Lockdown Diaries.

When we were first given this task of creating a story based upon our lockdown experience, I was very excited. I spent a long time thinking about what kind of story I wanted to tell, and initially I wanted to summarise my whole time in lockdown.

However, when speaking to Tony, I realised that this format didn't work, and felt too disjointed to be a full story. From that conversation, I decided that I wanted to focus in on my experience being a key worker during lockdown as I thought that it would be a story very unique and individual to me. Therefore, I went back to the drawing board and re-planned the comic.

I was much happier with the way this version of the comic turned out - I felt that it was much more fluid, and made a lot more sense. The style of the comic was heavily inspired by the cartoons I watched when I was younger, specifically 'The Amazing World of Gumball'.

I also used my Pinterest board to collect and show inspiration and what influenced my process.

     Next, I went on to create the line art and then colour and finalise the first page spread.

I'm was extremely happy with how this turned out. The textures I added, I feel, really compliment the style and give the spread more depth. Also, the font is very reflective of the borders of each box, meaning that they work very well together. Because of this, I felt I could move on and carry this look and style into the other spreads.

  As I used Procreate to make my comic, I was able to have a recorded time-lapses of all of my work, which worked out really well in displaying my full process. After all of the 'story' pages of my comic were complete, I created my front and back cover to finish everything off. Then the final step was piecing everything together.

Overall, I am so beyond happy with my comic. I think you can tell that I really enjoyed it, and really did put a lot of work and effort in. By far, I think this has been my favourite task this module - I really do prefer the longer pieces that we can really sink our teeth into and take our time with to get right.