pull that one down um also let's see what's in my research on these maps is like big green areas but I think because in parks you don't really have big green areas I guess or maybe have it like around the outside grassy areas let's do some like umbrella stands here maybe so it indicates like you can go and sit here okay so the big side is here so here can be toilets and stuff I guess like but yeah to answer the question how do we make the story go somewhere I think if you have an ending in mind as well that's really useful if you're just writing straight ahead that can be really difficult so sometimes planning the story out can work for you um some people can write straight ahead and just be like that's the story I want these characters are going to tell me where they're going to go but on other cases structuring the story there's loads of tutorials out there how to structure a story and things and sometimes breaking down the stories into different chapters and different parts can be really really useful I think it's just kind of figuring out your workflow and if you just go straight ahead for stuff it makes sense to just um try and try and try basically just keep trying and erroring the way that you do stuff and then eventually you'll end up with something anyway this is my short little video for date today so I hope that you like this tool kind of vibe um let me know if you did and uh see you next time bye