Jaguar, page thirteen

New page of Jaguar.

Pacing is important to me in this. If a journey or conversation is started, it should take time. I don't want teleporting between scenes if I can help it.

I'm becoming aware that I'm the only one who thinks this however...

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Jaguar, page twelve

Jaguar continues, and we start a journey.

The major writing, framing and pacing influences on me whilst working on Jaguar were European New Wave Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, and this journey is one example of that I guess. There's a scene in Godard's Breathless when Michel and Patricia are having a conversation whilst driving around Paris. The background's constantly shifting and doesn't have the same continuity as the conversation itself. It shifts around, goes backwards and forwards, and I think it's because Godard is trying to get over a feeling of the fluid ebb and flow of a real chat. Bits we remember are out of order. We go back to things we said earlier. We jump ahead.

This attempt to get some sort of feel of a real conversation is really what I'm experimenting with here, just to see if I can do it, and to see if it'll work.

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Jaguar, page eleven

New page!

It's a little late as I'm very, very busy with some glittery show stuff at the moment...

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Jaguar, page ten

Here's The start of Chapter Two. This is something of a small first for me, as it includes a sound effect. I've never used one before, and it still looks a little odd to me. May take it off later...

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Jaguar, Chapter Two

This is the title plate for chapter two of Jaguar.

The whole story is split into short 'chapters', with each one showing a shift in either time of space (or both) I guess. Really it's just a way for me to break the story down into manageable chunks.

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Jaguar, page eight

Page eight.

My original plan for this page was a much bloodier affair. Indeed, I'd written, thumbnailed and sketched it out that way, but I found it just looked way too much like some sort of violent horror-porn. Luckilly I know Dale Mettam, who is, like, a proper writer and everything, and something he and I had worked on together offered a way out.

So here's page eight, and we see the aftermath of the horror, rather than the horror itself, which to my mind works a lot better.

Thanks Dale!

All MangaStudio. I'm really trying to 'paint' these in MS rather than conventially pencil them.

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Jaguar, page 07

Here's the latest page for Jaguar.

I'm still trying to get out ahead of schedule as May is looking so busy...

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