Educational Strip

Firstly I made a start researching illustrated strips to get an idea of style and how to put one together since I've not done this before.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/nikijacksonart/comic-strips/





Spider Diagram:

I started with a spider diagram to think about the way boys and girls are differently affected by the onset of puberty.

I decided I wanted to take the boys view and illustrate a educational strip for them.

Ideas:
Since I am fairly new to comic style illustration and character design I decided to start with using reference images to practice drawing teenage boys.

I tried using different pens to see how it affected the character lines. 

I then decided to do a practice of what my strip might look like based on some of my reference images. I've not done anything like this before so I wanted to get a rough idea of the direction I might be going in.

I then started to think what kind of story I would tell and which angle I could go with, these are the options I came up with.

Character Development & Thumbnails:

I decided to go for a fairly simple story with a bit of a comedy slant. I wanted to aim my comic at teenage  boys and so went for a very sketchy look. Inspired by my favourite comic artists I tried to keep it quite loose and simple in design.

Mock Up:

Character Design for Front Cover

Educational Strip: