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Yup, this is totally rated General... XD
So there's some creative background to this page when it comes to storytelling and Pro Wrestling.

Daniel Bryan (Legendary WWE wrestler), when giving a seminar on newbies getting into Pro Wrestling, advised the upcomers than no one gives a damn about EVERYTHING that happens during a match. What people actually remember are 'key moments'. The more of those 'moments' you have, the better your match is.

So in terms of writing a story, I asked myself what's a 'moment' people will remember?
And I concluded that seeing a teen getting ripped apart by a werewolf would be PRETTY damn memorable xD

Another example of a 'memorable' moment in werewolf stories was in 'The Wolfman' (2010). That movie was garbage, BUT there were memorable scenes from it like the werewolf crashing through a bus and slaughtering everyone in it. That was badass. The story, not so much.

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Made in January 2017, this project was a culmination of everything I'd learned at MCAD (My Senior Project). All through my MCAD experience, I had one goal and one goal only, Make "Howl", a werewolf horror-comedy graphic novel, and you can see some of the early concepts of the project on my deviantart www.deviantart.com/kzmaster/ga…

This rendition of the comic is an ALPHA release, very early stages of what the finished product will end up being. The process of producing the comic was a ginormous learning exprience and slap in the face I needed to grow as a creator. I had the very naive mindset that, all by MYSELF, I could create a full color graphic novel that would be 200 pages long, at a rate of 20 full color finished pages a month for 10 months. I actually hauled ass on creating this comic and worked the most efficiently I'd ever worked. I ended up creating 24 full color pages (couldn't get to lettering though) in one month, but I was putting in 12-16 hour work days and by the end of the month I was already burnt out.

I honestly can't remember how I cranked pages out so quickly, I was really utilizing all the tricks and tools of photoshop at the time to accomplish tasks efficiently.

I took on much more than I could handle, but on the plus side, I managed to do what was supposed to take 5 months of work in 1. My Senior project was finished. BUT I became deathly ill with Guillian Barre Syndrome and had to go on medical leave from school for 3-4 months. Every. single. day. was pain. I was bed ridden, taking 12 pills a day (overdosed on medication one day), my mind was fogged from the medication, I couldn't stay awake for more than a few hours, and my condition only worsened- about month 3 I got depressed - until I got an IGA infusion. It was in this fog though that I conceptualized the early stages of what would become Zach Cooner however.

From there my health improved enough for me to return to school and finish my schoolwork to graduate, yay. I say this all because the red flag completely flew over my head in all this, I should have seen the warning signs earlier and studied on the average work production of a comic and what in entailed. It was through this project I learned making comics is A LOT of work, way more than I had anticipated. In order to tell the long and detailed stories I wanted to tell, it would take lots of time, time that could be spent making other stories.

I thought I could do it all by myself, and its possible with time, but for all the projects I wanted to do, I needed to set aside my fears and pride and admit that having or hiring a team is the way to go. (Something I realized a little too late with Zach Cooner vol 1, which is why I'm switching to a different media in the form of Visual Novels and Illustrated stories).

I hope you all enjoy this milestone in my life of Senior College Student. The story didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted it to, but future renditions of "Howl" will have a much more detailed story and the characters will be able to truly express themselves without the limit of a speech bubble or comic panel. Who knows, YOU might even get to interact with them and change how the story plays out

Enjoy!

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Description

Yup, this is totally rated General... XD
So there's some creative background to this page when it comes to storytelling and Pro Wrestling.

Daniel Bryan (Legendary WWE wrestler), when giving a seminar on newbies getting into Pro Wrestling, advised the upcomers than no one gives a damn about EVERYTHING that happens during a match. What people actually remember are 'key moments'. The more of those 'moments' you have, the better your match is.

So in terms of writing a story, I asked myself what's a 'moment' people will remember?
And I concluded that seeing a teen getting ripped apart by a werewolf would be PRETTY damn memorable xD

Another example of a 'memorable' moment in werewolf stories was in 'The Wolfman' (2010). That movie was garbage, BUT there were memorable scenes from it like the werewolf crashing through a bus and slaughtering everyone in it. That was badass. The story, not so much.

________________________________
Made in January 2017, this project was a culmination of everything I'd learned at MCAD (My Senior Project). All through my MCAD experience, I had one goal and one goal only, Make "Howl", a werewolf horror-comedy graphic novel, and you can see some of the early concepts of the project on my deviantart www.deviantart.com/kzmaster/ga…

This rendition of the comic is an ALPHA release, very early stages of what the finished product will end up being. The process of producing the comic was a ginormous learning exprience and slap in the face I needed to grow as a creator. I had the very naive mindset that, all by MYSELF, I could create a full color graphic novel that would be 200 pages long, at a rate of 20 full color finished pages a month for 10 months. I actually hauled ass on creating this comic and worked the most efficiently I'd ever worked. I ended up creating 24 full color pages (couldn't get to lettering though) in one month, but I was putting in 12-16 hour work days and by the end of the month I was already burnt out.

I honestly can't remember how I cranked pages out so quickly, I was really utilizing all the tricks and tools of photoshop at the time to accomplish tasks efficiently.

I took on much more than I could handle, but on the plus side, I managed to do what was supposed to take 5 months of work in 1. My Senior project was finished. BUT I became deathly ill with Guillian Barre Syndrome and had to go on medical leave from school for 3-4 months. Every. single. day. was pain. I was bed ridden, taking 12 pills a day (overdosed on medication one day), my mind was fogged from the medication, I couldn't stay awake for more than a few hours, and my condition only worsened- about month 3 I got depressed - until I got an IGA infusion. It was in this fog though that I conceptualized the early stages of what would become Zach Cooner however.

From there my health improved enough for me to return to school and finish my schoolwork to graduate, yay. I say this all because the red flag completely flew over my head in all this, I should have seen the warning signs earlier and studied on the average work production of a comic and what in entailed. It was through this project I learned making comics is A LOT of work, way more than I had anticipated. In order to tell the long and detailed stories I wanted to tell, it would take lots of time, time that could be spent making other stories.

I thought I could do it all by myself, and its possible with time, but for all the projects I wanted to do, I needed to set aside my fears and pride and admit that having or hiring a team is the way to go. (Something I realized a little too late with Zach Cooner vol 1, which is why I'm switching to a different media in the form of Visual Novels and Illustrated stories).

I hope you all enjoy this milestone in my life of Senior College Student. The story didn't exactly turn out the way I wanted it to, but future renditions of "Howl" will have a much more detailed story and the characters will be able to truly express themselves without the limit of a speech bubble or comic panel. Who knows, YOU might even get to interact with them and change how the story plays out

Enjoy!

Posted using PostyBirb