EXERCISE 2 : Meeting   "Application exercise based on the divisions of the panel of a comic page, les vignettes, the views and the camera position, the characters design. The theme of the meet can be treated in any way, from the simple meet between characters to the fantastic, symbolical, extraordinary meet. This is a meet of characters or animals, linked to a discovery, an appointment, an activity, a game, a fight, an association." "The page contains at least four panels: A panel will be a full or main view showing the place of the meet and the action. A panel will be a middle view showing a character of the event. A panel will be a big view of one of the characters A panel will show the characters of the meet."   "About camera positions: One in a diving position (top to bottom). One in a diving position but in the other way (bottom to top). The other positions are ordinary or subjective. You may use a focal, oblique or emotional position." "The size of the work is 42 x 29,7cm with manipulation margins of 2cm. The technique is Indian ink, black and white." ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

Personal comments So here’s my work for the second exercises of my comics course: the meet between Hardy Pothole an apprentice in the “Hog’s Wart’s wizard school” having his exams, and the Master of the test #27. I wanted to create an unique universe based upon two existing ones: the kids wizards à la Harry Potter, and the little boy scout that usually pass some tests in the wood (and this explains why Hardy Pothole have a scarf and a pair of shorts). I like the final result because the characters are lovely, and adding the textures allowed avoiding the huge presence of white areas, like my previous comic. The sky, however, could be better done, and some textures on the characters would have been welcome. This little story would be improved if we were allowed to make two pages, but the directions said it’s one page only: so I had to compress all the texts, the panels, the useful pieces of information…in this page. Finally, it wasn’t necessary to make a full story with a beginning and a final end: it was allowed to make a part of a story, so it’s normal that we’d never know how Hardy Pothole will manage to pass this test #27)