The Last Day of Rain Update: 19th of April 2024
From sketch to designing backgrounds and characters in-between!
A version of this post was originally published on the 19th of April 2024, in a private newsletter to my Kickstarter backers. I’m now making all the updates available to the public, so you can see how I create my comic books.
Hi there, happy Friday! ☀️
(I probably should find a different way to say hello - the repetition is getting to me. 😆)
Quick update for you this week. After a dip in motivation, the backgrounds are finally progressing. I’ve been working on a train station scene and it’s been fun carving a coloured, detailed version out of loose sketches.
What you see here isn’t the final page yet, but it’s getting there! The current colouring is called “flatting”, before shading and final effects are applied. And don’t fear: the characters will also be coloured! 😎
Here’s the next page, where you see a pod car park in the background. I saw chargers with solar panel roofs in a motorway station and thought something like that would look interesting in Shiba Town.
I’ve been watching Avatar lately and wishing my backgrounds were more painterly. Might do away with lines altogether in the next volume, if it still fits the style, but we’ll see. 👀
This is it for this week. Slow but steady. Looking forward to showing you more next Friday!
Finally, if you are subscribed to my main newsletter and didn’t receive anything last week, it’s because I didn’t send it. I failed my promise! But I hope to eventually restart regular posting there, once both books are finished. 🥵
See you soon!
Claudia
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