Animorphs: A Graphic Novel

[charreed.livejournal.com]

Animorphs: A Graphic Novel!



I've officially started work on my graphic novel project I've been thinking, mulling over, starting- then stopping again forever now.... And hopefully with your support and encouragement, I've got it going!   While I have no backlog, my NaNoMangO project for this month is Animorphs! So expect a panel a day :)

Thanks everyone!
-Char

Comments

[karma-fucked.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god. What encouragement do you need? I can even mail you cookies. You are so awesome...and I love your art. And Jake looks sexy. ;-)

[charreed.livejournal.com]

Ooo... Cookies :D

[jadedkoi.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD YES.

Can I color this?

[charreed.livejournal.com]

Well, I was attempting to colour it myself, but I couldn't find a style that was fast enough. This is just the first attempt at a style out of many more to come and I'm sure this panel will end up in the scrap pile eventually :) If you post the colouring online, just make sure to link to the webcomic @ http://www.charrartist.com/Animorphs/

Thanks!

[jadedkoi.livejournal.com]

mm, no intended poaching meant. I just can color well and draw abomidably.

This... Oh man. I think I'm drowning in Fangirl glee here. I don't think there's a way this comic could possibly not be completely awesome.

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

Holy crap.

MORE DAMMIT.

[rideinthelimo.livejournal.com]

Awesome! More please!

[fiiishy.livejournal.com]

**THROWS SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT AT YOU**

**BUCKETFULS**

[jenil.livejournal.com]

OH MAN. YOU WIN, LIKE, 9000 INTERNETS. /tired meme.

I'm going to quite pitifully beg for more.

And this is the first time I've heard of NaNoMangO, how delightfully wonderful. 8D

[charreed.livejournal.com]

I know! I love mangos! :D

More is on the way!

[jenil.livejournal.com]

No pressure, but I'm going to try and use these to convert someone into reading the books.

He's all like "wah wah 60 books wah wah", so after calling him a wimp, I'll direct him to these. :D

[charreed.livejournal.com]

Woo!

Well, at this rate of a panel a day... 54 books, several supplements... it'll only take the rest of my life to finish! :D

How's that for pressuring your friend into reading them? ;)

[tacster002.livejournal.com]

I'm coming out of the shadows just to say I wish you luck and hope it'll be awesome! 8D

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

There's no picture here,just a red X.

[charreed.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I use a site called Posterous to update and I linked from that. It can be a bit flaky depending on the server. I switched it to flickr, which is a bit more stable.

[mmmels.livejournal.com]

I totally dig your style. The line work is very confident and easy going, like you are conversing with a friend through your lines. It also seems to be uniquely YOU. It's not manga or American cartoon or comic book. It's well suited for a graphic novel considering the width and amazing amount of variety that goes on in that genre.

Anyway I look forward to seeing more! I'm a sucker for graphic novels (every time I'm even NEAR a bookstore I always end up walking out of there with a new one). And now you are combining my newly-regained love of Animorphs with one of my major passions of all time. So... YES I'M EXCITED.

[charreed.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

It's been a dream of mine to do Animorphs as a graphic novel for soooo long. Pretty much since the middle of the books, maybe around book 20-30 or so. I just always (and still do a bit) feel intimidated by graphic novels and comics. So many of them are done SO well, and many others... aren't. I didn't want to start this project then just have it fade away into obscurity. I wanted it to mean something and to have a purpose. Hopefully one day even be good enough on it's own merit to warrant Scholatistic contacting me about publishing it officially!

A girl can dream, right?

[mmmels.livejournal.com]

Yeah the world of comics and graphic novels can totally be intimidating. I watch a lot of the big hitter comic-guys on DeviantArt and am quite literally BLOWN THE FUCK AWAY by some of their work. Not to mention there are just SO MANY comic books out there and SO MANY different styles within them all.

I commend you for taking on this huge project. I made a graphic novel in my digital illustration class and it was only a measly 11 pages long and took me like 2/3s OF THE SEMESTER to do it. But my art professors were totally harsh, and every time I thought, "YES, THIS IS IT" they would come with a whole new round of critiques to throw at me which meant REDRAWING entire pages, RE-INKING, RE-COLORING, RE-DOING TYPE... REDOING EVERYTHING at least once haha.

I suggest you get some kind of mentor to give you feedback if you are serious about publishing. It's amazing how much an outside perspective can help.

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

Love the stuff beneath the link though.

[anijen21.livejournal.com]

omggg I am so frakking excited this is going to be sweet! looking forward to your renditions of all the aliens :)

[cxrdevil.livejournal.com]

Looks awesome! So excited :)

[box-life.livejournal.com]

Looks AWESOME.

Marco looks a little like a girl. This is appropriate. :)

You will make me very happy by continuing?

[redsilverchains.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I love Jake's hair!
(What can I say, I always associate him with floppy nineties hair :D)
This is awesome!

[charreed.livejournal.com]

I would love to do a full on published in-bookstores version, but alas there is a lot of red tape with Scholastic. KA doesn't even really hold the rights any more to the series. I could email her to see what could be done.... I'll wait til later though. I'd like to demonstrate what I can do before going that far. :)

[stretch.livejournal.com]

I know I'm late to the party but I just want to say how awesome these look! Marco's hair looks fabulous.

[devimelete.livejournal.com]

Marco's hair is ~*~*FAAAABULOUS~*~* :D

I like this panel A WHOLE LOT because just in that one shot, we kinda get a foreshadowing of what their roles would be: Marco the strategist, and Jake the commander of his little troops, using his controls.

[charreed.livejournal.com]

I think it's really neat how people can pick things out you'd not even intended at first. Really good observation :D