 Cougar has a little bell that he finds and then he loses, like every month he loses it and then he finds it a month later Plays with it for like 10 minutes And he loses it again He absolutely loves it. Yep. If Gigi wasn't in the way that would be gone I don't know what Gigi is at this turn of events. Like what the hell are you? I was also thinking that I'll do these vlogs for a while whilst I'm working on this project Just so that I have time dedicated to working on it I'm obviously gonna bring back a couple of challenge videos just to like mix it up But for this Wednesday video it's gonna be this chatty stuff again because you guys seem to like the last one And I really like doing it and again it gives me time to work on this this this thing that I'm I'm trying to do here I have finished writing the comic. It came out to 13 pages, which is quite funny And now I'm just gonna print it off and see what it looks like maybe read it through Just scribble out with using a pencil different things. Thanks printer So I accidentally wheeled across First page because it fell up the printer and went on to the floor. Oh well But this is gonna be my rough guide to what it is So what I've done is just put panel what happens in the panel and then if the characters say anything Then I put their speech there So it's now Friday night like a complete cool person that I am I'm working on my comic And I just did some thumbnails rough thumbnails on this my script and then I do like a little panel layout to see what I would like it to be Helps me figure out a composition for each panel. It helps me visualize what the end product would look like So, yeah, just Working out some type of style still really just working on that Take a long time because I want to get it really right I decided that the house actually renting is gonna be an old refurbished lighthouse Because I thought that would be an internet resting dynamic to the story Drew a bike here for no reason just because I felt like during the bike I Think I'm getting close to the car style. I want I think this might be something to consider I'm having a difficult time figuring out her design Because I wanted I don't know I want it to be quite cold feeling but still quite realistic, so it's still quite creepy So I'm just doing lots of little studies to see what I can kind of come up with and I'm looking on Pinterest Waves and stuff like that. So it's really helpful. That's it. That's my Friday evening and I will update you The next time I've done more I'm gonna probably work for a few hours now because I'm enjoying it and we have no plans So anyway, I don't know why I'm rambling on about that time to do some more doodles and stuff About the light in here. It's absolutely terrible But I want to work in here just because I have like the I might put TV on TV Netflix So I've had my script ready to go and I think today what I'm gonna do is some expression sheets for the design of my character Because last night I was trying to draw her out. I don't know what I showed you so hopefully I'm not going over stuff again But yeah, try drawing out different faces and stuff Maybe what she would look like in some scenes that I see them ahead and I'm quite like this style I drew this pencil then I rubbed out the lines that I really like the white hair and her being like pure white Against the colors. I think it makes a really pop out. I'm not sure if I'm gonna keep it that way, but it's worth I'm gonna do some experiments today with that Yeah, so that's where I'm at today caught my coffee got my References for some expressions and I've got this show called safe and Chris is watching some game tournament But I don't care about so I'm sorry about the noise. It is now Sunday afternoon and made some progress. I honestly can't remember what I showed you so I'll cut it out if I have I was doing some studies all of this book Because I really liked the style and I really wanted to emulate that or see how the artist has drawn these guys Because I know I want to have a guy in the beginning And I just did this but then it came through a bit of a break through So this is kind of the style that I want it to look like I still haven't got her character design down properly But I really want to use because I use tracing paper in the past for drawing on top of and I really like the way That the ink goes down on it Some of it bizarre gives me something tactile to work with so this is tracing paper And I've drawn in the background the Copics and then pencil or texture and just a suggestion of the background And then I drew her on tracing paper and I've stuck her over the top of the colors behind and then I add a little bit of Rosiness to her cheeks and face because I think she's going to be quite a pinky Rosacea kind of person then I thought like oh, I'll just do a little experiment with tracing paper as The image of the lighthouse of these clouds of tracing paper this lighthouse is tracing paper in this here So I drew this sketch of an in situ illustration of my character So a kind of situation that she might be in so She's in her kitchen reading a book and she's got her boxes around her stuff And then I did a little study of how the comic might look But I really don't like these colors, but I like the way it turned out. So this is all tracing paper and Basically, I did some colors in the background. So this looks like it's further away in the distance And I think it gives a really nice way to create distance and details But I'm still still experimenting with that But I think this is kind of the style of what I'm gonna do sort of yeah So Sunday afternoon, we're gonna go for a walk now because I need to get out Get some sunlight. I mean yesterday we went to my parents house for ages We had