4. Tutorial with Irina Troitskaya
Today I had spontaneous tutorial with Irina. Here are some notes.
First of all, it would be one week dairy, one chapter per day. At this point I imagine it to be like 7 illustrations (one for each day of the week) and some amount of spot illustrations. And I want to support visually the inner state of the character, which goes more and more depressive with each chapter.
Now I have ~ three draft chapters, but Irina thinks that it is enough to start working with layout. At least, I have to decide what size I want it to be, how much visual I want it to be?
In the case I’d like to transform text into comics (it doesn’t canceled the original text, it could be silent comics frames instead a classic illustration), I was advised to research Angoulême International Comics Festival. More specifically, some French comic artists.
RESEARCH diary structures. I’d like to work on text, make it visual as well. It should be something more interesting and relevant than just use of handwriting font. Irina had an idea of handwritten text transforming into usual font.
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Also, I have to think about main character’s stories. Oh, yes! You probably don’t know. At the work he is writing small fairy tales, instead of working. So, I want to highlight it visually in the text.
During the tutorial, I remembered that my uncle kept a dairy digitally. So, maybe I should think about stylize it as Word document or LJ. In this case, illustrations could be pixelated or drawn in Paint.
Anyway, if I’m going to work with text, I’ll need help of graphic designer.
Some names to research:
Mila Silenina
Мастерская Бориса Трофимова
