Today in class we had a small fire in the art building that ate up a bunch of class time, but after that we had some free work time. I started by practicing in more detail a drawing from my sketches that I knew needed so work. After practicing it I feel a little more confident about doing it for the final comic.
After talking to Pannifino I had to go back and rework a couple of panels. The first one was where Arnold gets his idea to burn the ropes. We both agreed that in it’s current form it was a little cliche. So I decided to expand on the lightbulb idea in a new way. First I tried turning Arnold’s head into a lightbulb when he gets the idea, but that felt dumb. Then I messed around with lightbulbs in his eyes and different lightbulb background patterns. Also I tried a beam of energy to represent the idea, but this just didn’t feel right. Eventually I moved away from the light bulb entirely and did a pattern of Arnold’s heads. I really like the pattern idea because it emphasizes time passing and breaks away from how I’ve shown Arnold before.
The next scene I need to rethink was Arnold calling out John Turner. Before I showed Arnold’s face, but I’m already showing his face a lot so I needed something new, and not showing John Turner’s face right when his identity is revealed kills the drama. So drew what that panel will look like and practiced what sort of face John will be making.
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