I watched the above video about a month ago, and thought the idea of a 24 hour comic was an interesting pitch of quantity over quality. This sounded like an especially fun challenge coming off of my HOWL project.
While 24 hours sounded maybe too little, I thought giving myself a week to do a comic would be an interesting challenge, so thats just what I did!
In the end I spent most evenings after uni working on this: A week of evenings prepping and storyboarding, the same drawing the pages, and then a few days extra dedicate to the cover and formatting. So in the end it ended up being more like 2 full weeks of work, which is funnily enough, very similar to the first comic project we had back in year 1!
I kept it very simple when it came to the concept- I wanted something that wouldnt require a lot of conceptualising, so I set it in an old peoples home, which would make it easy for me to get my own reference photos- something that took up quite a bit of time on Howl.
While 24 hours sounded maybe too little, I thought giving myself a week to do a comic would be an interesting challenge, so thats just what I did!
In the end I spent most evenings after uni working on this: A week of evenings prepping and storyboarding, the same drawing the pages, and then a few days extra dedicate to the cover and formatting. So in the end it ended up being more like 2 full weeks of work, which is funnily enough, very similar to the first comic project we had back in year 1!
I kept it very simple when it came to the concept- I wanted something that wouldnt require a lot of conceptualising, so I set it in an old peoples home, which would make it easy for me to get my own reference photos- something that took up quite a bit of time on Howl.
Using reference photos from the local area, I then decided the more fun side of the comic would be from going a little "Rubber Hose" with things, so I made the characters Mickey mouse-esque and anthropomorphised them into foxes. I thought this would make things more interesting rather than just drawing people again and again, especially as the comic is intended as a comedy.
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Un-edited page example
Trying out clip studio to add tone & depth:
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Text formatting via Adobe Illustrator
The final comic: