Single Page Comic, the first John Space adventure.

[Geoffrey Mégardon]

Here the update of the day.
I finished the inking (I think!). And I made a very rough color pass (a "color thumbnail"?) just to try some colors and see if it works or not and get your feedback.

I tried to used a limited palette for the different environments, but I am not sure if everything fits/works together yet. Not sure about the blue background for the long horizontal panel (where John Space is shooting).

In case you wonder how it looks in black and white, here it is:

To be honest I prefer the black and white version I am not sure what I am doing wrong with the colors, but I am not 100% satisfied.

Edit: @MimiHecher I still need to find another word for the pill, I will edit the text when I am back in Affinity Designer.

[Geoffrey Mégardon]

@crispalomino thank you! I hope I will get quicker at producing them! My plan is to do a webcomic.

[Geoffrey Mégardon]

@Mewie Thank you! it is nice to hear

[Geoffrey Mégardon]

It's taking me sooooo long to add color! I don't know if that's normal or if I am way out of my comfort zone (first comic!).

Basically I decided to move to Clip Studio for the coloring because it has more tools for selection and filling (compared to Procreate). But I am not sure if I am saving much time as some selection/fill tools do not like that my "inking" is made with a semi-transparent pencil. So I might need to use a more traditional inking brush for the next iterations.

Anyway, as it is taking me ages to color, I felt I needed to post my progress, to kind of feel like I am progressing.

[ksfabian]

@Geoffrey-Mégardon Color always takes me FOREVER too. You've really grown and nailed this one pager! it's fantastic. You could consider doing black and white until he gets to the tree and just have the tree and after in color.

[jenn]

@Geoffrey-Mégardon The palette you chose is very harmonious and energetic

[Erichousel]

@Geoffrey-Mégardon it looks great! Good luck with it.

[Geoffrey Mégardon]

@ksfabian Thanks! yeah, I think one thing that made the coloring so time consuming is that I used a semi transparent pencil brush for the inking. It looks great but it does not work well with the fill tools. I think it is too late for me to go black and white but yeah I do want to give it a try in the future.

@jenn thank you! I've used Strange World from Walt Disney as an inspiration.

@Erichousel thank you! I will be posting the final results this afternoon!

[Geoffrey Mégardon]

As promised, the final cut!

The first adventure of John Space, that's so exciting!

Thank you all for your support while I was making it; it was a lot of things to learn and improvise upon, and to read your encouragements really helped!

I think I will take a little break and focus on world building and visual dev in the next weeks. Turns out that I had to improvise on a lot of things even for this single page comic. I would like to get a better ideas of who is John, how is his spaceship, how other characters and worlds look like etc.

Feel free to give feedback even if this is finished work, I can use the feedback for the next story!

[MerryMary]

@Geoffrey-Mégardon this is such a clever comic and very enjoyable from a readers standpoint. I would definitely want to read more about the adventures of John space from the looks of this first one.