The Final Chapter, Week 1: Breaking Past My Limits
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Welcome back everyone! I’ve been pushing forward with the third chapter’s storyboard as the final weeks count down. In the next two weeks, I’m aiming to push my limit for how many pages I can sketch. Here’s what’s happened this week so far:
Compared to the previous chapters, I’ve been emphasizing more visual and sound effects. Now that I’ve actually introduced the superpowers, there will be more action-packed conflicts with special effects like fire, lightning, smoke clouds, explosions, and others. Along with this, I’m paying more attention to shading and motion lines in this chapter, especially to depict my characters’ emotional depth. And since every hero has a villain, here’s my design for one of the main antagonists of the story, with some of these visual effects:
As for more character profiles, I created two more thus far: Tonitrus and Atlas (this Atlas is his own character, not the same one as Marcus’s alter-ego). Compared to the other figures I designed, I went above and beyond with creating their personalities and clothing (one of them is 156 million years old); however, their names are what I want to focus on here. I derived these characters from characters in Greek mythology, but I used words from Latin to create their names. Tonitrus is based on Zeus, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of lightning, and Atlas is based on the Titan punished by carrying the world on his shoulders. Here they are so everyone can see for themselves: Chapter 3 Characters 1.
The comic book cover art will get its own update next week, but I’ve begun developing ideas for what to include in it. I’ve been watching some of a documentary of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee’s comic book drawing, in which he explains how to catch the reader’s attention to the cover. Once I’ve designed a rough draft of where to place the elements of my story, such as the characters, background, main conflict, and most importantly the title, I will share it with everyone. Until then, see you guys next week!
The Stan Lee Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5tU2PuRdU8
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