Graphic Novel

This task was handed to us during the 3rd term of 2014. The theme of it was a normal school day, but with a twist. The twist is that your main character has a superpower that you'll discover later on.

If you hear the word "Superpower," I'm sure that your first thoughts would be of Superman or Batman. I wanted to put a lot of effort into my topic, so I decided to stay away from the common thoughts and spend a long time on coming up with my idea.  

• My first idea was about a girl whom had the ability to teleport, but every time she did, her body got more and more damaged.

• My second idea entailed a guy who was normal in a place where everyone had abilities and if you were in that school, you had to have an ability of at least grade 1. No-one ever sees his ability until the end of the novel, where it is revealed to be something very useless. The ability to prevent heat from descending from an object.

After spending several days scanning through a large variety of ideas, I finally found the one that I was destined to draw. My superhero is going to have the ability to foresee death...

I found it difficult to start with my frames straight away and thus came to the conclusion of putting in an extra speech bubble, that explained the story line, introduces you to the characters and helps you to get into the correct atmosphere. 

The mediums that I used for this art piece was pencil (for the guide lines), pen and a sharpie. I used three different types of pens. The thicker black pen was a gel pen. The fine details were done through the usage of a black Bic pen. The red colouring was also done through the usage of a red Bic pen.