Last Tuesday I had my illustration class exam. My teacher Stijn and his colleague Other Stijn looked at my assignments and commented on them. The comments were mainly from Other Stijn, because he, of course, had never seen our stuff before. Other Stijn was none too impressed with my pencilled first page (this one), which he thought looked like an unexciting Christmas card and seemed "quite dead". I told him about my difficulty in determining a style I liked for my comic and showed him my notebook with the pages I post here. And he was a LOT more enthusiastic about those. In fact, he seems to think I shouldn't change anything - that is, keep the colours, keep the format, keep the sketchy style, even publish the thing with the whole notebook look, yellowish paper and all.
Stijn agreed and now says I should go for the comic, in notebook style, next year. He wants me to produce a 'new old' page each week, just like I do with the 'new new' pages I post here. I am not sure yet how he is going to supervise and correct the new pages if I am going to do them the sketchy way, because I don't really see how this way of working leaves room for correction (the reason why it moves so quickly is because all the mistakes stay where they are and I barely use any reference). Maybe he'll have me redraw stuff and do cut and paste? I don't know. In any case, if things really do play out this way, the definitive version of the comic should move along a LOT faster than it has been doing until now. And if I am honest, I am not a little relieved that I can ditch the pencil style ;p.
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Arthur and his men are in Venta, where the Sword of Kings has remained stuck in a stone for ages. And you know what? Arthur actually manages to pull it out! Having freed several British slaves as well as the Irish warrior Morholt, Arthur and his men now try to make it home before they get caught by a Saxon patrol. But they haven't got far when they run into Pellinore, King of the Jutes, who challenges Arthur to a fight, gives him a good beating, then wants to be friends. -Right...
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THE STORY SO FAR:
Part I: The Darkest Hour
1-3 - 4-6 - 7-9 - 10-12 - 13-15 - 16-18 - 19-21 - 22-24 - 25-27 - 28-31 - 32-35 - 36-40 - 41-44 - 45-47 - 48-50 - 51-53 - 54-57 - 58-60 - 61-64 - 65-66 - 67-69 - 70-73 - 74-75 - 76-81 - 82-84 - 85-87 - 88-90 - 91-92 - 93-97 - 98-101 - 102-103 - 104-108 - 109-111 - 112-114 - 115-119
Interlude: The Sword of Kings
Brothers and Sisters
1-3 - 4-6 - 7-9 - 10-12 - 13-15 - 16-18 - 19-21 - 22-24 - 25-27 -28-30 - 31-33 - 34-36 - 37-39 - 40-42 - 43-45 - 46-48 - 49-51 - 52-54 - 55-57 - 58-60 - 61-63 - 64-66 - 67-69 - 70-72- 73-75 - 76-78 - 79-81 - 81 - 82 - 83 - 84 - 85 - 86 - 87 - 88 - 89 - 90 - 91 - 92 - 93 - 94 - 95 - 96 - 97 - 98 - 99 - 100 - 101 - 102 - 103 - 104 - 105 - 106 - 107 - 108 - 109 - 110 - 111 - 112 - 113 - 114 - 115 - 116 - 117 - 118 - 119 - 120 - 121 - 122 - 123 - 124 - 125 - 126 - 127 - 129 - 130 - 131 - 132 - 133 - 134 - 135 - 136 - 137 - 138 - 139 - 140 - 141 - 142 - 143 - 144 - 145 - 146 - 147 - 148 - 149 - 150 - 151 - 152 - 153 - 154 - 155 - 156 - 157 - 158 - 159 - 160 - 161 - 162 - 163 - 164 - 165 - 166 - 167 - 168 - 169 - 170 - 171
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