Willis Henry Chapter 3 Page 10 Build

 Page 10 Construction

Top Page: Page is mostly finished, just needs some final adjustments 

Middle Page: Near finished page, without text and adjustments 

Bottom: Sketch Page version with framing.

I love this page (but I think I love all my pages haha)

[Note] This week starts my Summer Schedule where I will be posting less as I go out into the world for some fun and sun.  

Update to the blog will be about every two week (hopefully)

I will return to weekly posting starting in September.

Enjoy the Summer!

Trey

Willis Henry Chapter 3 Page 22 Build

 Page 22 Construction

Top Page: Formatted with most elements, but needs adjustments and clean up.

Middle Page: Most element in place, with out text and adjustments and clean up.

Bottom Page: Sketch Version of  the page.

I really like this page, mostly because it's when two characters meet.

[Note] I will be starting my Summer schedule when posts will be lighter because I'll be going outside to enjoy the summer time. Summer schedule are the months of July and August.

See ya next week!

Willis Henry Chapter 3 Page 21 Build

 Page 21 Construction

Top: Page Format with most of the elements in place but needs clean up and adjustments

Middle: Frame ink and character colors

Bottom: Sketch version with frames.

This page was fairly straightforward  in construction, paneling and backgrounds.

See ya next week.

Willis Henry Chapter 3 Page 14 Build

 Page construction part 2

Top: Page Format-with most of the elements in place. CleanUp and adjustment needed

Middle: Page Format-without Text. Adjustments still need

Bottom: Sketch with some text ideas and Panel Framing

Notes: I think I might replace panel 1 with a new background(bg).  Also some of the other bg's might be too in focus and distract from the characters; so I might take some out of focus... we'll see.

Keep shining!

 

Willis Henry Chapter 3 Page 1 Build

 Let's show the construction of a page!  

Top: Page Format Ruff with most elements except Full Backgounds

Middle: Ruff Construction Panel, Character Color with Text

Bottom: Ruff Sketch with some text

See ya next week

Willis Henry Chapter 03 Backgrounds Watercolor

 Willis Henry Water Color Backgrounds 

Top: Proteus Toy House

Upper Middle: Vekks Ship

Middle: Texture Backgrounds

Lower Middle: Proteus Toy House Reject

Bottom: Vekks Ship Reject

The bottom two are mostly rejected early versions. I thought I could do better (more colorful) which lead to the top two.  The top two are not quite done; but are a much better representation of what I'm going for. 

While the middle is a texture sheet that has many purposes, for example when a scene has been established by and establishing shot I can us a backdrop in faded similar colors to imply place. Also extreme emotions like shock a faded yellow texture can work well.

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Willis Henry Key Image Color Test

 Willis Henry Illustrator Color Test.  I'm using alternate version of the Willis Henry ThumbsUp pose to test out colors. The hardest part is finding color combination that look good to you, out of the near infinite colors of the digital world. 

Once I find a color scheme I like; then I lock them in with the color swatches beside the character. Then, I can copy and paste the swatches into the other character project to make the process easier in the future.

Have a happy weekend

See ya next week

Willis Henry Key Image and Title Clean

 Key Image and Title experiments complete!  It took some time but these came out nice. There are tweaks,  revisions, and clean up... but I'm proud of the progress.  Done in adobe illustrator for clean vector images that can scale.

Next up is adjustment then colors, but for the blog let's get into some comic pages...

Keep Shining!

See Ya

Willis Henry Title (Work In Progress)

 I have been on the struggle bus for a while with this Willis Henry title design.  This one has been so hard, but I think the corner has turned. Thank Goodness.

I have an example of the Beautiful Beast Kiss title design, which was so much easier to concept and design and seemed to come out fully formed...

As for Willis Henry I think the title design ideas are coming faster, so I think I got it. Now it's time to polish, tweak, and think of variants.

