[DAY 5] [DEVELOPMENT] Textures and Drawing Style

For my comic, I wanted to have the same sort of style as Nawlz. Nawlz, the interactive comic, is a perfect example of a dark and dusky style. There may be a lot of colours used in it, but the textures say otherwise. What I have noticed about Nawlz is that it's quite detailed, but sketchy and quickly done to give that traditional edge.

First Panel of Nawlz.

I love this style because it gives feeling and beauty to images in a traditional and gorgeous manner. The use of colours shows the feeling of the place, and the distance of objects and buildings. The buildings are made from photo's themselves, however the characters are hand drawn. The texture differs in different places, with all the stock images dotted around, it's sometimes hard to tell the textures and details that are hidden in the panels, until you look close enough.
The text is styled like how a computer command center displays content and information. This is a gorgeous touch, and I felt gave feeling to the piece.

My textures

Examining the Nawlz take on texture and perspective, I decided to make my own texture and sketches for my comic. I waltzed around the rooms of my house, and outside to collect textures that were lying around which would fit into my comic. 

Brick Texture is the first texture I took. It wasn't really the texture I was looking for, for my comic, but the lumps and bumps it had on the brick itself was absolutely gorgeous, and I thought would be useful for some point in the comic.

Concrete Texture was taken from the garden shed. The colour turned into a yellow haze, but the lumps and bumps were perfect for a rough texture (like the brick), if it was ever needed for the comic.

Cork Texture is indeed an interesting texture. I fell in love with it so much, the colours that were optional in the cork really stood out, and would give great feel to my comic. However, the colour itself, was not how I wanted it to be. 

Fabric Texture came from the oven mittens. This gorgeous thread was a second option to be placed as clothing on top of both characters, through out each scene, but was scrapped as it didn't really fit with anything, and over complicated images.

Marble Texture is possibly my most favourite texture out of all of these textures. Not only does it fit the criteria of my comic, but I really like the colours and different mediums inside the image which really makes it work.

Rust Texture may be used for a colour reason at some points of a story. It has a gorgeous colour tone, splashed with oranges, reds and blacks, which gives a scary, dark look. This is what I want my comic to express to readers.

Stone Texture, possibly my least favourite out of the textures. It has too much depth, so when I added it to the image, it seem to ruin the image I was trying to create.

Tin Foil gave a crumpled a look. Quite good for a paper based comic, but unfortunately not what I wanted. It gave quite a good texture, though, and would be considered for other jobs.