Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Work Blog 2: It's Alive!

I've been working on my graphic novel Little Knight for 7 months. You could say it's been longer because I did the first sketch of Little Knight himself about 2 years ago, but about 7 months ago is when I started fleshing out the idea after work, during lunch, whenever I could. 5 months ago I finished the script, and now I am drawing it.

For two years though, little Odric existed as only one sketch, it showed what I wanted and I liked it. Many nights scripting were spent looking at this picture and imagining him. They say sometimes your characters take over when you write and come to life, and I found that to be true.

That was a great feeling, but nothing compares to drawing it. Seeing my characters come alive on the page makes me feel kinda like a proud papa . I've drawn TONS of licensed characters, superheroes, characters from other peoples scripts, but none of that has felt as good as this. The character I created, and for the last 2 months I have spent drawing 10 hours a day, has come alive. Hopefully this isn't some weird thing about being alone with my drawing board all day, but I dunno if I care even. I am enjoying it, it's what I always wanted to be doing.

3 comments:

  1. Ok so this now child was once a older big guy knight man, right? I would like to see him keep trying to use his original equipment. Like drag around a sword that he can't even lift or like try wearing his chain mail that just is too heavy and it bogs him down. Something cute like that would be fun.

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  2. Wait till you see how big his horse is!

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  3. Oh shit I remember you telling me about the horse. I never put two and two together and realized a kid this size would be riding it!

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