Crumbs: More Concept Art and Good News!

I was intending to create more concept artwork after handing in my dissertation and late development but once again I was hit with a wave of laziness and didn't do it. Very annoying of me.

But I have done one piece that people following the Facebook page will be aware of, as it is the timeline header. I wanted to develop Lilac more and had intended on drawing a lot of character interaction concepts mainly involving her reactions and relationships to and with the characters. Sadly this wasn't meant to be, at least not for the time being. But I did manage to capture a large part of her personality- the nurturing, caring side that Tweak brings out in her.

I had to use a photo as reference for the pigeons and also to experiment with the different background, not merely using the shape tool this time. I also wanted to show Tweak more puffed up and happy as he is quite skinny and nervous a lot of the time. It was a nice change of scene and I think the colours all work together nicely to create a nice serene image. If anyone has any critique or advice, please share!

In other news, the comic has begun.

As in the pages have begun being made. Like, months later than I planned. But in honesty I'm kind of glad it took this long as the idea I had five months ago sucks in comparison to the one I have now. I've had time to properly develop things, I suppose. So I guess it's worked out for the best. Even if I had to suffer through icky poopy essays, ew.

I have two pages done so far and have emailed them to my friend Rachel for some critique. I don't know how many I'll have done in time for Friday (the last ever hand in day, btw) but as long as it's enough to show the comic kicking off, it'll be good enough for me, and hopefully for the college as well.

As for the comic's official release date, I'm planning for sometime after the 20th of July. This is to give me enough time to build up a decent buffer of pages to upload to the tumblr site, time to share some stories at the exhibitions and also time to spend a week in Spain with my family without having to worry about the comic. Once that holiday in Spain is over, it'll be job applications everywhere, animation based work and Crumbs pages constantly!

So yeah, that's the basic plan. But I hope to have the exact date soon once I know exactly when we'll be back from Spain. If you want to see some of the pages and concepts before they appear on the site, you'll have to come to the exhibitions Crumbs will be featured at, alongside some other work that I still need to talk about but can't currently.

Thanks for reading and I hope you're as excited as I am for Crumbs!