I’m working with Manchester Museum at the moment, making a fold out comic with two stories relating to the museum’s collection.
Students from Cedar Mount Academy spent the day looking at the collection and thinking about how to create two stories for the comic.
We were working with a five point story plan:
1. Inciting incident
2. challenge
3. crisis
4. climax
5. resolution
Not easy top do over 3 A6 panels, but I think I succeeded in compressing the story we camera up with on the day.
Manchester museum is just wonderful. It’s kind of old-fashioned, but totally up to date and wonderfully cared for – all the exhibits are fresh and squeaky and shown in exciting and novel ways. Do visit if you are in manchester or have a look at their website http://www.museum.manchester.ac.uk
Thanks to the students of Cedar Mount Academy for helping us come up with the great story ideas. http://www.cedarmount.manchester.sch.uk
This video shows my working practice as I decide how to write and plan the story and illustrations.
This is part 2 of my How to make a comic series in which I show you all the processes I go through to make a fold out A3 comic for manchester Museum. You can see part 1 here: https://youtu.be/6l0DCrNz_A4
In this video I show how I refine the drawing and get the speech bubbles the right size to fit the text. You can see me paint the cover picture in this video: https://youtu.be/AL3TW4mQVHQ
I go through the process of scanning, tidying up in Photoshop and finally laying out in InDesign ready for print.