Hi folks, this is a comic project that is a collaboration between a talented writer -Vaclev Urbanek, and a guy trying to stop talking about it and get a comics project completed! I have a couple of comic ideas of my own in the works, but while I'm working out the details of the writing of those, I wanted to get off the dime and go through the process of creating a comic alongside someone who had some idea what they are doing! While I searched for an example of a completed comic script to emulate, I came across this 4 year old post on Reddit from Vaclev. He had thrown 4 of his stories out to whatever artist might come across them as an opportunity to carry these stories to completion as Comics! All he wanted was Writers' credit on the finished piece. This was really exactly the kind of situation I needed to get a project going that I could complete. One of the stories caught my eye. This short story-Garden Party-I thought is a widely relateable slice of life. I was looking for a project that would allow me to do a range of facial expressions and a good amount of subtle visual story telling. I took a course in Visual Storytelling at New Master's Academy a few years back and I had been dying to utilize that bag of tricks! In addition, I had been working out of Mark Simon's 'Facial Expressions' book that I know a lot of comic artist have. I committed to drawing every single expression on every single face featured in the book. I think I got about 30% of them! At least a few major expressions from each model. Anyway, this is not a project that relies a lot on huge, dynamic poses, explosions and colorful skin tight costumes (I love all of that stuff!) but really is about human connection. When we peel away all of the explosions, awesome costumes and machinery I think this is really what we're all looking for. Answers. For example: Why do we feel so out of place some or most of the time? How do we change that, and find our connection to other people? Those are a couple of questions this story tries to illuminate a little. This has definitely been an art project for me, but art is more than mark making, color theory, anatomy, shape and volume. It's a method of communicating things that are difficult to express in words alone. Anyway, I hope you enjoy reading Garden Party! Thank you for stopping to check it out!
Regards,
Ryan
