Project 1: The Comic
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For the first project I was in a group of 3 and asked to create a comic book for the nursery rhyme Rain Rain Go Away. After reading through the nursery rhyme, I began by brainstorming trying to think of a cohesive storyline, or a general idea for the panels. Initially we massively overcomplicated our story, planning to have the terrible weather in the rhyme replicate a women's state of mind. After planning out an entire comic, filled with dark rainy streets, psychedelic acid rain, and writing all over the walls, we decided choosing a simpler story would be more appropriate.
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Instead we decided to write the comic based on the little boy Johnny from the nursery rhyme, where he is stuck inside all day due to extreme rainfall. We knew that working together to make one cohesive comic would be hard due to differing art styles, so we decided to look for a simple illustration style we both liked and felt we could easily replicate. As well as this, we figured out which panels each person would draw, grouping them according to what they contain. This meant all of the windows, houses, and boy are similar and not disjointed. Another thing we discussed was colour palettes, we knew to keep the comic flowing smoothly we should use similar shades for scenes within the house, such as clothing and decorations. I used the app Coolors to generate some palettes I liked and wanted to use in the comic, and then shared with the group to use.
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Below are all of the panels I created for the comic, they aren't in order but further below is a link to the final comic.
Below is a quick mockup of what the final comic should roughly look like, I used both mine, and the rest of my groups panels, to make sure there were no panels missing and the comic wasn't disjointed.
