Page Development

This is so far what I've done for my first double page,

I've used this image as inspiration, my trees however are not as green! I wanted to create a really dulled down colour pallete so there's that stark difference between the white of the bear and it's surroundings, I did hoever add dashes of colour/greens to the leaves in the image.


Paul Nicklen Photography

Here's the development of the double page...
I started off by digitally going over my pencil drawing with colour line, this way whe I traced the digital drawing in illustrator it would keep the coloured line I desired for the main areas.

Initially it was almost too colourful the grass wasn't right and the bear didn't stand out enough.

So I changed it round some more thinking maybe a more grayscale colour palette will work if I change the background? But that wasn't quite right either, I wanted to create continuity throughout the comic, so the same background colour unless you want to change concept of time would be ideal. It was just too dark and I also had to consider I've got 2 other bears in the comic who or a dark grey so it just wouldn't have worked.

This is near to completion, I got the colours just about right but needed something else to not make it look as flat, just needed something. Which is where I started playing around with mist.

This is the final (not completely cleaned up version) I'm currently playing about with adding some mist/cloud to the night sky, you sometimes get that mist in forests, especially if it's high up!