I found the perfect personal project/fan art in the form of illustrating a scene from a script.
The script is called “Sunflower: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story” and is written by Aunjanue Ellis. I stumbled upon the script excerpt at The Bitter Southerner site. I love reading scripts and was intrigued by this one. And after reading it, my perpetual need to create stuff kicked in.
First, I chose which scene to illustrate. I had to be aware of the time toward this project would be taking away from paid work so I needed to keep it to a minimum while still doing the best quality work that I can do.
Second, the selected scene needed brainstorming and thumbnailing. The following thumbnail drawings were made on semitransparent paper which, as I discovered, is difficult to photograph. Here's the best I could do:
It was a fun creative exercise to interpret the words on a page. The solutions for some moments came easier than others. With every solution came a sense of accomplishment. These are not meant to be pretty pictures especially since this is a solo project. These scribbles are only meant to till me what I’m thinking.
Once I thumbnailed the entire scene, I reviewed it, made changes then circled my final choices in red.
After that, I was ready to start planning the layouts of each panel on each page.
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ReplyDelete* It’s a reminder creative work requires iteration—sketch first, refine later.
ReplyDelete* Time‑management matters: doing something meaningful without over‑committing is key.
* The rough steps (brainstorm → thumbnails → select → layout) are repeatable for any visual storytelling work.