WELL this one took time to make. 12 panels… TWELVE, but noooooo I wanted to properly make it hahaha, this is normally week and a half of updates, and here it is in just one… Well, time to work on the next one!
Editorial: Ok, so I wanted to talk more about this update, specially about comic creation, visual story telling and the fluidity of a scene. So this update is 12 panels long, and what happens is that Jordi comes downs from the rooftop, knocks on Helena’s door, talks to her and leave, with a joke at the end. If I wanted it, this comic could’ve been told in 9 panels instead of 12, I think that panels 2, 3 and 5 are not needed for the story that this strip wanted to tell. BUT I decided to still use them, because eventhough they don’t provide a lot to the main story they do add a lot for the “fluidty” of the scene. In comic 2-3 I wanted to portray one thing, it’s cold. Now that’s not necesary, but throughout this story arc I gave the context that this is a winter time. So if I’m having these characters stand in a rooftop with no coats or jackets for some minutes, I feel like it’s logical for them, here Becca, to address that “damn, it’s actully cold up here”. So that’s why I panels 2-3 felt necessary, at least for me.
Now panel 5, you could jump form panel 4 to panel 6 without reading 5 and it’d still make sense. BUT, I wanted to still include it because of pacing, it slows it down a bit and I feel like it makes the scene less… urgent. By putting that panel where they both say hi, I feel like it gives the idea that Jordi isn’t rushing the following conversation, or at least not as much.
So, basically what I’m saying is that when creating these kind of visual stories,