Bailey redesign concept drawing
on May 31, 2016
at 1:45 am
I will try to post every tuesday and Sat with some sort of concept drawing or something as I try to get things prepared to come back. This drawing mostly was just trying to get a more interesting character design and figure out her skintone etc. When I do bring the comic back I am pretty sure that I will be doing colored pages.
Interesting, looks kinda punky, I like.
Rebooting the story as well or moving on from last strip?
Basically I am going to reboot it in the sense that this first chapter won’t be necessary for understanding the comic. I will devote the first 10 or so pages to explaining what went on and basically try to boil down the 30 pages into a more concice set of pages that are hopefully better, at the very least they will look better as I will redraw it and color it. I am still not 100 percent certain how this comic will go forward. Need to actually write a lot of it down, as well as decide on whether to keep the fanservice the same, include actual nudity, or tone the fanservice down (a lot of that will depend on exactly where I decide to go with the tone). As I’ve hinted at since page 1, there is a big tonal shift in this story. It was going to start in the 3rd arc, and that is where I will be picking things up. Because it was like 30-50 pgs away up until last week I didn’t really think it out in detail, so my plans are pretty basic. I need to over the next month flesh it out and through that will figure out the rest.
So in a sense it is a reboot, but the 30 pages I have done serve as a canonical prequel of sorts.
One thing that might help the flow of the story and help the reader understand the characters better is how Bailey came to like Jordan and why she is a frequent target of Jordan’s wrath.
my thoughts with Bailey is the bullying sort of became sexual for her. That she likely will grow to embrace some BDSM type stuff. That could end up in the comic, but not sure yet. Mostly I am trying to figure out how to cover the big change this comic will undergo, which I will reveal next week, hopefully everyone will be onboard.