We continue the scene established by Tristan. This one needed more preparation than usual since a lot of the visual assets will be reused a lot later.

First of all, the troops. I needed a credible look for the cadets, youngsters who were just recruited and thrown into training with ill-fitting, hand me down uniforms…

Here are some sketches that show the progression from rough sketch to tight (relatively) pencils…

And here’s the thumbnail sketch for page 5a and 5b together to give a feeling of what it would look like in a “regular” printed edition.

More stages of drawing, from initial sketch to cleaner to… a correction requested by Tristan. The guy needed to be younger. My bad…

Some additional posture sketches for the running guy…

…and the time lapse inking video…

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More videos on my YouTube Channel.

Cheers,

Denis

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