Maelstrom 1 p9
The action picks up. More panels per page, more suspense… and more stuff to draw. And more reference needed. But let’s start with the thumbnail sketches.
Maelstrom 1 p8
The trick for this page was to have subsequent horizontal panels featuring a bunch of vertical shapes, the trees, without them looking too much like they’re one and the same. I tried to make them go out of the frame in different spots and changed the grey VS black tones to avoid as much confusion…
Maelstrom 1 p7 – Behind the Scene
This is the page where the Raven, being our narrator, propels us into the story. In a way, Maelstrom is nothing but a campfire story. Only here, it’s a raven that has a flashlight under its beak. Ha! Here is the thumbnail sketch used for the final page. Note that I decided to drop the top…
Maelstrom 1 p6
Here’s the second half of the “big” layout. I waited until now to show you the thumbnail sketch. Trying to avoiding a spoiler, here. To me, it still works as two single page as both halves show the character answering each other. It’s as if the first half is one character speaking and the second…
Maelstrom 1 p5 – Behind the Scene
For this one, I hesitated. I didn’t know if this page (and the next) was just redundant and made the action slow down. I still don’t know. You tell me. What made me keep it is the design, although I wanted to get the story moving progressively faster with more panels per page, the idea was…
Maelstrom 1 p4
As I said before about the previous page, I was thinking of a larger layout that could combine page 3 and 4 into a vertical format. Here’s the bottom part of the design; we’re inside the house with the tree growing in the middle.
Maelstrom Page3
Page 3 is based on a layout in two parts. Hopefully, it will read well as separate pages. Here’s the sketch which is about letter size. You’ll note that I changed my mind about the raven landing on the first (big) panel instead of the second one.