Onward

Trey

Heroes Key Image Illustrator (Clean Lines)

Next step for the Key Images is the Clean Lines; for this I use Illustrator, because not only are the lines super clean, but because the lines are vectors I can scale them up and down without pixelation.  So, in the Illustrator program my usual process; I start with the Heads and outlines of the characters with a bolder thicker line; after that, facial features, then inner lines and details.

Next week let's do some title designs for Willis Henry

Until then Keep Shining 

Willis Henry Heroes Key Images (3 of 3)

 The Trio of Heroes Key Image part 3!

So, the purpose of the Key Images for me is a classic evergreen image; one the can be used to explain the style and tone of Willis Henry Series while demonstrating the characters and their personalities.  Now, that I have the key images, it's time to level them up/clean up in Illustrator... so that is next.

See ya next week.

Willis Henry Heroes Key Images (2 of 3)

  The Trio of Heroes Key Image part 2.  This is a variation off of the image of last week, and the purpose for me is to have the characters in poses that not only reflect their character but also can work if one or both other characters are taken out.  This flexibility means the images can work on their own with or without text.  Overall, the key images are some of the most versatile evergreen images.

See ya next week.

Willis Henry Heroes Key Image and Series Title (1 of 3)

 So, we return to our Key Heroes.  Now, I need to think about Key images and a Series Title Design that could be put on the book cover or marketing material.  So I use these images of Willis Henry, Quiss, Phen, and Love(The little floating robot) to solidify the character designs, expressions, and attitudes. 

The Title is more complex... mostly because I don't do Title designs very often.  I did like how I did the Beautiful Beast Kiss Title Design.  The challenge is designing a title that embodies what the series is about just with title, and currently I have a few idea but finding the ONE... that's tricky.  Ah, I'll figure it out.

Anyways, Take Care!

See ya next week.

Willis Henry Series Influences Color

 Willis Henry Series Influences altogether and in color!  These are not the only influences.. oh, there are so many more.  But for some example that easily come to mind... and is just an excuse to draw some of them.

Later

Keep Shining

Trey

Willis Henry Series Influences: The Legend of Zelda (Part 3 of 3)

 Willis Henry Series Influences set number 03... the Legend of Zelda Series.

The Zelda series, specifically the Wind Waker has a great influence on Willis Henry not only in concept but also design and story.

Willis Henry design, world, and color palette were inspired from Wind Waker.  The Character of Quiss has a lot of elements of Tetra in characterization of being the wildcard free spirit.  Princess Phen has elements of Princess Zelda in the concept and dynamics of the Princess and her Knight. While Medli and the humanoid bird people went into the design concepts of Phen.

For these and many other examples, the Legend of Zelda are great influences on the Willis Henry Series.

See ya next week.

Willis Henry Series Influences: DragonBall and Tetsuwan Atomu (Astroboy) (Part 2 of 3)

 Willis Henry Series has a lot of influences both indirectly and directly.

Tetsuwan Atomu has many many influences the biggest being the introduction of robots and the concept of robots with emotions.  These ideas had a great place in the world of Willis Henry.

Dragon Ball is one of my favorite manga to read, and young Goku and his adventures with his friends and rivals influenced Willis Henry greatly.  From Goku fighting poses, to animal people, robot, and even architecture.  I love young Goku and the pure adventure of early DragonBall, and all of this contributed to Willis Henry.  

For these reasons and many others, Dragonball and Tetsuwan Atomu are great influences on the Willis Henry Series.

See ya next week

Willis Henry Series Influences: Aesop's Fables/John Henry (Part 1 of 3)

 Willis Henry has a lot of influences both indirectly and directly.  So. let's talk about some of the major influences of Willis Henry Series.

Aesop's Fable was one of the largest and earliest influences.  Willis Henry started as short stories of a boy meeting animal people that had a moral or something both he and the animal character learned in each story. 

So, what changed is when Willis Henry in idea moved closer to another influence of John Henry, the Rail/steel worker and his competition with a machine; this reshaped the story.  Adding more robots and man/machines conflict changed much about the story.

Today, the Willis Henry still has a majority of Animal People so Aesop's Fable is a major Influence.

See ya next week