Detailed Thumbs - Nine
Even though it looks like I failed in continuing with Project 52, I only see the month of March as a minor hiccup. Basically I got a bit busy with stuff, so lets leave it at that. However in this month I have been doing some art very sporadically. One of the things that I have been doing is actually taking those rough and ready doodles that I created as the template/backbone of the story and started with the more detailed thumbnails.
These detailed thumbnails are basically the graphic novel in a form that is readable. While all the details are not there, it becomes something that can be read by someone other than me, and they can actually follow it.
One of the greatest lessons I learnt during the Comica Competition from last year was that the story got better the more people that read it. Not because I took everything at face value and changed, but when there was a good idea, I would listen and tweak the story accordingly. The vision for the story remained in tact, but the delivery was modified ever so slightly and it really did enhance it several times over.
With that in mind, I really wanted to make sure that I had something that I could give to people at the end of my sabbatical, so that I could start drawing the final pages afterwards. At this stage, I don’t know if that’s a possibility (as I’ve not been able to complete much in the way of