Invasion page 1

Opening page from Invasion.

One thing I've been trying to do more and more during the time I've been working on Invasion is to break out of the tiny little panel boxes, doing more pages that are a single large panel. The results are the opening page, the plague of frogs, the signover of the kingdom, the banquet, the city in a ball and the last-but-one page of the epilogue. I'm not sure about the results in each case... I think some of these pages could have turned out better. But doing them this way has been very very liberating and I will be reminding myself to do more larger compositions from time to time and give special moments within each future storyline some more breathing room. It makes the process a lot more interesting and gives me more options for determining pacing and emphasis.

Colours by DFG.