This is the "thought line" that anchored the idea, which I came up with after going on a JE apple-picking excursion and pondering what I got out of the experience.The dialogue reflecting on the experience as a potential blog post was a reference to a similar journey of discovery. A note on the format: a circled H means "the following note is a Herald idea."
Onward!
The next page shows the last of the thought line, followed by an entry a little later: the pre-rough draft.I shifted to a new title, "I love autumn," because I was aiming for pure romance. But almost everything went through a tweak before we went to press.
In fact, a little later, after I had drawn the penciled pre-rough, I penned in an alternate, choose-your-own-adventure sort of ending. The vague little symbols gave me shorthand on my new direction: the top frame's heart notes the good ending; the frown, the bad.
After deciding to ditch my ode to autumn romance, I headed off to do my real rough draft.
This rough's pretty scarce, since I had such a clear picture in my head. A significant change before the final is the trail of mini-frames leading from Hero to the fork in his road.
And here's our final draft! We've gone for a cooler pose in the final two alterna-frames, added that lead-up series of frames, and thrown in foliage.
The apples were delicious, by the way.
Ok, see YOU! Friday.
Reuxben
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