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Guardian first began in my mind, as just a small comic I could draw to practice my drawing skills. It just started with Jesh and Rio and never really progressed anywhere. I laid the simple idea of Geneva’s character and built very slowly from there.
It occurred to me that I could combine opportunities, and practice in another way too. I realised that by setting this comic in the world I’d created for my novel I could enlarge on the idea of tradition, as well as history and time.
Thus the comic setting shifted entirely.
The comic as a whole though, would never have gone anywhere, had one evening I not decided to make the transition, of bringing to of my developed and favourite characters, out of the world I originally thought them in, and planting them in the world of my novel. It took AGES for me to finally settle all the small details, and to rebuild their lives so that they fitted into the new scenario.
Since the arrival of Flane and Almirith, (not to mention numerous characters that came too) the entire plotline became easier to write. I pulled some basic ideas from my novel, and combined them with the simple plot I’d already written.
Having said all that, the story for “A voice in the Darkness” is fairly short, and not that difficult to follow. It’s really only a warm up for the much bigger comic I want to draw that comes after this. “A voice in the Darkness” sets the scene and also lays some important foundation stones for its sequel. About half the cast continue through into the next comic, where they are joined by a LOT of new characters, including those previously only mentioned in dreams and flashbacks of the current comic.
I hope you enjoy the comic. The art isn’t always amazing, but the original purpose was so that I could learn- which I’m defiantly doing. I hope there aren’t too many plot holes- I tried hard to bring everything together at the end, and anything that seems open ended it likely to be continued into the sequel: “Hope for the Fallen”
It occurred to me that I could combine opportunities, and practice in another way too. I realised that by setting this comic in the world I’d created for my novel I could enlarge on the idea of tradition, as well as history and time.
Thus the comic setting shifted entirely.
The comic as a whole though, would never have gone anywhere, had one evening I not decided to make the transition, of bringing to of my developed and favourite characters, out of the world I originally thought them in, and planting them in the world of my novel. It took AGES for me to finally settle all the small details, and to rebuild their lives so that they fitted into the new scenario.
Since the arrival of Flane and Almirith, (not to mention numerous characters that came too) the entire plotline became easier to write. I pulled some basic ideas from my novel, and combined them with the simple plot I’d already written.
Having said all that, the story for “A voice in the Darkness” is fairly short, and not that difficult to follow. It’s really only a warm up for the much bigger comic I want to draw that comes after this. “A voice in the Darkness” sets the scene and also lays some important foundation stones for its sequel. About half the cast continue through into the next comic, where they are joined by a LOT of new characters, including those previously only mentioned in dreams and flashbacks of the current comic.
I hope you enjoy the comic. The art isn’t always amazing, but the original purpose was so that I could learn- which I’m defiantly doing. I hope there aren’t too many plot holes- I tried hard to bring everything together at the end, and anything that seems open ended it likely to be continued into the sequel: “Hope for the Fallen”