Train of thought Drawings / Peaches
Travelling at 6.30am, my thoughts were flitting all over the place. I’d like to tell a story with a parallel distraction, just like a train of thought, whilst recounting past events.
I expect this has been done before but not by me. These little pages are sketches for a bigger story. Perhaps with more (or rather some) planning, they might become more coherent
THE KIND MAN story is a longer one, I’ve been making notes for it rather than doing what I usually do which is to draw straight off the top of my head.
The trouble with doing that is, I miss out good bits sometimes, focus too long on boring bits and don’t finish the story because I run out of time.
The exciting thing about my new experiment – making written notes to be drawn up later – is that I need to buy a new notebook. A little reporter sized one. There’s not been a reason to buy stationery since my pack of 100 metal clip things for radio scripts in June.
Notebook advice welcome
There’s a chance the written notes might never get drawn up though, in which case I’ll go back to sketching as a record.
Telling a story in pictures advice welcome
Is there a right way? Perhaps my haphazard way is the one for me, time will tell
Right, off to dig carrots. In both senses of the word
Comments on "Train of thought Drawings / Peaches"
nice as ever – i like those moleskine notebooks if you’re feeling flash – you can get them cheaper on amazon, utterly extravagant of course, they have a little pocket.
i have seen some of the “memories intercut with the present” stuff in comics before – people reflecting on life choices etc or telling the backstory
i saw a courtroom artist last week – i wondered why there was a big tripod on the pavement in an alleyway then saw her sat on a step sketching away, i could have distracted her in hindsight, shouting out “brown hair!” “angry defendant” “sombre judge!” like one of those people shouting numbers to make you forget a phone number you’re trying to write down.
you could couple your notes with quick sketches of details – if you’re concerned about forgetting good bits you could do a quick & dirty version first – just thumbnails, like a really quick plan, or a set of rectangles on the page with a few descriptive words for each frame – then leave it for a few hours or overnight in case anything else pops up – depends on you of course, name of the game is to do it quickly so it doesn’t become a chore, and it might only be worth doing for longer things 🙂
Please Your Majesty (Tea Queen), give us the “kind man” story.