a barbecue and stuff, which was really nice. Now it's time to go outside again Hey everybody, it's Tuesday morning, you cannot see anything. Let me move some stuff. I showed you guys this stuff yesterday and Well, not yesterday I took kind of took Monday off because it was a bank holiday here and Chris had the day off as well And I was just feeling you know when you have a little bit of a rut and you think I should just rest I felt like doing that because I had been working a weekend to be fair I didn't really feel like the surge of inspiration yesterday I just felt like just doing nothing for some reason anyway. One of you guys said a good way to loosen up was to Start backwards. So like if I did the line work first then and then the coloring Then I should do the coloring first and then the line work So what I did was I colored in some squares and then I did like portraits of guys faces because there's gonna be a guy in The beginning of the comic Who is basically showing our main character around the place that she's wanting to rent So it gives he gives a chance for our main character to have some dialogue with someone because she's mostly gonna be alone Throughout the comic it gives us a chance to understand her a little bit more if she can express herself Naturally through conversation because I don't think I mean you do talk to yourself a little bit But you would never like say stuff about yourself allowed like oh, I'm I'm not like you know what I mean You would just wouldn't unless you talk into a camera. I did consider making her a youtuber or something so that Gigi was using the literature, but I don't think anybody wants to hear that in the background So I paused it and what I was saying was I was gonna make her a youtuber or something like that But then I thought I was a little bit on the nose like they say right from your own experiences But that that would be too much like Is this person trying to emulate myself? I don't know, you know But the only reason I would have made her a youtuber is that she would be speaking to a camera We could get to know a little bit more about her But I think we know enough about her by the time that this guy is out of the picture to feel empathy for her and To kind of understand her emotions I think she's gonna be she's on the phone a couple of times too. I don't know in My head it's her sister, but it could be anybody I think that will be up to the readers imagination to decide who she's on the phone to but It's kind of open-ended because it never the person on the phone never speaks what I'm doing right now I did these heads like I said for that exercise because I needed to draw the guy do more just trying to figure out His character because I don't really draw Men very much. So it's quite difficult for me to sort of figure out how he looks I want him to be an older gentleman probably I don't know middle-aged and not an older gentleman that sounded really stupid, but like Maybe middle-aged even though this is quite hard to say it deter People from thinking that maybe he's romantically involved with her and see him more as like an uncle kind of thing Yeah, which is what I'm intending I'll trying out some spooky drawings because obviously I'm gonna be drawing some scary stuff or trying to and I'll try this out, and I was just thinking like does this look scary or does this just look silly like I need to practice Drawing more scary stuff and again with the tracing paper that I'm finding to be the style I think I don't know if I showed you that because I've decided that I'm gonna do this comic with an ink pen because I was like the way my lines look With ink pens I'm by ink pen. I mean brush pen. You're absolutely good brain if you want to focus It's focusing on the comic. There we go. Yeah, so it's it's a nice pen and I I've done comics in the past before I did this series a fantasy series that I never finished called kingdom come and I really like the way that those Characters looked and the set looked and everything so if I have images of that I will put them here or something. I don't know if I still have them because I got really tired of that Project really quickly and because of that I've had fear that I won't be able to finish This type of work because ever since my graphic novel that I've shown you before I've never really finished a project as a whole I mean I've had my slice of life comic that has gone on for a year and a half And that was every weekday for a year and a half So that's like a lot of comics but that hopefully because I've done the script and never did a script for the other comic kingdom Come I just went into it, which was really Silly of me because I think you just put me off because I I didn't really know where the story was headed a little bit And recently after I started that project. I had a full-time job So again and that was a real deterrent for me to finish that one So I have a little bit of fear with this comic that I'm just not gonna be able to complete it Like I said, I'm giving myself a month So giving yourself a deadline really helps because you can see you can aim for something I think it helps to have deadlines today I'm just gonna thumbnail out my pages What I'm doing here is taking the script pages and Fumnailing out where the panels would be just to see the way that the comic flows and if your eye tracks it Well, this is something that Scott McLeod speaks a lot about in his books You've probably seen them how to make comics and things like that and understanding comics He has those books. I'll link that below. They're really helpful. I remember reading I think it's understanding comment comics before I made my graphic novel And it really pushed me to analyze everything I was doing and help me make a bread