First things first... I can’t attempt to make a graphic novel, no matter how short, without understanding what great looks like. Enrolled in the city library to explore its graphic novel selection.
Some ideas I captured from Hilda...
Use of colours to convey level on intensity/anger
Credit: Luke Pearson, Flying Eye Books
Conveying vastness
Credit: Luke Pearson, Flying Eye Books
Action sequences from multiple perspectives
Credit: Luke Pearson, Flying Eye Books
DC Comics are very advanced. The drawings are absolutely gorgeous!!
Credit: DC COMICS, Earth One by Geoff Johns & Gary Frank
What attracted me most was the storytelling techniques by Scott Snyder. Sometimes, the narrative is driving a tangential point the drawings, while matching the sequence perfectly. These tangential sequences are used to add depth to the story; to reveal something about the world without taking you away from the immediate action. It is very clever!
Volume 1 of Batman: The Court of Owls featured a script, a format I can use for my own story!
Credit: DC COMICS, Batman: Volume 1, The Cour of Owls by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo Jonathan Glapion
Lastly, I bought a fiction writing course on Audible. I’ll share some insights from it in a future post.
