Hi! It's Eva and Avalo! We wanted to write a post about our work together and how we make the pages. Hope It'll be useful for someone!
(We're sorry there must be a whole lot of english mistakes...)
Once we played together on tegaki E, and accidentally created a story about a man-eating dead boy and a prince who's trying to stay alive in palace intrigues. It came out to be good play, so we thought it might be a decent comic. But we've never worked together, and the comic was going to be huge, so we decided to test our ability to create something as co-authors. Thus we started the Sun Rising, our precious tryout, that was supposed to be be twenty pages, but ended up to be one hundred pages long (that's a bit of a difference!). that's a pre-story, now to the working process!
First, we devided our duties. It was easy! Eva is excellent writer, so she is more writer than artist. And Avalo is more artist than writer! This helps us in some arguings, where Eva can tell the last word concerning the plot, and Avalo can stress some art ideas. Interesting detail is, when we began to work together, we were afraid of any arguings, and tried to avoid them, and it was extremely unproductive behaviour. After approximately a month we realised that co-authors can argue as much as they want, if they're hearing each other, and ready to accept friend's point of view. We also realised that in most cases our devided personal opinions merge to become the best solution.
We started to work on the comic by writing a script. It was detailed, although it changed in its parts after we drew a storyboard. Eva was writing the script and creating the storyboard, Avalo was mere adviser during this process. Then we continued to work equally. Usually Avalo creates sketches. After that Avalo, with the help of Damian, our dear friend from US, translates the pages. We figured it's important to make final text on the stage of sketches because sometimes text affects impressions poses or camera angles. Then Eva or Avalo draws lineart above it, then, if it's a new scene with new lighting, it's up to Avalo to create colour palette. And when it's done we colour next pages equally.
We chosen Avalo's style as a style for this comic so sometimes Eva have to adjust her drawings, line and colour to it. It was hard at the beginning but now we have no difficulty with that. When we finish to draw pages, we inspect them. We check if they all made in the color palette we need, sometimes redraw stuff, or decide to switch some frames with each other.
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