As the banner at the top of the page says everything what follows now is one year earlier. I think I couldn’t have made this any more clear than that. The building of P&S Steel looks quite different than I had in my mind whilst writing the book but this doesn’t really matter and I like the tower in perspective.
In this scene we meet Ben, the friendly older guy who is the unofficial head of the order desk at P&S Steel. He was pretty easy to design and is quite consistence in his appearance from the drawing point of view, if you say it like that. I’m surprisingly satisfied with the look of Amber, even though I still see this results as a first draft. As I already mentioned, the characters have to develop just as my skills to tell a story with drawings. I dare say that I’m good at things like portrait drawing but developing comic book characters is a totally different discipline and this whole project is one large learning experience for me. There is of course always something that I’m not satisfied about and in the case of Amber it’s the hair. I have to work on that. The adaption from this scene in the book to the graphic novel version is quite straight to the point. The only thing I did different was that you see Martin Farlain heading to the order desk in sequence. In the book he just suddenly appeared in the door.
Adapting a novel into a graphic one has something from adapting it to a movie I guess. You take some things out here and add some things there to get a certain visual flow. At least this is how I think about it.
Authors Commentary On Scene #1 Of Chapter 2
by Mario on December 28, 2010 at 00:01Transcription of the video:
As the banner at the top of the page says everything what follows now is one year earlier. I think I couldn’t have made this any more clear than that. The building of P&S Steel looks quite different than I had in my mind whilst writing the book but this doesn’t really matter and I like the tower in perspective.
In this scene we meet Ben, the friendly older guy who is the unofficial head of the order desk at P&S Steel. He was pretty easy to design and is quite consistence in his appearance from the drawing point of view, if you say it like that. I’m surprisingly satisfied with the look of Amber, even though I still see this results as a first draft. As I already mentioned, the characters have to develop just as my skills to tell a story with drawings. I dare say that I’m good at things like portrait
drawing but developing comic book characters is a totally different discipline and this whole project is one large learning experience for me. There is of course always something that I’m not satisfied about and in the case of Amber it’s the hair. I have to work on that. The adaption from this scene in the book to the graphic novel version is quite straight to the point. The only thing I did different was that you see Martin Farlain heading to the order desk in sequence. In the book he just suddenly appeared in the door.
Adapting a novel into a graphic one has something from adapting it to a movie I guess. You take some things out here and add some things there to get a certain visual flow. At least this is how I think about it.