Assignment 3 draft

Friday, October 11, 2013

not sure why it appears so dark here o.o

basically I wanted to have 2 parallel contrasting stories showing how alone is like the inescapable ending for all people no matter what they do. you can be super ultra introvert and look at all the popular kids with 324324927 friends who love them and then envy them for it, then feel lonely because you have no friends. or you could be that super ultra popular kid who has 324324927 friends but feels lonely anyway because all those "friendships" are shallow. people have their own lives; people are made selfish. no one will stick around in your life for long. they have their own lives, and ultimately in this long road of life, we have to walk it alone. no one will walk it for us, neither will they walk with us through it. everyone has their own road to walk, alone.

tl;dr? just my thoughts on life so far. it has been the result of all the accumulated "deep thinking" I've done everytime I was down. It made me realise that the only person we have, and can trust is ourselves.

okay but I guess intriguing ideas won't show with bad expression. so I probably have to make quite a lot of changes to this

1. Make it look/feel not-branched. my intention was not so much of letting the reader choose one path out of the 2, but more of emphasizing that these paths could go in very different directions but ultimately lead to the same thing. I didnt want them to lead to the same panel because they were different people with different lives, just the same ending. the class suggestion was to make it circular and end both with the same panel. however Vincent also gave me another idea, which was to branch them downwards side by side so readers can see both sides together but still know that they are separate sub-stories. I think I will try that instead :D it feels like it would better fit what I'm going for
2. Change style. I guess this is a personal preference. But something just doesn't feel right about it so I will be....REDRAWING EVERYTHING YAY
3. and since I'm redoing I might as well add narratives. I was thinking maybe if I show the characters reflecting about their life in their heads it might better portray the feelings of solitude and dejectedness~~ and might also be more relatable to.

that's all I guess.  and maybe add more panels so it has more of a story than just a bunch of pictures.

I stayed up till 2:08 AM to do this