Soooonnggg Comic

We’ve been given a new brief to create a comic (at least two pages long) based on a song, without any words.

When I first started this comic, I was worried due to only being aloud to have images, meaning I would have to find a way to portray the words, meaning and feeling of the song through single panels and my drawings alone. This also meant that I changed the song. Originally, I was going to use David Bowie’s- Life on Mars, but I decided that would’ve been too complex to do without any words and within the time I had been given.

Song chosen: Christina Perri- The Lonely

Lyrics for comic inspiration:

Dancing slowly in an empty room, -Individual pannels showing a woman dancing, never directly showing her face (EDIT: Splash page of blacks and greys, the middle drawing with pale colours)

Can the lonely take the place of you? -Woman leaning up against ghostly/outlined figure (make it look apart of the dance routine?)

I sing myself a quiet lullaby. -Woman sitting in a grey background, curled in on herself

Let you go and let the lonely in

To take my heart again. -Woman fallen to lie on her side, hair covering her face with grey circling her

Main references:

Muse- Dead inside (Colour tones- how different colours would look in B&W and atmosphere)

Ed Sheeran- Thinking Out Loud (How the skirt material moves/falls/folds whilst dancing, body proportions when stretched and arched whilst dancing, different dnacing poses)

Colour choices:

The only time I coloured the woman in full is for the splash page, due to her blending into the background with out it. I wanted the viewer's eyes to be drawn instantly to the full figure in the center, without misplacing her from the draing style, so I only coloured her with pale colours.

I wanted the male figure to have less colour and shading because I didn't want him to be the center of attention and no defining features as it's not explained who that person is in the song.

I also didn't want to ad any details to a background to make her seem more closed off, sad and lonely.

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