hi! i'm planning to make a comic out of a story that one of my friends wrote, so i'd really apreciate any feedback people could give. the premise of the story is this: following the quick fall of most of civilization and technology as far as we're aware, our group of friends (9 or 10 of us in the story) sets out together. (if you're interested, it lives
here.)
below i have the first page that i've drawn (it's actually the 20th page in sequence), and the section of the story it's meant to illustrate. my biggest problem, i think, is that i really don't know how to use photoshop effectively. the two finished panels each took me *several* hours, so if i'm going to do this for real, i know i've got to find a quicker way to do it. another small concern is, do you think it's a good idea to use our real names and the places in the area the way jerrit wrote them? he has us trekking all over our end of the county, and drawings are based off the real road and bridge where the fight takes place, but people's houses are in here too, and i was kinda planning to draw them as i know them to be. is that generally considered a really bad idea?
Route 28 was littered with stopped cars. Most sat on the shoulder, but some were in the middle of the road. A few of them had their windows broken. All of them looked pathetic. I sighed deeply at the thought of my beloved Saab sitting in the driveway, never to run again. Walking down the first hill towards the bridge, it became clear that there was a recently placed baracade across the bridge itself. Barbed wire and overturned cars blocked the way. As our group came close to the foot of the bridge, three strange men came out from behind the baracade. One had a metal pipe, annother had a wooden baseball bat, and the third carried a long hunting knife. The one with the knife yelled out to us, "Food or water to cross the bridge!" There was some muttering, and Adam yelled back, "What do you need water for? You're on top of a small river!" The man was unfazed, and repeated his demand.
thanks for reading all of that, any advice would be greatly appreciated!!
