WEEK 4 (TUES)
Finished work on initial dummy. Steven gave me some food for thought on a few pages where things weren’t totally clear—for example, the third image is much different in the second pass than in the first one, and the scene demonstrates better the classroom setting. I think what I really need to do is get the Chinese text in the speech bubbles and in the book to make it clearer that in this classroom environment, the protagonist (me) is genuinely unable to understand or conform to the surroundings.
Also with this second pass I did a bunch of pages with my preferred ballpoint pen, which suits my line quality best. As a result the top two images look really nice. I like the pen for a line finish. For color I’m still unsure.
The second draft also has photographs that I processed using a posterize filter, but I may use more with color halftone.