As I have very little experience with creating sequential art, I am trying to use zines as an opportunity to practice. Although this is unrelated to my main project, it was useful to practicing finding the right parts of the narrative to illustrate.
I began first by writing out the script. This was an authorial practice and I allowed myself to jot down my thoughts without editing.
Then I started to thumbnail what the pages could look like. I decided that not all of the pages needed an illustration, so it was at this point that I started to cut down or combine some of the text.
Knowing that I wanted this to be a short foldy zine, I had to trim my plan down to just 8 pages. So I created a mock up and edited it as a went.
I purposefully kept the sketches really loose at this stage. I plan on refining these further and using a very limited colour palette for the whole thing - perhaps just two colours. I don't want this to detract from some of the other development work I still need to do, but it was a good exercise to get my head around sequential imagery.
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