of product Which I think was really useful and I might reread that sometime once I've finished doing this from nailing out each page I'm probably gonna either scan it in and print it out or just use the tracing paper and trace over them And then do like a color script and what a color script is is basically say the beginning is all happy in light So I'll have nice light colors and then something comes dark have dark And you see how the imagery goes together and the colors and the mood and feel of the piece works as a whole And it gives you direction on what to do next. So I think Pre-planning all these things all these little steps really help you to complete a project It's really handy to have around and I think if any of you are struggling on finishing or starting a comic project Then just do all these little steps and it really helps you or mind focus on what you want to do because I was fun Laying these out. I was like, oh, I like the idea of that and panel I want to draw that now and it got me Re-invigorated to keep going with the project. So it's good. It's all good I'm gonna continue during these and I'll probably be watching some YouTube's or listening to podcasts But you guys will see my work. I guess I really like these this Color schemes and I'm excited to see where the thumbnails end up and so I can do my color script So it's gonna work on that if you're wondering how I'm doing my thumbnails. Basically. I have my script here. So This is page one and then I have the panels and there's one there's five panels here So one two three four five So then I would read read the panels and kind of whatever in here is like oh open with car shop panel two is wood Area behind two figures of some other car looking out towards the audience. So looking out towards us I think like oh, I want the first panel the establishing shots So to speak to be a large panel so we can establish the scene But I would I wouldn't have like a small little thing and then a big You know, it makes sense to help the audience see where they are and in a large area Slowly bring them into the story by slowly zooming in on the characters through the panels So the next one is going to be the two figures So it's a mid-shot and then panel three is going to be the man walking by her interrupting her Which is going to be even closer So we kind of thinking of it in a cinematic sense a lot of these shots So the foreshot is going to be a close-up of Judy's face or the characters face I'm gonna rename the character again. I think if you think of it in the sense of a camera We're getting right in her face, which is very up close and personal. We From an audience perspective. We're getting to know her. We're seeing that she's uncomfortable We're also the sense of like the shot will make us feel a little uneasy So it's something that I like to think about when I watch films the way that the scenes the pacing is I like to look at and all the angles of the shots and stuff because you can always reflect that within the shots of your own comics So I was thinking of looking at like cinematic angles and something that I found out the other day was actually quite interesting I was watching this review of a game and they said they said they have the game like this, right? That's your view So if you're playing as the character you will always have the character in the middle And so you feel like that's you it's centralised and you can see everything going on around the character So other games that have the character like here kind of makes you feel Disengaged with the content because it makes you think I'm not that person Whereas this one is like you're controlling the world that you see around you as if you're seeing it from your perspective But that is over-the-shoulder shot or like if it changes up, you know It can be confusing for the viewer Well, that was something really interesting to bring back to in my comics when we want to engage with the character I'll have her sort of in the central shot and when we're kind of Disengaging or distancing ourselves from her then I'll have her like at the side or that would be a really good tip that I learned and Hopefully it translates to comics and we're gonna find out and you learn by experimenting, right? So there we go Okay time to finish up these thumbnails Okay, so I finished Fumnailing out the panel flow and then it kind of turned into doing some thumbnails as I was reading it I got inspired to do tiny tiny tiny thumbnails and I don't want to spoil anything. So don't look So now I'm gonna just I think instead of copying this and making a color script I'm gonna start on the thumbnails because now I have the the layout I had to add like a few pages. So this is added. This is added. This is added because it was very much like beginning The end like any did some more pasty stuff because obviously in horror we need to Build up the suspense a little bit. So I'm gonna start from nailing stuff You can watch a couple of those but obviously I don't want to spoil Too much of the story because I want you guys to read it and be like, oh shit That happened, you know so I was also thinking like maybe I'll do if I can finish this project Then I'll do maybe a Kickstarter or something for it But I don't know if there's gonna be any interest in that and I tried to do a Kickstarter before but Because of like some tax reasons. I couldn't say I live in Gibraltar tax me here. So that was annoying So I might just have to say I'm in the UK and bite the bullet and see if they say anything funny I can just be like no, I'm in Gibraltar, but hopefully it'll be fine. Yeah, if I'm gonna do that then I don't know if people be interested in that, you know Let me know in the comments if you'd be interested in getting