by Henrike Dijkstra | Jul 17 2017 | Blog, Making comics
Recollection City, my fantastical adventure comic about friendship and stepping up and taking the risk of being seen and making decisions, is finally online! You can read the first five pages here and after this week I will upload it every Monday with a new page! Five...
by Henrike Dijkstra | Sep 23 2015 | Blog, Making comics, Overcoming obstacles
This week I finally started sketching the pages of the prologue of Recollection City. The reason for this specific blogpost is that I could have started sketching these pages earlier. but I fell into the trap of wanted everything to be “ready” before...
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...