Midterm Critique

For my project, I decided to create a graphic novel, which is about a group of teenagers volunteering for an experiment that allows them to travel to an alternate universe. For the experiment, the characters are placed on a chair, wearing functional headpieces that are wired to a machine, allowing it to transfer the characters' conscious minds into a dream like, alternate reality. For the alternate universe, it resembles just like the real world, except the main characters have the ability to change and create what goes on in this new world. In other words, the alternate universe is designed specifically for them to fulfill anything they want or desire, without any restrictions.

I worked on four different storyboards, and each drawing represents a significant scene from each storyboard. The drawing on the top left shows a scene from the beginning of the story, the drawing on top right shows a scene of two friends interacting, the one on the bottom left shows a character taking part in an experiment, and the drawing on the bottom right shows another character, learning that the experiment worked. After drawing the scenes out in pencil, they were all traced out in ink.

Some of the characters presented in the four drawings resemble characters shown in the drawing shown above. They are all original characters and after making constant sketches of the same group of characters, it's fitting that I create a graphic novel or comic that focuses on them.

As for moving forward, I hoped to make a total of eight or even ten comic book panels. The rest of the panels would focus on the rest of the story, consisting of how the main characters adapt to their new universe, them enjoying life in this new world for them, and them learning the consequences of staying too long in the alternate universe, where they slowly lose their grip on reality. I'm hoping to at least fit in five or four more panels that summarized the rest of the story.