25th Jan 2021, 9:00 AM
On this page we learn a little bit more about my new characters, Night Knight and Sleep Tyke, and their relationship with Steamroller Man. I definitely prefer drawing action pages to drawing conversations, but with this one I feel like I found a middle ground, and composed the page in such a way that while it's essentially characters talking, it doesn't feel static, and hopefully not boring!
My biggest struggle on this page was the background in the first panel. My initial impulse was not to put a background in at all, but since it was the biggest panel on the page, it really didn't feel right just having empty space behind the characters. I drew three versions of this background before I came up with what you see here! Ultimately I had to move forward and get to work on the rest of the page.
Doing a composition with silhouettes (in panel three) was something I haven't done much of, but I felt like it would work well here. The challenge, and fun, of working with silhouettes is using the posture, body language and gesture to convey all of the emotion. The bonus is that silhouettes are really fast to draw! I made up for the time I spent on the panel one background!
As Charlie Sheen once said, "WINNING!"
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