by Henrike Dijkstra | Aug 24 2015 | Artwork, Blog, Making comics
Hello all, and welcome back to part two of the series about designing my villain characters for the Recollection City comic. If you missed part 1, you can go and read it here. This week I`ll be focusing on how I designed Alaric, the guy with the brains behind the...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Aug 17 2015 | Artwork, Blog, Making comics
Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing great! I`m back with a new instalment of the Crafting a Story series. This time we are talking antagonists and I`ll focus on one of them: Valeska. I never really liked coming up with “villains” in the past. They...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Feb 9 2015 | Blog, Making comics
Lately I’ve been making thumbnails for various scenes for the Recollection City prologue. I have been doing tests for page layouts too to get a sense of the overall style of the comic pages. Now it’s time to look into the style of the text that goes into...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Feb 2 2015 | Artwork, Blog, Making comics
What’s typical for comics (and some other narrative art forms) is that you’ll be drawing the same characters, props and locations over and over again. For a lengthy scene in the same place it can be tricky to come up with nice, new compositions for each...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Jan 12 2015 | Artwork, Blog, Making comics
Some of you might remember I posted a painting I used in my portfolio for CTNx. It is a painting, not a comic panel. For my comic, however, I`m not going to paint it all. I`m going to use line art. I experimented a bit with how to colour this lineart and how to keep...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Dec 16 2014 | Artwork, Blog, Making comics, Overcoming obstacles
The main feedback I got at CTNx was that my character designs looked stiff and I didn’t tell enough of a story with them, even in the basic designs it`s better to let the characters do something or react to something so we know what kind of character it is. I...
