Ishi No Kokoro Manga

Conclusion: This project has been a first for me in terms of completing a entire start to end comic in a standard which would be acceptable to publish.  Looking back over the project there are a couple areas I would probably have tweaked in order to save time, and make the work process a little cleaner and more efficient, such as more research on specific topics or do slightly more planning on locations and size proportions of characters to the surrounding backgrounds and such. But either way I have found this to be a successful project, and have come out the other end with something I am actually proud of. As I am naturally very critical of my own work, there are pages I wish I had changed a little, improved the artwork or colouring technique on. But I feel it is a healthily low number, so it shouldn’t affect my confidence when pitching it and trying to get people as invested in the characters as I am. With Stoke-Con now under my belt, refreshing my mind to what tabling really entail

Double Pages One of my double page spreads will be a continuous image exploding across the page. I have researched some of existing ones to see how they appear within existing books. Some are a continuous image, others have a bar of white down the middle to show where the page divides. This is to stop some of the artwork being lost in the binding. I think this approach is actually quite clever as it does preserve the artwork. I have drawn it on one A3 page, so that it divides up on 2 A4's or A5's. But I was concerned on how it would be seen on the page when contained within a book.

11/4/18 Three weeks are left before the deadline and the stress has begun to raise its head. Its apparent in all the 5 members attending, myself included. Although I am proud to see that instead of panicking and submitting to the pressure, everyone is raising their work effort and trying their best to meet the deadline head-on. The table dimensions was posted today for the MCM table which is 2 x 6 foot. In the following weeks we will discuss the presentation method and display ideas for the table. We also discussed the possibility of business cards and other merchandise for our group. Millie is still waiting on  response from her father on the car arrangements, which means there is a halt in buying train tickets for the moment. MCM has rather strict rules against fanart if you are not behind a dealers table so original artworks will be required, weather it is comic influenced or not is another matter entirely and a personal decision. Again the banner was discussed, but we came to

Due to personal illness I was unable to attend the original lesson that the screen printing took place in. Therefore I completed it at a later date. As I was present for the tutorials on how to do it, I arranged a time with one of our tutors and proceeded to do a tester on the tote bag. I had several ideas when it came to designs to screen print such as our group publishing logo, or perhaps a logo from within the story I have been illustrating. However I ended up settling on the little puppet creature in my story which goes by the name of Loic. I though this would be challenging in both design and cutting out the stencil. But also would be a cute design which someone might be interested in buying/ winning in a 20p per ticket raffle. The process: After designing the image I wanted in a black and white scale, I had to figure out how it would appear once inked through, what parts would need an extra line to show the outline, and what places needed to be blacked out. After going t