Before Our Love Fell - Page 1

Page 1 of Before Our Love Fell


 Process:

 The sketch I drew teeny tiny (well, I hadn't noticed that photoshop had a fairly big file, I was zoomed out so didn't notice til after I saved and was all, "Woah, that size is funky" and checked the image size) just to get the idea down.


 







I then took it into a more final sketch, to get the idea more solidified, and lock the shapes and ideas into place. The blue overlay is a "Sacred Geometry Template", which the lines correspond with planes of interest where our eyes are happiest focusing on and finding the subjects along those lines. Even before they (the comic industry people) started actively working with this template, if you overlayed different templates on older comics you'll find a LOT of the lines of action correspond with the characters and action within the imagery. It's pretty nifty.
















Step 3 was to create a final draft. I had the layout and where everything was going to go, I had to work on finalizing my work and get it ready for inking (or just final lineart, since it was digital). I created finished boxes, and started working on the layout of where art would not be present (the white).













 Last step before I colored, the lineart.
The reddish lines around the image are my crop marks, where the page will be cropped to once it's printed.

As I colored, I stuck mostly to shades of grey, only bringing out specific colors (eyes mainly), with an overlay to create a papery texture and a somber blue hue over the entire image.


The next 7 pages will be posted every three days, just to keep you on your toes. I probably won't write too much about the process on those pages, since the process for them was just like this one, but I will post the visuals for those steps just like I did here.