Episode 5 looks different from the rest of the episodes – a lot different. <\/p>\n
When I first started working on Petra’s Call, I fell into a trap that a lot of creators fall into – I kept rewriting and redrawing Episode 1. <\/p>\n
I would finish it, throw everything out and do it again because I had spotted a tiny flaw that apparently required a complete re-write. After spending two months working on Petra’s Call, I had 5 versions of Episode 1 at different levels of completion, but I hadn’t even thought about starting Episode 2. And for a comic that was supposed to put out one episode a week, that was a problem.<\/p>\n
My art, writing, Flash Skillz and understanding of the medium were always improving, so I always knew I could do better, so I kept going back and starting from scratch – because I knew I could do better. My wheels were spinning – I was doing a ton of work – on one episode. <\/p>\n
I had to start moving forward.
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\nI came up with a plan: I would complete 8 episodes, and then, with these episodes done, I would go back and redo the first 4 episodes and then move onto Episode 9. (the initial plan was 6 episodes complete and redo first 2, but pacing, staging and story demands broke up the first two bigger episodes into more episodes.)<\/p>\n
Another part of the plan was to do each episode in a completely different style until I found something I was comfortable with. <\/p>\n
Before Petra’s Call, I had barely used Photoshop at all. I had never digitally painted, colored and even sketched in Photoshop before. I knew I would learn a lot by doing the first round of episodes and playing around in each one.<\/p>\n
Episode 5 was an experiment in a combination of a loose painted\/sketched style with some cleaner animated style panels. In some places it really works and in others, it’s really weird. When it came time to decide whether I was going to redo the episode, I decided to leave it as-is and push forward. <\/p>\n
It’s a fun experiment and I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Episode 5 looks different from the rest of the episodes – a lot different. When I first started working on Petra’s Call, I fell into a trap that a lot of creators fall into – I kept rewriting and redrawing Episode 1. I would finish it, throw everything out and do it again because I … <\/p>\n