Chocco's Project Logs
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Re-doing some things
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Aiming for a 2024 Revival!
Hello everyone! I haven't posted here in a while. As you can probably guess from my lack of activity here (and pretty much everywhere else) lately, I haven't been doing much on my projects. And this is even though I had all of my Summer holidays to work on them.
All that might sound worrying for most, but not for me. I know that my passion is still there, and it needs to be re-ignited with the right ingredients for its fuel. Recently, I have been trying to figure out what they are. This process may take just one guess, or, more likely, I'll have to test out multiple theories
So far, the theories I have come to a total of one. That theory is this: "If I update my project blog (and my projects Tumblr) on a more regular basis, then I will be more likely to do more work on my projects." Hopefully, this is the one. If not, that's too bad. But whatever happens, I'm looking forward to continuing my comics! ...And maybe more...?
(Also, uni's back and it's my final year, so it's going to be hell for me)
Monday, August 7, 2023
Subtle changing
When a character, place, or thing first appears outside of doodles and concept art, and into the canonical world that they're part in, it makes almost everything about them pretty much official. Even in my scenario, where I'm someone who's just making a casual webcomic project, I still feel that kind of pressure that everything seems all set in stone once something shows up in canon.
However, as I'm making my comic, I notice that there are things that could have been done differently when I look back at the previous pages. There are things that I believe that I could have done better, so I try to change them
I can forgive myself because I'm working on my first webcomic project, but I have actually made some subtle changes to some certain elements. If you read Chapter 1, you may notice these if you pay attention.
Take my my character Shashi, for example. He is Kamilla's cousin's son (AKA her second-nephew), who was introduced very early in the chapter.
Here is what he looked like in his debut:
See all those stripes on his clothes... |
And here is what he ended up looking like a few pages after:
Some of his outfit's colours changed for the sake of balance, too |
Notice how I've removed some details on his clothers because I thought they were just too much of a hassle to draw.
Next, let's look at the colours of Kamilla's day outfit. Here is her first appearance wearing it:
A few pages later, you'll see how there have been some slight shifts in brightness, hue, etc.
I just wasn't exactly as to how overly bright it was before, and wanted to create a better balance in her colour palette.
You'll notice that this doesn't just applies to characters, but the background, too. You'll see how, with the art style, I'm still trying to figure out what direction that I want to go. I want to be able to make the process quick, but also appear well with the subjects.
And just recently, the colours of the speech bubbles and thought clouds have changed from white to a light yellow-brown colour just in case I would need the colour white to appear brighter if the future ever calls for it. Also, some lettering has been written by hand to create a stronger effect, if needed.
Maybe this is a regular thing only for now. And maybe this will start to lessen once I become better and more decisive when it comes to making designs for my comics. It doesn't bother me at the moment, but I hope this will come to an end eventually.
Friday, August 4, 2023
First Commission!
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Kamilla vs the Petal-Rat!
The set-up for the traditional art part of things |
Trying to design the "city petal-rat" |
The scipt for the chase. Read if you like! |
Storyboarded |
An idea I had that took inspiration from this |
Turned to thumbnails |
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Doodling without sketching
A dynamic pose |
I may include "noodle arms" on occasion |
The Three Bare Bears webcomic by Daniel Chong |