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Sketching tonight -- couple thoughts on scripting
3 years ago
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Tonight I sketch page #49 of AFCAH, at https://picarto.tv/Rimme at 6:30 PM Eastern. Coming in closer to finishing #50 by the end of the year!
I've had to rewrite the script for this next page a few times to tone down the verbosity, redundancy, and number of panels to draw. My one concern is the number of background characters to draw (and when I say that I dislike drawing outdoor scenes, it's really the aesthetically nice but story-irrelevant crowds of people or vehicles I dislike drawing). It's fun to give out cameos of recurring characters, and to continue their stories at the same time as the main story. But even though they're less detailed than the in-focus characters, they require their own posing and sketching and inking and coloring like everything else.
I only managed to sneak in three little cameos on page #48 (in part from lack of time, in part due to the staging the script demanded). I'm hoping to get a few more cameos in, but I'll have to plan it out carefully. Just as the main story gets pared down for efficiency, so do the cameos. And that's on top of making a pleasing layout.
I've had to rewrite the script for this next page a few times to tone down the verbosity, redundancy, and number of panels to draw. My one concern is the number of background characters to draw (and when I say that I dislike drawing outdoor scenes, it's really the aesthetically nice but story-irrelevant crowds of people or vehicles I dislike drawing). It's fun to give out cameos of recurring characters, and to continue their stories at the same time as the main story. But even though they're less detailed than the in-focus characters, they require their own posing and sketching and inking and coloring like everything else.
I only managed to sneak in three little cameos on page #48 (in part from lack of time, in part due to the staging the script demanded). I'm hoping to get a few more cameos in, but I'll have to plan it out carefully. Just as the main story gets pared down for efficiency, so do the cameos. And that's on top of making a pleasing layout.
