This semester I started learning how to use storyboard pro and it has been an adventure! Now I am adding sound so I can understand better the pace of my drawings. I am also using audacity to make the simple edits on the audio file. I got some great feedback this week and I am looking forward to adding them to the work. Here is a glimpse in how the workspace of the two programs looks like:
How I feel after making this happen:
For this semester the goal is to have 2 finished pages from the beginning of the story. Here are some of the experimentations that happened until the final first page with text! It is been really fun to make this comic and I’ve learned so much about how to study characters from different angles and how to get used to drawing them a lot.
I am using Kritta, which is a program very similar to photoshop, but it is free and have some interesting features. The first pages I used a template for this program from David Revoy and it was really helpful to start thinking about panels. When I felt more comfortable with it I created my own document with the presets that I will use to print and created the more refined versions.
I can’t believe that I am here for more than a month now!
I’ve been learning so much, and I would like to share something with you guys. A friend of mine told me about this tool realtimeboard.com and I am just in love with it. I think that it is especially helpful for visual artists, you can upload pictures, files and organize your thoughts however you want.
It is pretty simple and intuitive, so it doesn’t take a bunch of time to learn how to use and you can start organizing right away!
I hope you all have a great week!
Marcela Pinheiro 