How to TWP

How to TWP is the article where I'll give tips and anecdotes on how to build, write and draw The W.A.P.T.A.E. Project and its surroundings. Hope it's useful !

From words to image
When I write the story, I always have the images in my head. I always know where I want to put the camera in a scene, and I'm really thankful for that. Don't know who I should thank (maybe my mom), but thanks anyway.

So I have this sketchbook, where I sketch the pages in, that's filled with notes and instructions for the future me, like "bigger hand here", "pls do a nicer face I count on you", "shit" or "I LOVE YOU". But most of the time it's more like "copy paste".

When a page is sketched, I scan it and import it on Krita, my drawing software.

I start by lining (inking digitally) the sketches then rotate and resize every panel so that they fit all in the page. It's one of the longest steps when you're a perfectionist because you're never satisfied with your composition.

After that, I put some random colors on the characters and backgrounds just to select the areas then apply the definitive flat colours.

I then start adding shadows with a random dark colour, again it's only to delimitate the shadowed areas at first. Right after that, I can select a correct colour for my shadow.

Now's the time for texture and colour correction ! If there's a special type of floor or wall I'll put some texture on them, and whenever I feel like the characters don't belong to their environment (or the opposite), I'll adjust the colours by using a one colour layer.