Proof of Concept: Diving Scene
I've been doing a ton of thumbnailing the last month and a half and finally decided that I should try out a page to see how I feel about one being fully rendered.
It felt helpful, even if it felt like a pretty indulgent break from thumbnailing. Learned a few things though:
Arches hot press watercolor paper is the way to go. It's smooth and doesn't warp, especially as a block pad. And it's highly durable so I can toil over one page for a long time.
I may use Blackwing pencils instead of micron pens for line work?? This is a lot of storytelling from memory (often from childhood/periods of grief) and the lack of crispness + muted watercolor just feel more appropriate than highly defined lines.
Keeping the pallet subdued will hopefully allow for a full range of colors that is still cohesive. It's easy for color schemes to get a bit psychedelic and scattered with an unlimited pallet, so I'm hoping that softening the saturation will help ground it.
I tried this out to scale just to see how it feels as a reader and if it was comfortable for my hands/eyeballs, but it's a bit too small for me to fully articulate the details/text and ends up requiring more time. I'll probably bump it up a couple inches and be fine.
