Did you meet your creative goals this week?
Don’t forget our call Monday at noon—we can hold each other accountable and you can get some peer support to stay on track with your creative goals!
As for me, I stayed off social media again—I’ve lost count of how many weeks—and finished another 50 pages or so of my graphic novel adaptation. Not as much progress as I’d hoped to make, but adequate.
One thing that slows me down is rough storyboarding every page, which I find essential. And when I say rough, I mean rough! Still, it takes time. I’ll share a few of those.
I’ll also share this more finished panel:
The graphic novel project is tremendous fun. I’m finding it interesting how the medium makes some things easier and some things harder.
Easier: What took several paragraphs in the novel to describe can be shown in one panel.
Harder: Unless I use narration or thought bubbles, which I don’t want to do (I see it as a copout), it’s challenging to show characters’ inner stories with only dialog and images. In that way, it’s like a movie.
Here are my pages and some storyboard “art” from this week:
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