The Plan

So the deadline for the 2nd round of the DAWGs tournament is coming up fast. Over the past month I've considered and reconsidered how I want to go about doing this round. Unlike the last round (which I still have to redo some pages for), I've decided to take a whole new approach to 'storytelling' through art and focus on only a handful of broad, self-speaking speedpaints in chronological order instead of the tedious million-panel method of comic making. I figure that working like this is more of my forte, and can be a refreshing change from how most everyone else is going about the tournament.
Basically, I'm aiming for around 5 or so speedpaintings to give a general depiction of what happens for each bounty. That means no dialogue, no unnecessary details, etc. The bad part of this method is that I miss out sharing tiny side-stories during the bounty hunt and working with a lot of facial expressions. The good part of all this is that it lets the reader (viewer, actually) read between the lines and string all the parts together. Saving time was also going to be a benefit, but it turns out it takes me just as long to finish a sloppy painting like this as it does to complete a comic. I certainly enjoy this method much better and like how it's turning out so far.

So enough nonsense blabbering. This is part 1 of the 2nd episode, called The Plan. We have Gabriella talking or probably just listening to 's character, Mellu, giving some sort of plan of action.

There you have it.

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