like a comic for as a reward for helping back a Kickstarter of this I'm not sure. I'm really entirely not sure. I think if I finish this comic and Especially if I finish this comic within the deadline I've given myself then that in itself is its own reward sounds so cheesy, but I think it'll really help boost my confidence in my own art and Also, I think like throughout this whole process. It's really um a good way to learn And I just I really want to learn more. I want to become a better artist better storyteller everything And I think constant improvement is my aim. Good morning, everybody. It's Wednesday morning Oh my gosh, my throat sounds really bad. My voice sounds bad. So This is the morning of this video's upload. I'm really sorry about my voice. It's like scrapped So yesterday we did these thumbnails. I mean quick super tiny thumbnails of just How the comic would look together? So yesterday I was going through Doing bigger larger thumbnails of each panel and then If I didn't like the Sort of rough of it. I went and did a little bit more detailed Just help me out like This part of the process is basically problem-solving and seeing how everything flows together Looking at the the way the characters move their body language Everything just if it works in a thumbnail, then it works, you know in a larger scale for sure So I'm just gonna continue doing these I kind of got a bit stuck yesterday They take ages as well like it doesn't look like it should take very long But because you are working everything out. It does take a long time with even though I did the The panel sizes and stuff. I was still looking at it like what do I want? You know within that panel and I would take it and draw it larger and figure out how the characters might look and stuff and Here is more of them and I realized there's not like much spooky goings on and it's already Halfway through the book halfway through a little less than halfway through So when I add some like spookiness somehow And I'm just figuring it out. I think I need to do a layout of the Sorry about the cars. I think I need to do a layout of what the house would look like So I did like the bedroom here, which was obviously circular because it's a lighthouse spoiler alert guys Sorry, I think you're gonna get a few spoilers from You know coming along with me on this process I turned from working like that to working like this Because I realized that I need to see these pages at a glance so I could just flick it easier So I'm gonna get along with one to eight final pages. So yeah, that is halfway eight page eight So the 16 pages now whoa So I'm not gonna do page for teen or the last page anyway Well, there's two pages to go after this one, but I don't want to do it because I don't want spoilers guys So I'm just gonna show you the process of like the beginning kind of ones I mean, you could probably pause and just look at what this is But it doesn't really matter if you can spoil it if you want to spoil it. That's fine. Yeah Nearly finished and then what I'm gonna do is scan these pages and print them out and do a color chart Probably line them up side by side and print it out and yeah, that will be good So I just need to finish the final two pages and then I'll do that and then I'll edit this vlog. I know stuff Finished I'll give you a little preview because I like this put this face It was really funny because I was just looking up the horror films and looking at the different Like scary faces women have I realized that women are victims a lot in horror films and it kind of sucks and Kind of sucks that I played into that trope, but yeah, I mean I like to write about women and draw women So that's you know, it's not too bad. I think right. Sorry that this wasn't very interesting Hopefully it was interesting seeing the process the very beginning processes of thumbnails and figuring stuff out Basically what I'm gonna do now is probably start filming for the next vlog, which will probably happen next week Hopefully I'll be a little bit further along So from this I'll like I said, I do the color script and then what I'll do is Do the roughs of these so bigger pages of these so I hope to show you that and It's all coming together, which is pretty cool. I'm hoping that there's enough story and it's not just like Done, you know what I mean because it takes a long to draw it out You can't really get a sense of the the pacing once I've done these I'll just read through it and see like how long it kind of takes me to read and hopefully there's I don't need to add Any pages I might need to add a couple pages just for the pacing which would make sense Which is fine because honestly When I wrote the script it was quite You know, you write the first draft and then I was like yep first draft done, you know So if I go through this again, I'll probably see a lot of mistakes and I probably want to add a few pages like I said before I'm a bit intimidated by this project and If I add more pages then it's gonna get bigger and bigger and I think I want to Stop myself from doing that because I have this Problem when I start a project. I want to make it this great big thing and I never really done like a short Project so this will be a good like way to edit down my work and do feasible projects rather than I'm gonna make a giant graphic novel You know what I mean? I want to do that Well, anyway, thanks for watching guys Please like and subscribe for more content and I will see you and next time And again, like I hope that you guys like these blog style videos because I think I'm gonna do that I'll probably do like a challenge video for Friday or something, but for now. Yeah, this is it So thanks for watching. Hopefully some more interesting stuff going on next time Bye