The comic is going great so far, I think for what I'm trying to achieve I'll need to make 10 pages- maybe more. Though even that is just a cut off point, I have enough ideas to keep going up to even the apple incident.
For now I just want to focus on Nim as a character and give her a more interesting motivation for becoming a mother or at least more in line with the themes I'm going for. The main crux of her character is her detachment/apathy and I am trying to write her in ways to demonstrate that characteristic while allowing her to attempt to develop.
Here's what the current plan/a plot overview of what I currently have in the works (call it spoilers if you'd like.);
Essentially, Nim will get stabbed because she assumes she already finished off the human but they (gender isn't relevant) manage to suddenly stab her good with a dagger before finally succumbing. Due to her surprise, she tries to figure out how it was possible for this human to do that and eventually notices a locket.
This locket contains something that reminds the human of a loved one and this forces Nim to think about the fact that she has nobody. She didn't see the point in having connections but this despite how minor this is on the grand scheme of everything she has ever experienced, she can't help but wonder what it'd be like for her to have something like that.
Yay! I have 4 pages storyboarded for the comic, the hard part seems to be over now so I'll be able to alot more pages storyboarded sooner then later now!
Iâve occasionally thought about how the twins would be familiar with how real night skies look like unlike the majority of everyone else, also I just wanted to draw a nice sky.ïżŒ
Turns out I really like trying to do environments and landscapes, I drew it too tiny so I tried upscaling. I drew the apples way too big but whatever, this was mainly a test of my current abilities. Perhaps next time Iâll try a more woodland interpretation with more trees instead of a large clearing. Dream is there for scale.
I decided to just delete everything else that I've posted as that's what I've been tempted to do for a while. It's a bad bullet to bite but I needed to bite it.
I havenât posted in a while and that has certainly been because of underlying insecurities surrounding my art and communication skills (I donât just mean socially but artistically as well.) Itâs honestly frustrating that being aware of perfectionism doesnât make it much easier to avoid the tendency to nitpick and worry about flaws, I really wish that was the case. I could try to acknowledge that other people post art that if it was something I made I wouldnât have posted it and try to get myself to get over it because I know they are things that I enjoy that arenât perfect but itâs not that easy.
Lately I have been working on fundamentals in hopes that practice will help me feel better about my art and make me âgood enoughâ by my standards, I suppose itâs helping to an extent; in fact I can tell that I am learning something and Iâm demonstrating a good sense of color even with these basic exercises but itâs also giving me an excuse to avoid working on and making what I truly want to I.e skeletons. (You know what fandom Iâm in)
