DrawingParadox

Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 29 : 11 : 23 All the other chapters' storyboards are more sophisticated now that chapter 01 was used as the base experience. My thesis is now chapter 04, where I reverse engineered the script and storyboards to get a better understanding on scale between panels, dialogue balloons, and everything else in between so it translates better by time pages get penciled out and completed. Chapter 07 and 09 especially are turning out better than the last third of chapter 02 and particularly better than chapter 01. I also found more efficient methods in being quicker for boarding while staying on model. I figured posting storyboards after all pages would prevent spoilers since it'd be a minute since the whole chapter came out by now. A lot of BSOD occurred while boarding out chapter 01 made more fun with not knowing what I was doing. These storyboards were the first thing done art-wise since working on thesis. I made sure to add detail to properly convey the 30's while still keeping that specific stylistic direction akin to cartoons made in the 30's.

Page 36: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/37 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 09 : 46 : 14 Chapter 02 won't be for a while but once it's posted, so will proceeding chapters. I'm working on the storyboards to chapters 02 - 10 all at once in case of any inconsistencies. By time they need to be penciled, I'll go by chapter and its order, so there'll be a bit of stockpiling before chapter 02 is posted and so it won't be until the completion of chapter 10 that a hiatus goes on longer than needed. Most chapters have an average of 30 pages so structure is easier to manage.

Page 35: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/36 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 11 : 31 : 47 The definitive method in outlining would have been very useful for this page had it been figured out by then. The method used for this page was used for a while and with previous pages until realizing too much time was needed. I used this method so the outline itself would be given multiple passes so it would be more opaque and thus keep color from bleeding through. It was also to help with line weight so nothing was too thin on the inside nor too consistent between the inside and outer contour. This failed method still had it where the contour to any outline is still too thin.

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Page 30: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/31 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 12 : 01 : 32 Chapter 03 has a crowd at one point, no telling how long any of those pages will take if a page of four characters on panels that compose a page takes 12 hours. Chapter 02 has a poker scene which is really what keeps any actual progress on it continuing because I don't know how poker works.

Page 29: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/30 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 13 : 44 : 12 It's this and the next page that makes me concerned for chapters 02 and especially 03, since more characters means more hours needed to finish a page. Chapter 03 has a crowd at one point.

Page 28: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/29 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 06 : 09 : 38 I enjoy getting away with not having to outline anything and bonus points playing with the saturation in the gutter. The blood splatter on this page was used as the primary reference for the remaining pages to keep blood splatter patterns consistent. There's a chapter in the second arc where a scene is nothing but blacked out panels -- that chapter either take the shortest time or even out from something getting overcomplicated or more detailed than usual.

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Page 20: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/21 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 06 : 22 : 25 This page was fun in particular specifically for the explosion and what it entails later on in the story.

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Page 16: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/17 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 10 : 44 : 38 While storyboarding this page, photoshop didn't save any part of it despite habitually saving in case of crashing. I had to pause the recording in Premiere and screenshot everything as the only means of restoration (this wasn't kept in the storyboard speed painting and there's somewhat regret about that). The storyboard speedpainting will be posted after the final page to chapter 01, albeit it'll be at 50 minutes. Before editing out all the pauses and mishaps, it was over an hour -- 10 minutes of collective pauses after sped up from 29 hours of development.

Page 15: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/16 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 10 : 20 : 35 Penciling this page out became more complicated than it should have been, right down to making the same mistakes as the pilot's pages 09 and 10.

Page 14: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/15 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 07 : 40 : 32 The repetition to the original panel layout may have evened out the overall duration to the final.

Page 13: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/14 Beginning of Chapter 01: https://molotovs-in33.thecomicseries.com/comics/1 Total Time - 04 : 56 : 40 Pages 13 and 14's development got interesting specifically because I didn't have the thorough understanding on how moonshine is made. I stayed away from the TV Show Moonshiners because it's all scripted and there wasn't much visual reference and tutorial to go by while penciling out pages.