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BG Putting on a Happy Face #01 - Totally Stuffed
🕑 Added 2020-05-27 18:18:34 +0000 UTCNOTICE: All the pictures in this link are of consenting adults performing in role play scenarios. Scenes such as the ones portrayed herein should always be safe, sane and consensual. And fun for everyone involved! :)
Hi everyone!
I hope you are doing well, and you're getting through this tumultous time safely!
Earlier this month we had a poll for me to finish up a sketch from one of the sketch packs.
I was feeling very uncreative, due to the situation in the world and other personal reasons, buuut as it turned out... the Batgirl gag sequence I sketched out in March won the poll.
It was an controversial win, since it was a sequence spread out over multiple pages, rather than a single picture!
BUT, as it turns out, it really got my creative juices flowing! Because... how do you make a sequence like that more interesting?? It was fun to sketch, but I'm not usually a huge fan of just static "gag-alt" kind of thingies.
So, after thinking about it, I decided to do a comic out of it!
tfjohnson had a great idea for why the gag sequence was quite static... and everything clicked for me!
So yeah, here's page #1! The actual gag sequence starts on the next page! ;)
As usual when I do comics, I come up with a premise first and start drawing, having dialogue and stuff in my head. And then actually putting that dialogue into the page is the trickiest part!
Having a finished written script would definitely help me get the word balloons in the right place so they don't cover up stuff... But at least you're getting a No-Text version ;)
I tried to do this comic in a kind of animation-y style. Doing backgrounds that are quite painted, and then doing the characters quite flat (in animation this'd be done so the characters would be easier to animate) on top.
I tried to play around with quite dramatic shadows and stuff... and stole much of the color palette and stuff straight from Batman:The Animated Series.
Fun fact: as I was making this, I figured having 4 equally large frames would make it quite simple. It wasn't until I copied in a background onto page 2 (that has the same panel set-up) that I realized the 4 panels were completely different sizes! Looking at it now, it's pretty obvious :D
