The Comic Work Begins

So for my main project for my final year, I am completing a selected few pages from a story to convert into a comic book format to add to my portfolio. The story I'm using for my comic examples is Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" the actual story from that book that I'm using is called "The Lady of the House of Love" and centers around a female vampire, the daughter of famous vampire Nosferatu.

 

The plan is to hand draw the comic, and possibly edit it later on in Photoshop. I'm also going to try to include colour pop, similar to that seen in Frank Miller's "Sin City".

       

         This is an example of one of the first pages, in the preliminary stage, so this is brainstorming around issues of layout, content, and the post stick notes represent where I have tried to redraw the original image from a more interesting perspective, opposed to a straight-on image.

 

     

           To be more specific, the right hand pink square is designed to emphasize how the bird is caged and, as the story quotes “She likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape”. The left hand pink square is a better perspective for seeing the tarot cards she spends all day with, plus its a more interesting shot of the woman, and more complex than a simple bird’s eye view.

 

 

 

After I have finalized the layouts and perspectives, I plan to hand render some more detailed images and later decide whether or not to digitalize them.