Amanda Kastner⬥StorySeamstress

Hello friends! This is part 2 of the 3-part series about creating my webcomic/graphic novel, Imaginarium . I hope you'll enjoy this little glimpse behind the scenes! Part 2: Drawing When you think about drawing a graphic novel, this is the part you probably think of first. But really, it turned out to be the easy step! Time-consuming, sure, but much less mental work that the planning/writing stage. In March and April of last year I gave myself a goal of drawing something every single day, even if it was only a few lines. At the end of two months, I had all of the pages drawn, inked, and scanned. This what 120 inked pages look like! Working from the thumbnails I had already figured out for each page, I first sketched the pages in pencil then went over the lines with ink. Page Process: Thumbnail, Inks, Scan, Color! If you want to see scans of all the original pages (seriously, all of them!) they're available at the "Honored Guest" tier on my Patreon! Page Rules To keep

Hello friends! This week I'm starting a short, 3-part series about creating my webcomic/graphic novel, Imaginarium . I hope you'll enjoy this little glimpse behind the scenes! Part 1: Planning When I'm working on a story-based project I've found I need to have decided on these two things before I can really get started: 1) Characters & Setting 2) A theme! 1) Characters & Setting For me, this is the part that usually comes first. It basically answers questions like, who, when, where? I had the idea of an eccentric baron who, in pursuit of the perfect estate, hires all of the necessary characters--a phantom, a hermit, a band of outlaws... Later I coupled this idea with the image of a girl washed up on a beach beneath a castle. Who was she? Why was she there? I had no clue, but I wanted to find out! So, I had a general setting and a cast of could-be-interesting characters, but without a theme to give meaning to the story, they'd just wander around pointlessly