ACT2 SCENE 2 ROUGH/ LAYOUTS

Act 2 Scene 2 was complicated at 25 pages long , in this scene so many things happen Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are asked by Claudius to watch over Hamlet, Polonius is confronted with a mad Hamlet , the Actors arrive at the castle and Hamlet starts to plan his revenge on Claudius.

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ACT 2 SCENE 1 LAYOUT/ROUGHS

Here we have Act 2 Scene 1 where Polonius is talking to a servant about his son Laertes who is in France , Ophelia turns up to tell her Father how worried she is over Hamlet's state of mind, simple 5 pages of storytelling ,note page 44 has Polonius walking out the panel this adds a extra design element to the page so makes the page look more interesting.

mid shots and close up's of faces and bodies are oftern used in comics for conversation panels as you can see by these pages i use this technique quite alot in this second act and scene.

SCENE 1 ACT 5 PAGE LAYOUTS

Scene 1 Act 5 has 10 pages of layouts ,
these where a lot more fun to design and draw, due to the fact it was all about Hamlet's Father his story his suffering and torment and death at the hands of Claudius.

i drew Lot's of close ups of  faces showing emotion to draw the reader in  ,especially of Hamlet's Father which i think work very well. it's the job of the artist to entertain the reader with visuals that can summon up an emotion while the reader reads the story again similar to a movie directors work with an actor for a movie.

As you will see i tilted the camera angles on some frames to add a dynamic to the pages , the characters capes flow in the night wind to look more dramatic ,

also light from different angles can also increase the dynamics of a page and scene such as panels 152 page 35 and 174 page 39.

page 41 the grid again has the first panel the whole height of the page that bleeds off the edges this works well to show the ghost in the underworld and Hamlet ,Horatio and Marcellus running up the castles stairs.

ACT 1 SCENE 4 ROUGHS/ LAYOUTS

So here we are with Scene 4 of the first act ,here Hamlet confronts his Fathers ghost with his friends Horatio and Marcellus.
notice i angled the frames and layouts askew as Hamlet tries to talk to his Fathers ghost, this was done to give the reader a feeling of the start of Hamlets fragile mind started to tip into madness and also add dynamics to the pages, again i played with camera angles to make the storytelling more dramatic .