Scene 2, Completed

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…

cadet-russe

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

sk-to-cray

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.

thmb-p5

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

p5b-penc-corr

Some additional posture sketches for the running guy…

p5b-sk

…and the time lapse inking video…

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More videos on my YouTube Channel.

Cheers,

Denis