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 | Mar 3 2015 | Blog
Here are the creative prompts posted on social media in January. For the other months you can go to the Creative Prompts Masterlist. January 5th: Create a character based on your favourite song. January 6th: Design a city hall, restaurant or business...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Dec 16 2013 | Blog, Making comics
The last of the four main characters of Reminiscence is Robbie. When I thought of the story, his character and looks were the clearest to me and the ideas I had for his appearance influenced my decision about the style and which time periods I was going to get my...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Dec 9 2013 | Blog, Making comics
Back again, with the design process of the third main character of the Reminiscence comic, Ivory. This post will talk about how I try to incorporate not only the personality traits of the characters, but also the important elements of their own story-arc in their...