Quest for Color pages 1-6
Hey everybody. I'm back, this time with the first installment of my long-anticipated final Color Processes project, a thirty-page comic entitled Quest for Color.
Really quick synopsis: a young boy is charged by a wizard with a quest to bring color back into a world from which all the color was stolen and everything is in greyscale. The color comes from three different color crystals in red, green, and blue. It's a long journey, and he has to go through three different terrains-- a volcano (red), a forest (green), and a lake (blue). He encounters three different mythical creatures, one for each different setting and color-- a phoenix (red), a dragon (green), and a mermaid (blue).
Some quick technical stuff: I wrote and illustrated this all myself. For some of the plot, I got help from Marissa and Jason, and for how to write the script I got a little indirect help from Neil Gaiman, but everything aside from that I did myself. This was all done with Prismacolor markers on bleed-free marker paper. My set has three different greysales, and I used one for each of the different terrains. I also used some Staedtler permanent markers for the outlining and lettering. Keep in mind that I will also be making more in-depth commentary about each page underneath each image.
Dedication: I dedicate this to my sister, who is the indirect namesake for the girl in the story, and who helped me a whole lot in this process.
This is the cover page. It's actually the last thing I did for the story, so it's really not that involved, because I was just trying to get this all done so I could make a deadline. But I was trying to go for the whole montage effect, you know, seeing the different characters and the different crystals, and a little hint of the different kinds of places the boy will have to travel to retrieve them.
This is just an establishing shot of the earth with color in it. It's a bleed page, which means the image runs off the page and doesn't have any borders.
This is the same bleed landscape, but now all in black and white. The caption reads "And then..." to signify that the color suddenly left the earth.
This is the introduction to the little boy, who was born on the same day as the color left the world, as well as the wizard who chooses the boy to go on the journey. The wizard's crystal ball also plays a pretty big role in the rest of the story.
The wizard visits the young boy for the first time, fifteen years after the color left the world, which means the boy is fifteen. He reveals himself to the boy much like Obi-Wan Kenobi first reveals himself to Luke in A New Hope, which I definitely did on purpose because I am a nerd.
Inside the wizard's home. We see stereotypical wizard things, like books and jars full of stuff and frogs. Once again we have the crystal ball.
The rounded edge denotes that the scene in this page is inside the crystal ball. Obviously this is not what the world really looks like, but the colors are intense, and they're what really matter in this story. Also I thought this was an artistic way of combining all of the places he would eventually be visiting if he chose to accept the quest.
Okay, hope you liked these pages. (It gets more exciting as it goes on-- these are just sort of the establishing pages.) Comments are of course welcomed. Stay tuned for the next installment!
Really quick synopsis: a young boy is charged by a wizard with a quest to bring color back into a world from which all the color was stolen and everything is in greyscale. The color comes from three different color crystals in red, green, and blue. It's a long journey, and he has to go through three different terrains-- a volcano (red), a forest (green), and a lake (blue). He encounters three different mythical creatures, one for each different setting and color-- a phoenix (red), a dragon (green), and a mermaid (blue).
Some quick technical stuff: I wrote and illustrated this all myself. For some of the plot, I got help from Marissa and Jason, and for how to write the script I got a little indirect help from Neil Gaiman, but everything aside from that I did myself. This was all done with Prismacolor markers on bleed-free marker paper. My set has three different greysales, and I used one for each of the different terrains. I also used some Staedtler permanent markers for the outlining and lettering. Keep in mind that I will also be making more in-depth commentary about each page underneath each image.
Dedication: I dedicate this to my sister, who is the indirect namesake for the girl in the story, and who helped me a whole lot in this process.
This is the cover page. It's actually the last thing I did for the story, so it's really not that involved, because I was just trying to get this all done so I could make a deadline. But I was trying to go for the whole montage effect, you know, seeing the different characters and the different crystals, and a little hint of the different kinds of places the boy will have to travel to retrieve them.
This is just an establishing shot of the earth with color in it. It's a bleed page, which means the image runs off the page and doesn't have any borders.
This is the same bleed landscape, but now all in black and white. The caption reads "And then..." to signify that the color suddenly left the earth.
This is the introduction to the little boy, who was born on the same day as the color left the world, as well as the wizard who chooses the boy to go on the journey. The wizard's crystal ball also plays a pretty big role in the rest of the story.
The wizard visits the young boy for the first time, fifteen years after the color left the world, which means the boy is fifteen. He reveals himself to the boy much like Obi-Wan Kenobi first reveals himself to Luke in A New Hope, which I definitely did on purpose because I am a nerd.
Inside the wizard's home. We see stereotypical wizard things, like books and jars full of stuff and frogs. Once again we have the crystal ball.
The rounded edge denotes that the scene in this page is inside the crystal ball. Obviously this is not what the world really looks like, but the colors are intense, and they're what really matter in this story. Also I thought this was an artistic way of combining all of the places he would eventually be visiting if he chose to accept the quest.
Okay, hope you liked these pages. (It gets more exciting as it goes on-- these are just sort of the establishing pages.) Comments are of course welcomed. Stay tuned for the next installment!